Calli Ross tends to her disabled 8-year-old son, Tensy, after watching the Oregon Senate in the Capitol on Friday, June 23, 2023. Having a disability can qualify children for Medicaid.
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BEN BOTKIN/OREGON CAPITOL CHRONICLE
State health officials are checking to see whether kids in the state have been wrongly kicked off the free health care as they have been elsewhere
Oct 4, 2023
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Senate Majority Leader Kate Lieber, D-Beaverton, and Minority Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend, work together in the Senate Committee on Rules on Thursday, June 15, 2023. They will both be on the new Joint Interim Committee on Addiction and Community Safety Response.
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BEN BOTKIN/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE
The number of Oregonians infected with COVID has steadily increased since late spring, and the number of people infected with the flu and RSV is low but expected to rise
Sep 26, 2023
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Cannabis at Sol Sisters Farms in Oregon. The state legalized recreational use of marijuana in 2015.
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OREGON DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Patty Murray of Washington and Rep. Sara Jacobs of California spearheaded the letter to the Health and Human Services secretary
Jul 25, 2023
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Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland, Ore.
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COURTESY PLANNED PARENTHOOD