State Audit Finds Unexplained Gaps In Children’s Mental Health Care (OPB, 5/25/2012) Children’s mental health : ensuring access and sustaining services [PDF] (2012) Oregon Office of the Secretary of State, Audits Division
Entries from May 29th, 2012
Children’s mental health audit
May 29th, 2012 · Comments Off · Audits Division
Tags:audits·mental health·mental health for low-income children
School energy savings
May 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Audits Division
Oregon auditors find schools missed out on $40 million worth of energy savings (Oregonian, 5/22/2012) Senate Bill 1149 energy surcharge : unrealized savings on energy and school utility costs [PDF] (2012), Oregon Office of the Secretary of State, Audits Division
Tags:energy efficiency·schools
Economic and revenue forecast
May 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Dept. of Administrative Services
Oregon economy slowly on the rise, but state budget stays put (Oregonian, 5/22/2012) Columbia River area leads state’s economic recovery (Statesman Journal, 5/22/2012) Oregon economic and revenue forecast [PDF] (quarterly), Oregon Department of Administrative Services, Office of Economic Analysis
Summer road construction plan
May 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Dept. of Transportation
Oregon Zoo’s pregnant elephant makes ODOT’s busy road construction season a little wilder (Oregonian, 5/22/2012) 2012 northwest Oregon construction map [PDF] (2012) Oregon Department of Transportation
Tags:elephants·Oregon Zoo·road construction·road maintenance·road repair·transportation
Portland air pollution
May 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Dept. of Environmental Quality
Portland air pollution activists expand their campaign statewide (Oregonian, 5/21/2012) Portland Air Toxics Solutions committee report and recommendations [PDF] (2012) Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Cornelius Pass Road safety
May 21st, 2012 · Comments Off · Dept. of Transportation
Scappoose family turns grief into political action, secures state money to improve dangerous road (Oregonian, 5/18/2012) Cornelius Pass Road safety evaluation JTA final report [PDF] (2011) Oregon Department of Transportation
Tags:Cornelius Pass Road·motor vehicle crashes·traffic fatalities·traffic safety
Oregon overweight, obesity, physical activity and nutrition facts
May 21st, 2012 · Comments Off · Oregon Health Authority
Medical cost of obesity in Oregon: $1.6 billion a year (Oregonian, 5/16/2012) State report puts dollar figure on Oregon’s obesity epidemic (Portland Tribune, 5/17/2012) Oregon overweight, obesity, physical activity and nutrition facts [PDF] (2012) Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division
Tags:exercise·nutrition·obesity·overweight·physical activitiy
Unemployment rate
May 17th, 2012 · Comments Off · Employment Department
Oregon unemployment slips to 8.5 percent in April as jobs increase and summer hiring looks up (Oregonian, 5/15/2012) Oregon jobless rate dips to 8.5% (Register Guard, 5/15/2012) Oregon’s employment situation [PDF] (monthly serial), Oregon Employment Department. Worksource Oregon
Celebrating Student Success
May 14th, 2012 · Comments Off · Dept. of Transportation
State honors pair of Keizer schools (Statesman Journal, 5/13/2012) Celebrating student success schools [pdf] (annual) Oregon Department of Education
Zebra and quagga mussels
May 14th, 2012 · Comments Off · Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
Officials find invasive species (Statesman Journal, 5/11/2012) Boat Inspections Yield Results (OPB, 5/11/2012) Quagga mussel and zebra mussel [PDF] (2010) Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Destructive quagga and zebra mussels threaten Oregon [PDF] (2011)
Osprey nest removal
May 11th, 2012 · Comments Off · Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
The U of O vs. an osprey nest (Statesman Journal,5/8/2012) Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) [PDF] (2010) Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Oregon nonprofit sector
May 11th, 2012 · Comments Off · Portland State University
Oregon’s nonprofits are a $13 billion industry, according to first ever study of the sector (Oregonian, 5/8/2012) Oregon nonprofit sector report : the state of the nonprofit sector in Oregon [PDF] (2012) Portland State University
Salem River Crossing Project
May 7th, 2012 · Comments Off · Dept. of Transportation
Public invited to give input on third bridge across Willamette at open house (Statesman Journal, 5/6/2012) Salem River Crossing Project draft environmental impact statement [PDF] (2012) Oregon Department of Transportation
Killing cormorants to protect salmon
May 1st, 2012 · Comments Off · Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
State asks to kill salmon-eating cormorants (Register Guard, 4/27/2012) Avian predation management on the Oregon coast [PDF] (2010) Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Government Waste Hotline reports
May 1st, 2012 · Comments Off · Secretary of State
State auditors questioned nearly $8 million in public funds in 2011: Oregon Politics Roundup (Oregonian, 4/26/2012) Government Waste Hotline [PDF] (annual) Oregon Office of the Secretary of State
