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A workgroup last week moved toward consensus on the easier lifts -- including putting caps on overtime for some workers and the amount of time that can be claimed for travel. But the state is uniquely impacted by a Department of Labor decision that it must pay overtime by its dependence on live-in caregivers compared to other states, and no solution has yet arisen that will fairly compensate caregivers while not driving up costs to the program.

The author, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, suggests that Breast Cancer Awareness Month merely not only belittles what people actually go through, but is a big cash cow.

High school students are planting the seeds of healthy eating.

The Cover Oregon board voted to cancel its November meeting and appears ready to hand over the keys to the insurance exchange to legislators, who have vowed to fold the remaining state insurance exchange functions into the Insurance Division or the Oregon Health Authority.

Makers of Glade become the first major consumer product company to list product-specific fragrance ingredients.