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Clockwise from front left: Sophomores Madison Cailteux, Kaden Davis Young, Samuel Stanley, Jack Von Ammon and Pearl Carter participate in cooperative learning during science class at South Eugene High School on Dec. 11, 2023. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

Letter from the Editor: On impact and the power of bearing witness

The effects of good journalism may not be immediate. But it does make a difference.
Dec 18, 2025
David Farley, left, attends his arraignment from jail while his attorneys present in-person at the Clackamas County Courthouse on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025 in Oregon City, Ore. | SASKIA HATVANY/OPB

Ex-West Linn doctor charged with five more sexual abuse crimes

David Farley now faces 16 counts related to the sexual abuse of his patients
Dec 18, 2025
A Utah plastic surgeon, Dr. Kirk Moore, admits he distributed falsified COVID-19 vaccine cards and discarded government-supplied doses.
A Utah plastic surgeon, Dr. Kirk Moore, admits he distributed falsified COVID-19 vaccine cards and threw away government-supplied doses. “All of that stuff is true,” he said. | FRANCISCO KJOLSETH|THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Pam Bondi dismissed charges against a surgeon who falsified vaccine cards. That emboldened others with similar cases

After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Utah Sen. Mike Lee highlighted the doctor's prosecution on vaccine falsification charges, the attorney general thanked them and ordered the charges dropped
Dec 18, 2025
CMH hospital in Astoria, Ore., is building a tsunami evacuation facility into its $300 million expansion.
Construction crews broke ground on a new building for Columbia Memorial Hospital in fall 2024. The new facility is budgeted at $300 million and will include a rooftop refuge to withstand a tsunami, accommodating up to 1,9 00 people . | HANNAH NORMAN | KFF HEALTH NEWS

Astoria hospital races to build a tsunami shelter as FEMA fights to cut its funding

First, the federal agency issued a $14 million resilience grant to CMH in Astoria, then, under the second Trump administration, it rescinded it. Now a judge has ruled that it was illegal for the agency to cut the resilience program without congressional consent.
Dec 18, 2025
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Oregon prison health care changes underway

Years of scandal and inadequate care are giving way to modernizing and efficiencies, officials say, but there's a lot yet to be done
Dec 16, 2025
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Legacy Health Good Samaritan Medical Center in Northwest Portland, Ore., on July 30, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Federal mediation begins amid Legacy Health labor strife

As advanced practice providers continue to strike at Legacy, both sides have agreed to participate in talks with a federal mediator despite accusing each other of public misinformation — including about a baseball bat
Dec 16, 2025
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