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Sen. Wyden says he’ll use most powerful Senate committee to undo Republican cuts

(Oregon Capitol Chronicle) -- Oregon’s senior U.S. senator and Democrats holding a new majority in Congress in January will immediately try to undo work requirements and cuts to Medicaid passed by Congressional Republicans in 2025 that are set to take effect Jan. 1. When the new Congress begins in January, Sen. Ron…

Low-level arrests are rising despite national crime declines

Arrests for low-level offenses, including vagrancy and drug possession, increased nationwide in 2025, even as violent crime continued to decline, according to a new analysis of federal data. The analysis, which was released in late October by the criminal justice advocacy organization FWD.us, found that arrests for…

States push short-term insurance as healthcare costs climb

Earlier this year, Madison Harden-Stein and her colleagues at the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms posed as consumers interested in buying insurance as part of a secret shopper study. They found that insurance brokers and sales representatives often pushed short-term health insurance plans with…