Legislators Consolidate Power, Cash, in Partially Invisible Cycle of Giving to Each Other
by Cooper Green An investigation into Oregon’s campaign finance laws and the financial transactions known as “pass-throughs.”
Nothing to See Here
Kenny Jacoby and Morgan Theophil | As a follow-up to the Criminalizing Homelessness story, this report considers the role of the mayor and City Council in helping to make police records available and in mitigating homelessness.
Courting the Ones Who Need It
by Kaylee Tornay and Brittany Norton with additional reporting by Sam Felton and Natalia Riccardi The Eugene Community Court seeks to support rather than sentence. Eugene city and court officials decided to implement this program to support frequent offenders with their…
Criminalizing Homelessness
by Kenny Jacoby, Kaylee Tornay, Francisca Benitez, Victoria Ganahl and Thomas Rivers This data-driven story shows that the unhoused are disproportionately ticketed in Eugene.
A System of Neglect
by Kelly Kenoyer, Kenny Jacoby This story revealed abuses in senior care facilitates across Oregon and gaps in the state’s regulation, including small civil penalties for serious cases of abuse and neglect.
2016 Solutions Issue of OR Magazine
2016 OR Magazine team, led by editor Sami Edge The 2016 issue of OR Magazine uses a solutions journalism approach to report on issues and how Oregon is working to address those issues.
DEQ Has Oregon in Hot, Dirty Water
by Carl Segerstrom, Katherine Smith and Erin Carey The reporters discovered that the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality was years — and sometimes — decades behind in renewing water pollution permits granted to major companies and municipal sewer agencies. The result:…
Putting Oregon’s Records Law to the Test
by Kira Hoffelmeyer and Russell Wilson This story examined the weaknesses of Oregon’s public records law using an innovative approach. The reporters asked for all the emails among members of the Attorney General’s Public Records Task Force, which by then had…
Tackling Teen Pregnancy
by Corinne Ellis During the past seven years Oregon has put in motion a plan to reduce teen pregnancy and improve the quality of sexual health education in public schools. This plan was introduced in 2009 as a concept of…
Taxpayer-Subsidized Biogas Plant Underperforms, Asks for Massive Tax Break
by Wes Franco and Jonathan Bach The students’ examination of deadbeat taxpayers in Lane County revealed a company that had received millions in state tax subsidies but now was refusing to pay its property tax bill. The students used land records…