Alex Baumhardt
Oregon Capital ChronicleAlex Baumhardt is a JPR content partner from the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Before that Alex was a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and from Minnesota and Oregon for The Washington Post.
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Colleges and universities in Oregon and California can no longer allow students without permanent legal status access to some federally funded programs meant to help disadvantaged students earn degrees, according to a recent decision from the U.S. Department of Education. -
The decision ends a decade-long fight led by 11 young Oregonians and 10 of their peers across the nation against the U.S. government over climate inaction. -
Flooding and landslides from swollen rivers and record-setting rain in southern Oregon and parts of the Willamette Valley have caused millions of dollars in damages and cost one woman her life. -
Oregon and California are among a group of states that recently achieved a collective goal of shifting new car buyers toward electric rather than gas-powered vehicles in an effort to reduce pollution and combat climate change. -
The Northwest鈥檚 largest hydropower supplier announced it intends to join a new day-ahead energy market based in Arkansas over one based in California. -
Following a bumpy few months for the Oregon Department of Forestry and the abrupt resignation of its leader, Kotek wants to pick the next state forester. -
Democratic and Republican U.S. legislators from Western states are joining forces to get the 20-years-old Secure Rural Schools bill reauthorized. -
Kotek directed the state forestry department to pause any further action based on the map until the Legislature decides to keep, update or repeal it. -
Over the past few years, the Oregon Legislature has responded to industry-wide labor shortages in manufacturing, tech and health care by directing millions of dollars to workforce development programs. Now, education advocates say it should do the same for child care and preschool teachers. -
The Ashland lawmaker wants the map to designate the risk level of broad areas rather than naming the risk of individual properties. -
Oregon is in the bottom half of states in reading and math scores among fourth and eighth graders in the 鈥渘ation鈥檚 report card.鈥� -
Officials say they are prepared for potentially volatile federal policies and funding under the Trump administration.
