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A $1 billion budget deficit looms, according to gubernatorial candidate Dennis Richardson.

The Oregon Employment Department expects the state to have 28,600 job openings for nurses over the next 10 years while only graduating 16,000 registered nurses.

Yet ex-CEO Robert Pallari, who resigned in 2005, received $6.3 million in fiscal 2012, according to documents obtained from the Oregon Department of Justice

Political organizers for the Service Employees International Union are taking five sweeping measures directly to the voters after years of the Legislature thwarting their efforts in favor of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. Meanwhile, the Office of the Inspector General is wading into hospital executive compensation.

Note: Due to an error in a handout outlining the investments, the original headline was wrong. The actual figure is $56 million, not $353 million. With the state under pressure to reform and improve its mental health system from the federal government, the state director of the Addictions and Mental Health Division, Pam Martin, told legislators about a long list of investments the state has made across the state.