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Improving Infrastructure

Preserving Public Safety

Promoting Responsible Government

Protecting Natural Resources

Saving Money

Chronological Index

• Cultural Trust grantee jumps into Woodburn High School fire recovery effort
• Online quiz tests auto insurance knowledge 
• Insurance Division helps consumers locate missing life policies
• State Police Fish & Wildlife "2011 Team of the Year" 
• Healthy Kids - a new health coverage program for uninsured kids

• Stimulus funds at work in Clackamas County
• Oregon stimulus funds at work in Grant County
• Oregon Lottery helps produce plywood & paychecks in Rogue River
• 2011 ODOT summer road construction map now online
• Gorge 25 effort wins 2011 Oregon Tourism and Hospitality award
• 2011 Ag Progress Awards dinner 
• Economic link restored between southern Oregon coast and Willamette Valley
• The new Oregon Blue Book impresses The Oregonian and Eugene Register-Guard
• TRUE offers potential for regulatory streamlining
• Tillamook project supports economy, education, environment
  
• OSU research, now at $275M, answers questions important to Oregon
  
• Oregon adds Facebook as friend
  
• Oregon brings NOAA's Pacific Fleet to Newport
  
• Eugene's Ninkasi supersizes suds production
  
• Trucking companies benefit with Oregon’s Trusted Carrier Program
  
• Workplace deaths continued to decline over past decade
• SAIF declares $100 million dividend for policyholders
• Business Oregon; Ferrotec plan for solar manufacturing plant 
• Certification of tribal industrial land is a first for the state of Oregon 
• Governor awards grant to Novellus Systems for workforce training 
• Don't trash that TV or computer! DEQ can help with Oregon E-Cycles 
• BOLI saves $43,000 by not mailing new minimum wage posters
• Solar manufacturing helps make Oregon globally competitive
• DCBS provides new Local Building Department Directory (LBDD) 
• Oregon Lottery receives national award for financial reporting
• Online maps "show us the money" for bridge program spending
• State revokes licenses of two mortgage companies 
• Oregon OSHA increases tower crane inspections
• Oregon OSHA adopts new employee involvement rule
• Oregon to get world's largest wind farm
• Liquor Commission receives Social Responsibility Award
• Oregon poised in National Pharmacy Leadership role
• State investigating sales of auction-rate securities
• State orders New Jersey debt consolidating business to cease and desist
• ConnectOregon funds help improve Port's efficiency
• ODOT is saving truckers time and money
• New casino gets recruitment bonus
• State tax credit will help build Collins sawmill
• Neighborhood brokerage firm gets WorkSource dividend  
• Oregon employers to see lower workers' compensation costs in 2008
• WorkSource Oregon organizes Gottchalks' recruitment efforts
• Energy-saving measures land two Oregon organizations major awards
• Oregon Lottery proceeds benefit Oregonians
• Botswana officials hear vision of DHS I.T. leaders
• ODOT helps Oregon small businesses grow

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father and child reading a book  Enhancing Quality of Life

• Cultural Trust grantee jumps into Woodburn High School fire recovery effort
• Online quiz tests auto insurance knowledge 
• OPDP: a state-sponsored prescription discount program 
• Healthy Kids - a new health coverage program for uninsured kids
• OHA visits communities to help build better health
• Medicare open/annual enrollment is changing to 10/15/11 - 12/7/11
• Dorothea Lange in the Willamette Valley 
• One in seven Oregon Youth Authority youth honored as graduates
• Working together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• Home loans exclusively for Oregon veterans, now a lifetime benefit
• 2011 Ag Progress Awards dinner 
• Welcome to Oregon Health Connect
• Phone counselors/Web help Oregon adults explore college options
• New website/phone number help Oregonians find health programs
• Do more state tax transactions online, anytime
• ODOT weigh station gets new life as garden shed
• OMD sponsors free "Job, Safety, Health and Wellness" event 
• OLCC distributes $172M to Oregon cities, counties and the general fund
• DOGAMI map highlights events in Oregon's amazing geologic history
• Homeowners have new tool to navigate permitting process
• DEQ sponsors 'Oregon Carbon Calculator,' an online interactive tool 
• Building Codes Division seeks input on "Reach Code" 
• Oregon home insurance costs among lowest in nation
• Bend event to help homeowners prevent foreclosure
• ODOT employees and programs create 'good news' for Oregonians every day
• New trail and bridge commemorate South Slough's 35 years
• Governor proclamation for Arson Awareness week: May 3-9
• DCBS warns homeowners to be wary of loan modification offers
• Oregon home insurance costs below national average
• Oregonians to receive assistance with health premiums
• ODOT engineers reach out to students
• State Lands cleans up Mill Creek for Oregon Sesquicentennial
• 2009 Oregon OSHA calendar celebrates safety in agriculture
• Building Codes Division to allow water conservation in commercial buildings
• DOC nurse helps save inmate's life
• Dallas retirement home awarded Oregon OSHA grant
• OSP Drug Detection Canine Program helps keep drugs from our communities
• Building Codes Division takes action to support water conservation
• State Fire Marshal awards Silver Sparky
• State Fire Marshal awards Golden Sparky
• Oregon State Fire Marshal Incident Communication Unit receives award
• State Medical Examiner releases 2007 drug death statistics
• Oregon workers remembered on April 28 (Worker's Memorial Day)
• Oregon OSHA changes housing rules for agricultural workers
• Oregon's Public Health Week focus: climate change and human health
• Oregon receives grant money for foreclosure counseling and assistance
• Lola, a new OSP drug detection canine, joins department
• ODFW goes airborne to stock back country lakes with trout

older man and woman shaking hands with woman Helping People

• Cultural Trust grantee jumps into Woodburn High School fire recovery effort
• Insurance Division helps consumers locate missing life policies
• OPDP: a state-sponsored prescription discount program 
• Union Pacific recruits in Hermiston
• Healthy Kids - a new health coverage program for uninsured kids
• OHA visits communities to help build better health
• Medicare open/annual enrollment is changing to 10/15/11 - 12/7/11
• OLCC & RRF Joint Research and Educational Project
• OLCC distributes $350M to help fund schools, police and healthcare (pdf)
• New Insurance Division video explains why health insurance costs so much
• Welcome to Oregon Health Connect
• Phone counselors/Web help Oregon adults explore college options
• New website/phone number help Oregonians find health programs
• OMD sponsors free "Job, Safety, Health and Wellness" event 
• State offers tips for first-time insurance buyers
• Oregon annuities investors have more protection under new law
• Alcohol awareness campaign focuses on communities of color in Oregon
• Bend event to help homeowners prevent foreclosure
• DCBS Insurance Division bill helps consumers' rights when a car is totaled
• Oregon homeowners facing foreclosure have new rights
• iMatchSkills becomes hot property for community management firm
• State ME gets national award supporting organ/tissue donation programs
• HOPE - an event to help homeowners prevent foreclosure
• Oregonians to receive assistance with health premiums
• Search for Unclaimed Property
• Kids get to "Shop with a Cop"
• Oregon's Urban Search and Rescue Task Force undergo training
• State Fire Marshal retires after 29 years of service
• Oregon's law enforcement community receives award for Special Olympics work
• DOC nurse helps save inmate's life
• State takes enforcement action against four mortgage brokers
• State investigating sales of auction-rate securities
• State orders New Jersey debt consolidating business to cease and desist
• Oregon OSHA changes housing rules for agricultural workers
• Oregon receives grant money for foreclosure counseling and assistance
• Agency partnership solves vaccine delivery problem during winter weather
• Surplus property holds its biggest Saturday sale

man wearing hard hat  Improving Infrastructure

• Oregon Lottery helps produce plywood & paychecks in Rogue River
• CCWD and John N. Gardner Institute partner to advance state goals
• ODOT's mountaintop site creates tangible results (pdf)
• Oregon launches broadband map
• 2011 ODOT summer road construction map now online
• Trucking companies benefit with Oregon’s Trusted Carrier Program
  
• ODOT employees and programs create 'good news' for Oregonians every day
• Online maps "show us the money" for bridge program spending
• New building codes standards support electric vehicle growth
• OSP radio tech nat'l nominee for public safety communications award
• State saves money, consolidates Data Center/IT networks (video)

baby girl holding American flag  Preserving Public Safety

• Missing Childrens' Awareness Day - May 25, 2012 
• State Police Fish & Wildlife "2011 Team of the Year"
• Honoring Oregon's Fallen Law Enforcement Officers
• Roadside memorial sign honors three fallen State Troopers 
• Rimrock West nationally recognized as a Firewise Community
• Community of Rimrock West leverages resources to reduce wildfire risk
• OLCC & RRF Joint Research and Educational Project
• OSP exceeds goal of e-recruit electronic applications in six hours
• Nine new State Police Recruit Troopers to be sworn in
• Fire prevention outreach is a success in southwestern Oregon communities
• ODOT's mountaintop site creates tangible results (pdf)
• One in seven Oregon Youth Authority youth honored as graduates
• Oregon State Police Springfield area command receives award
• Oregon VINE reaches six million people in ten years 
• State emergency responders train for all-hazard events
• Grant funds help Troopers target safety corridors
• AMBER Alert program expands to Facebook
• State Troopers working to keep highways safe over holidays
• OSP helps make Thanksgiving holiday travel safe, not tragic
• Tillamook project supports economy, education, environment
• OSFM, ODF Fire Safety House to serve as life-sized teaching tool
• Governor announces new State Police Superintendent
• Riders benefit from Oregon’s top-rated motorcycle training program
• 34 OSP recruit troopers hitting the road following graduation
• Workplace deaths continued to decline over past decade
• 13 new recruit troopers graduate from Public Safety Academy
• Alcohol awareness campaign focuses on communities of color in Oregon
• 2009 highway deaths hit 60-year low
• New laws aimed at improving safety
• OSP Bomb Tech added to National Memorial Wall 
• ADS-B creates a new standard of aviation safety
• OSP Bend office returns to 24 hour coverage
• OSP troopers back on the road 24/7 in Lane County 
• Oregon police target DUII drivers: August 21 - Sept. 7
• Governor proclamation for Arson Awareness week: May 3-9
• OSP troopers back on 24 hour coverage at Portland and Tualatin offices
• 41 OSP recruit troopers graduate from post-academy training
• Response vehicles help forensic scientists at crime scenes
• Simpson selected to lead Office of State Fire Marshal 
• Governor proclaims Fire Service Appreciation Day January 27
• OSP Central Point office first to resume 24/7 trooper patrol coverage
• 17 new Oregon State Police recruit troopers sworn in
• 2008 Thanksgiving Traffic Safety Reminders
• Oregon's Urban Search and Rescue Task Force undergo training
• 2009 Oregon OSHA calendar celebrates safety in agriculture
• OSP troopers honored for "looking beyond the traffic ticket"
• Grant funds put more troopers on mountain passes this winter
• Diverse backgrounds, experiences make up newest state police recruits
• Trucking industry, ODOT, OSP and local police partner on safety campaign
• Baker County receives funds to conduct hazardous materials exercise
• "Trailer of Shame" makes debut at State Fair
• DUII Crackdown: August 15 - September 1
• OSP Drug Detection Canine Program helps keep drugs from our communities
• Liquor Commission receives Social Responsibility Award
• OSP radio tech nat'l nominee for public safety communications award
• State Fire Marshal awards Silver Sparky
• State Fire Marshal awards Golden Sparky
• Oregon State Fire Marshal Incident Communication Unit receives award
• Trooper, Deputy receive TOP COPS award
• Missing Childrens' Awareness Day - May 25, 2008
• New OSP Forensic Services Division Director appointed
• Oregon's Public Health Week focus: climate change and human health
• Lola, a new OSP drug detection canine, joins department
• OSP Sergeant Receives DPSST-sponsored Top Patrol Supervisor Award
• Guardsmen save a life with the right training, equipment
• Video testimony equipment helps forensic scientists in court & lab
• OSP rolls out new recruiting Web site
• Radio communications expert receives first OSP "Charles P. Pray Award"
• Amber Alert Awareness Day - January 13, 2008
• Oregon firefighting agencies help fight southern California's wildfires

shaking hands  Promoting Responsible Government

• DLCD among finalists for Harvard Kennedy School Innovations award grant
• New Insurance Division video explains why health insurance costs so much
• OWEB offers new online tool for watershed restoration reporting
• Long distance telephone provider must stop doing business in Oregon
• New business data now free online at Data.Oregon.gov 
• Loss of power at OLCC resulted in no loss of revenue for Oregonians
• Customer awareness of DMV online service is rising
• ODOT weigh station gets new life as garden shed
• DMV shaves two days off turnaround time for vehicle title request
• OLCC distributes $172M to Oregon cities, counties and the general fund
• DCBS Insurance Division bill helps consumers' rights when a car is totaled
• Oregon to ban misleading credentials
• State ME gets national award supporting organ/tissue donation programs
• ODOT engineers reach out to students
• Oregon's law enforcement community receives award for Special Olympics work
• VISA lists Oregon's E-government as compliant with PCI security
• State buildings are models of energy efficiency
• State government's fleet goes "green"
• Agency partnership solves vaccine delivery problem during winter weather
• Oregon Employment Department offers 2008 Oregon Employer Council Annual State Conference
• Botswana officials hear vision of DHS I.T. leaders
• ODOT helps Oregon small businesses grow
• A report to Oregonians

Protecting Natural Resources

• State Police Fish & Wildlife "2011 Team of the Year"
• Rimrock West nationally recognized as a Firewise Community
• Stimulus funds at work in Clackamas County
• Community of Rimrock West leverages resources to reduce wildfire risk
• Oregon Lottery helps produce plywood & paychecks in Rogue River
• Fire prevention outreach is a success in southwestern Oregon communities
• OWEB offers new online tool for watershed restoration reporting
• Working together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• OSFM, ODF Fire Safety House to serve as life-sized teaching tool
• DEQ sponsors 'Oregon Carbon Calculator,' an online interactive tool 
• Building Codes Division seeks input on "Reach Code" 
• Wildlife benefit from agriculture's good neighbor policy 
• New trail and bridge commemorate South Slough's 35 years
• ODOT weigh-in-motion system clears 11 million trucks
• State Lands cleans up Mill Creek for Oregon Sesquicentennial
• New building codes standards support electric vehicle growth
• Building Codes Division to allow water conservation in commercial buildings
• Oregon to get world's largest wind farm
• Building Codes Division takes action to support water conservation
• State government's fleet goes "green"
• State tax credit will help build Collins sawmill
• Oregon firefighting agencies help fight southern California's wildfires
• Energy-saving measures land two Oregon organizations major awards
• Oregon Lottery proceeds benefit Oregonians
• ODFW goes airborne to stock back country lakes with trout

scissors cutting one dollar bill  Saving Money

• Oregon stimulus funds at work in Grant County
• DLCD among finalists for Harvard Kennedy School Innovations award grant
• Long distance telephone provider must stop doing business in Oregon
• Loss of power at OLCC resulted in no loss of revenue for Oregonians
• TRUE offers potential for regulatory streamlining
• Customer awareness of DMV online service is rising
• Oregon to net $3.6 million from AIG settlement
• Do more state tax transactions online, anytime
• DMV shaves two days off turnaround time for vehicle title request
• State offers tips for first-time insurance buyers
• SAIF declares $100 million dividend for policyholders
• BOLI saves $43,000 by not mailing new minimum wage posters
• ODOT weigh-in-motion system clears 11 million trucks
• Oregon home insurance costs below national average
• State buildings are models of energy efficiency
• Video testimony equipment helps forensic scientists in court & lab
• ODOT is saving truckers time and money
• State saves money, consolidates Data Center/IT networks (video)
• Oregon employers to see lower workers' compensation costs in 2008
• Surplus property holds its biggest Saturday sale

News by Month Posted, 2012

May

• Cultural Trust grantee jumps into Woodburn High School fire recovery effort
• Missing Childrens' Awareness Day - May 25, 2012 
• Online quiz tests auto insurance knowledge 
• Insurance Division helps consumers locate missing life policies
• Honoring Oregon's Fallen Law Enforcement Officers
• State Police Fish & Wildlife "2011 Team of the Year" 

April

• Roadside memorial sign honors three fallen State Troopers 
• Rimrock West nationally recognized as a Firewise Community

March

• Stimulus funds at work in Clackamas County
• Oregon stimulus funds at work in Grant County

February

• Community of Rimrock West leverages resources to reduce wildfire risk

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News by Month Posted, 2011

November

• DLCD among finalists for Harvard Kennedy School Innovations award grant
• OHA visits communities to help build better health
• Healthy Kids - a new health coverage program for uninsured kids
• Union Pacific recruits in Hermiston
• OPDP: a state-sponsored prescription discount program 

October

• OSP exceeds goal of e-recruit electronic applications in six hours
• OLCC & RRF Joint Research and Educational Project
• CCWD and John N. Gardner Institute partner to advance state goals
• Oregon Lottery helps produce plywood & paychecks in Rogue River
• Medicare open/annual enrollment is changing to 10/15/11 - 12/7/11
• Dorothea Lange in the Willamette Valley 

September

• Nine new State Police Recruit Troopers to be sworn in

August

• Fire prevention outreach is a success in southwestern Oregon communities
• OLCC distributes $350M to help fund schools, police and healthcare (pdf)
• New Insurance Division video explains why health insurance costs so much
• ODOT's mountaintop site creates tangible results (pdf)
• OWEB offers new online tool for watershed restoration reporting

July

• Oregon launches broadband map
• One in seven Oregon Youth Authority youth honored as graduates
• Working together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• Long distance telephone provider must stop doing business in Oregon
• Oregon State Police Springfield area command receives award
• 2011 ODOT summer road construction map now online
• Home loans exclusively for Oregon veterans, now a lifetime benefit
• Gorge 25 effort wins 2011 Oregon Tourism and Hospitality award
• 2011 Ag Progress Awards dinner 

June

• Economic link restored between southern Oregon coast and Willamette Valley
• Loss of power at OLCC resulted in no loss of revenue for Oregonians
• Welcome to Oregon Health Connect
• The new Oregon Blue Book impresses The Oregonian and Eugene Register-Guard
• Oregon VINE reaches six million people in ten years 
• New business data now free online at Data.Oregon.gov 

April

• Phone counselors/Web help Oregon adults explore college options

March

• Customer awareness of DMV online service is rising
• TRUE offers potential for regulatory streamlining
• Oregon to net $3.6 million from AIG settlement
• New website/phone number help Oregonians find health programs
• State emergency responders train for all-hazard events

January

• Grant funds help Troopers target safety corridors
• AMBER Alert program expands to Facebook

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News by Month Posted, 2010

December

• State Troopers working to keep highways safe over holidays

November

• OSP helps make Thanksgiving holiday travel safe, not tragic

October

• Tillamook project supports economy, education, environment
• DMV shaves two days off turnaround time for vehicle title request
• OSFM, ODF Fire Safety House to serve as life-sized teaching tool
• ODOT weigh station gets new life as garden shed
• Do more state tax transactions online, anytime

September

• OMD sponsors free "Job, Safety, Health and Wellness" event 

August

• Governor announces new State Police Superintendent
• OLCC distributes $172M to Oregon cities, counties and the general fund
• DOGAMI map highlights events in Oregon's amazing geologic history

July

• OSU research, now at $275M, answers questions important to Oregon
• Homeowners have new tool to navigate permitting process
• Oregon adds Facebook as friend

June

• Oregon brings NOAA's Pacific Fleet to Newport
• Eugene's Ninkasi supersizes suds production

May

• Riders benefit from Oregon’s top-rated motorcycle training program
  
• Trucking companies benefit with Oregon’s Trusted Carrier Program
  
• State offers tips for first-time insurance buyers
• 34 OSP recruit troopers hitting the road following graduation

April

• DEQ sponsors 'Oregon Carbon Calculator,' an online interactive tool 
• Workplace deaths continued to decline over past decade 
• Building Codes Division seeks input on "Reach Code" 

March

• Oregon annuities investors have more protection under new law
• 13 new recruit troopers graduate from Public Safety Academy
• SAIF declares $100 million dividend for policyholders
• Alcohol awareness campaign focuses on communities of color in Oregon
• Oregon home insurance costs among lowest in nation
• Bend event to help homeowners prevent foreclosure
• Business Oregon; Ferrotec plan for solar manufacturing plant 

January

• 2009 highway deaths hit 60-year low
• Certification of tribal industrial land is a first for the state of Oregon 
• Governor awards grant to Novellus Systems for workforce training 
• Don't trash that TV or computer! DEQ can help with Oregon E-Cycles 
• DCBS Insurance Division bill helps consumers' rights when a car is totaled

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