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Kathleen Merrigan

...I hired Deborah Kane from Ecotrust in Oregon to come in and lead a farm-to-schoo...

Samantha Tubman

...remember the event in Portland, Oregon . We'd done this OTR in an ice crea...

Lindsay Early

...Welfare Association, here in Portland, Oregon . Our organization is focused o...

Eric Waldo

...in Texas, but suddenly you move to Oregon and you have to get recredentialed an...

Tyler Lechtenberg

...life was like. So I moved to Portland, Oregon , because I had some cousins out there...

Fiona Reeves

...were a couple call centers based out in Oregon that were completely devoted to ou...

Jim Obergefell

...came from Senator Jeff Merkley in Oregon . As his team told me—and I forget i...

Jim Houser and Helen Dally

...automobile repair shop in Portland, Oregon —in 1983. Through the shop an...
...and Entrepreneurship, has served on the Oregon Individual and Employer Consume...
...of the Main Street Alliance [MSA] of Oregon . For our conversation today, Mr...
... In Portland. In Portland, Oregon . And I'm in my home in Amagansett...
...lost the lease. It was an old State of Oregon Motor Pool building. Motor Pool wante...

...kind of a down period in the economy in Oregon , so we kind of made out—very fortunat...
...was a major part of it. The State of Oregon also, at that time, had been talkin...
...was doing in their state. So Oregon had some active legislation and activ...
...and I became involved. Actually, Oregon was the first state chapter of Mai...
...Then, locally, I started going to the Oregon Health Policy Board meetings—hey're th...
...the organization that administers the Oregon Health Authority, our version o...
...of Medicaid, which is called the Oregon Health Plan, which is very forwar...
...that whatever came up in the state of Oregon also had consideration about smal...
...on creating the marketplace here in Oregon , which became Cover Oregon. I wa...
...here in Oregon, which became Cover Oregon . I was selected to be on the advisor...
...to the board of directors for Cover Oregon , which was our ACA state affiliate...
...Then, when that was handed over to the Oregon Insurance Division, I, since the demis...
...Division, I, since the demise of Cover Oregon , have been on the advisor...
...to both the Insurance Division and the Oregon Health Authority. So I've continued t...
...from? Maybe it's just because I'm in Oregon , where things are pretty liberal...
...step. We had a terrible example here in Oregon , where the State of Oregon contracte...
...here in Oregon, where the State of Oregon contracted with Oracle to build th...
...the software, for what was called Cover Oregon . As it turns out, Oracle lied. W...
...We had this opportunity with Cover Oregon that was really a gold standard for ho...
...her job and the administrators of Cover Oregon hadn't monitored her activities well...
...formed a state Main Street Alliance of Oregon , so that was the vehicle; that was ho...
...changed, what can we do in Oregon to move the needle to take advantage o...
...the exchange—what was at one time Cover Oregon and then became the state Healt...
...the president. You go back to Portland, Oregon . You're still running your business...
...activity, it was with the State of Oregon , because I was on these variou...
...the states to do different things that Oregon already wanted to do. So there wer...
...this, were the people in the state of Oregon , at the governor's office. Ou...
...and I had the project with the State of Oregon . So it was probably two months t...
...of things. We have some buildings in Oregon that are a hundred years old. This is ...
...a small businessman from Portland, Oregon .” So, President Obama comes in, the...
...who, when it came up, Portland, Oregon —the people who called me were people ...
...environmental issues with the State of Oregon , with the Department of Environmenta...
...Committee in DC representing Region X. Oregon is in Region X, which is Alaska...
...Oregon is in Region X, which is Alaska, Oregon , Washington, and I think Idaho. SB...
...are necessary to take the next step. Oregon —like I said, they've been very active...
...and paid family leave. Oh, yes. Oregon now has paid sick leave. Oregon ha...
...yes. Oregon now has paid sick leave. Oregon has paid family and medical leave tha...
...account on the part of the employee. Oregon is the first one that has also th...
...that. We've been very successful in Oregon . We have a very good minimum wage la...

Geraldine Richmond

...greenhouse outside my house in Eugene, Oregon . And I'm in my home in Amagansett...
...they want a bigger world, or Eugene, Oregon , they want a bigger world, and s...
...of higher education for the state of Oregon . It was a governor's appointment t...

Donald Molloy

...in his adulthood. He worked in Oregon , California, Utah, Montana, Idaho, an...
...two people, a young woman from Oregon and her boyfriend. She was married, ha...
...So I called a friend who was a judge in Oregon , Mike Hogan, and I said, “Do you wan...
...an opinion about the horned owl in Oregon that sort of created the question. An...

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