Virginia Medicaid: How to check if you’re still enrolled
(Stock photo by Rochelle Hartman sourced through WikiMedia Commons.) Virginia Medicaid is in the process of reviewing if the 2 million...
D.C. phases out its COVID-era hotel housing program for homeless people
At the start of the pandemic, we were all urged to stay at home and avoid crowds. But for homeless people, packed shelters made COVID...
Cash-strapped health care facilities work to stave off projected spike in heart disease
Heart disease is America’s biggest killer. For more than 100 years, the cluster of conditions that commonly lead to heart attack and...
Photographer documents immigration and life inside detention facility
PBS NewsHour - U.S. authorities reported that there have been more than two million apprehensions at the southern border in the last...
U.S. military focuses recruiting efforts on video-game playing teenagers
PBS NewsHour - The U.S. Military is intensifying its efforts to meet young people where they spend their time: online and on their...
Long-term effects of Oregon’s early COVID-19 response
Black and Indigenous Oregonians have been infected, hospitalized and killed by COVID-19 at rates about two-to-three times higher than...
Why are COVID tests and vaccines still so hard to find?
Appointments for COVID-19 tests and vaccines are increasingly difficult to find in Portland amid the omicron variant’s arrival in Oregon...
Salem man held in jail 'on the idea of future crimes he might commit'
A 27-year-old Salem man with a developmental disability and mental illness has been held in the Marion County Jail for more than two...
Despite court orders, 16 held in jail rather than Oregon State Hospital
Despite court orders, 16 people found guilty except for insanity in Oregon are being held in jail rather than transferred to the Oregon...
Militant Measures 3/3: When militance works in housing activism
Spurred by deepening housing, homelessness and gentrification crises, a nationwide wave of militant housing activism is growing as its...