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Healthcare officials are considering options should Hillsboro's only school-based health clinic be forced to close next year due to lack of funding.
"Failure to publish legitimate news" was the headline of an editorial in a January 1943 edition of the Seaside Signal. The headline came after reports from Portland that "that's where they shoot people on the beach." The report came after a report from the Army and the FBI that a man had been founded mortally wounded on the beach by a sentry "after an exchange of shots."
Democratic Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici talks one-on-one with KATU's Debora Knapp about the latest turmoil in Washington D.C., the fractured Republican party, the GOP tax plan, controversial actions by ICE agents in her district, and more.
Watch the full interview above.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Dist.1, on Tuesday announced that "I Am Not Invisible"— a powerful exhibit featuring the stories and contributions of Oregon's women veterans — has arrived in Washington, D.C. It will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol through Thursday.
Three U.S. representatives from Oregon are calling for congressional hearings to investigate Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after two controversial arrests by federal immigration agents within a month heightened concerns that the agency may be violating the law.
U.S. Reps. Suzanne Bonamici and Earl Blumenauer want to hear from the horse's mouth why a U.S. citizen was questioned by immigration officials near the Washington County Courthouse last month.
Bonamici and Blumenauer sent a second letter to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Oct. 20, detailing their concerns over two incidents involving ICE agents.
Both of Oregon's senators have demanded an explanation after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in plain clothes entered a home in Portland without a warrant and arrested a man who was later released.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should investigate possible insider trading of shares of student loan company Navient Corp., Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Representative Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon, said Monday in a letter to the agency chairman, Jay Clayton.
Columbia County's Emergency Operations Center has added enhanced capabilities to its operations with the purchase of three portable communications units. Columbia County is the first jurisdiction in the state of Oregon to employ such devices.
Federal immigration officials say agents did identify themselves and showed their badges before questioning a U.S. citizen outside the Washington County Courthouse in Hillsboro last month.