Tag: Oregon

Beltway Confidential

Cover Oregon pulled its hipster ads before they were cool

Ashe Schow · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

Dr. Bruce Goldberg, acting head of Oregon's troubled health insurance exchange, prepares for a news conference on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, at Cover Oregon's headquarters in Durham, Ore. Goldberg told reporters that thousands of Oregonians who sent in their applications by the deadline may have to go elsewhere for temporary coverage in January. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)

Cover Oregon looks at extending deadline

Washington Examiner · December 13, 2013 5:00 am

As the U.S. Supreme Court weighed the constitutionality of a contraception coverage mandate Tuesday morning, a federal appeals court heard a separate legal challenge that could have much more sweeping implications for the future of President Obama's health care law. (Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Oregon signs up just 44 people for Obamacare despite spending $300 million

Philip Klein · December 11, 2013 5:00 am

Last summer, irrigation water was shut off to hundreds of upper basin ranches after the Klamath Tribes exercised newly acquired water rights to protect fish in rivers running through former reservation lands. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Task force wrapping up work on Klamath water deal

Associated Press · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

Oregonian: Demand for food stamps, welfare dips slightly in Oregon to lowest levels in nearly two years

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2013 file photo, Cover Oregon executive director Rocky King speaks during the rollout of Oregon's health insurance exchange in Portland, Ore. With all the problems facing the rollout of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, nowhere is the situation worse or more surprising than in Oregon, a progressive state that has enthusiastically embraced the federal law but has so far failed to enroll a single person in coverage through Cover Oregon. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Once a leader, Oregon exchange struggles

Jonathan Cooper · November 18, 2013 5:00 am

Dem. Rep.: ‘I Think the President Was Grossly Misleading to the American Public’

Daniel Halper · November 12, 2013 2:02 pm

The Cocaine Commissioner

Ethan Epstein · November 11, 2013 6:59 pm

BPA acting administrator promises to fix problems

Associated Press · November 4, 2013 5:00 am

In this undated photo, Erika Orchard, a volunteer at Portland's Northeast Emergency Food Program, helps guide people through the pantry in Portland, Ore. Orchards has helped at the pantry for six years. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Ryan Kost)

Cuts in food stamps worry Oregon’s poor

Washington Examiner · November 3, 2013 4:00 am

This undated photo from the Bonneville Power Administration shows Elliot Mainzer, who has been named acting administrator of the federal power marketing agency for the Northwest. The Department of Energy named Mainzer to replace BPA administrator Bill Drummond after receiving an inspector general's report on allegations that BPA did not properly apply hiring preferences for veterans, and that mangers may have retaliated against employees who cooperated with the investigation. (AP Photo/Bonneville Power Administration)

Energy and Environment

Bonneville Power Administration acting chief promises to fix problems

Washington Examiner · November 3, 2013 4:00 am

Cover Oregon woes could mean delays for sickest

Associated Press · October 29, 2013 4:00 am