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Source Weekly Publisher Aaron Switzer chats with Emerson Levy, freshman Oregon House of Representative for District 53, about the new Alyssa’s Law which includes funding for all Oregon schools to install panic alarm systems to alert first responders to all types of emergencies to keep schools safer.

Levy also talks about why she loves her job, the feedback she gets from her District 53 constituents and about a trip to Denmark to learn more about renewable energy resources.

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This article appears in Source Weekly September 7, 2023.

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LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Oregon District 53 Representative Emerson Levy 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
September 14, 2023

<h1>LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Oregon District 53 Representative Emerson Levy 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />September 14, 2023</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">S</span>ource Weekly Publisher Aaron Switzer chats with Emerson Levy, freshman Oregon House of Representative for District 53, about the new Alyssa's Law which includes funding for all Oregon schools to install panic alarm systems to alert first responders to all types of emergencies to keep schools safer. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/the_source_-_bend_don_t_break_090723.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/the_source_-_bend_don_t_break_090723.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-50750" /></a></figure> </p> <p>Levy also talks about why she loves her job, the feedback she gets from her District 53 constituents and about a trip to Denmark to learn more about renewable energy resources.</p> <p><b>Listen now: </b> </p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/bend-dont-break-oregon-district-53-representative-emerson-levy" title="Bend Don&#x27;t Break: Oregon District 53 Representative Emerson Levy" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Bend Don&#x27;t Break: Oregon District 53 Representative Emerson Levy</a></div> </p></div> </p> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-bend-dont-break-oregon-district-53-representative-emerson-levy-19821752/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=50746&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-bend-dont-break-oregon-district-53-representative-emerson-levy-19821752/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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