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Salem Reporter • 22nd July 2026

“Functionally obsolete” Oregon State Penitentiary poses health and safety risks to the incarcerated, audit finds - Salem Reporter

The Oregon State Penitentiary’s aging facility is contributing to potentially life-threatening conditions, an audit by the Oregon Secretary of State found.

The audit, published Wednesday, investigated failing facilities, staffing shortages and obsolete information technology systems that are working to undermine reform efforts in Oregon’s prison system. It found that Oregon’s oldest prison is on a path to become “functionally obsolete” soon regardless of maintenance efforts as outdated infras...

While Salem project is uncertain, Verrus advances data center in Michigan - Salem Reporter

Verrus is further along in getting a data center project approved in Michigan and faces similar resistance to its efforts in Salem.

The California company seeking to build a 75-acre data center in southeast Salem is also pursuing a much larger project in Michigan. There, it has already cleared a key hurdle but remains locked in a dispute with local officials.

Enrollment decline to reshape university

This fall, the University of Oregon will turn 150 years old; at the same time, administrators will confront one of the largest financial crises of the century that will result in sweeping budget cuts across the institution.
The university is preparing to cut roughly $65 million from its budget across the next several years, in addition to last summer’s cuts of about $30 million that resulted in 176 job cuts across departments, of which 117 were layoffs, 59 were unfilled positions. The new cuts c...

Tenure cuts not ruled out ahead of day 2 of UO Board of Trustees meeting

The University of Oregon’s spring Board of Trustees meeting is being held June 1 and 2, in addition to meetings of the executive, audit and governance, and finance and facilities committees.
President John Karl Scholz and Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Jamie Moffitt fielded questions about uncertainty surrounding the recently announced $65 million in budget cuts that will occur at the university over the next several years, notably not ruling out potential cuts to tenured f...

Newly released FBI footage shows different angle of federal building window break

The FBI Portland office has released video footage from Jan. 30, where damage occurred at the Eugene Federal Building during anti-ICE protests.

Three videos show different angles and locations of protestors gathered around windows at the federal building. This comes after the FBI had asked for tips regarding an ongoing investigation into damage “caused by rioters,” in reference to the window near the bike cage at the south entrance.

On Jan. 30, the Eugene Police Department declared the area arou...

UO professor seeks $6M, alleges racial bias in tenure denial

Associate professor of accounting Qintao Fan is suing the University of Oregon for $6 million, alleging that the then-dean of the Lundquist College of Business discounted her publication materials and positive external review letters when considering her for a tenure promotion. The suit was filed on Jan. 27.

In 2016, Fan was hired within the Lundquist College of Business in a tenure-track position. Fan obtained a Ph.D. from Stanford University and has held positions at the University of Californ...

UO history professor arraigned on 10 charges of encouraging child sex-abuse in the first degree

CONTENT WARNING: This story makes reference to sexual abuse of minors, which may be disturbing to some readers.
Update: Goble has received supervised release until his next court date on Dec. 29.

University of Oregon professor Andrew Edmund Goble was arraigned Monday on 10 charges of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree. According to court documents, Goble knowingly duplicated or exchanged visual recordings of “sexually explicit conduct involving a child.”
Goble was arrested Nov....

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“Functionally obsolete” Oregon State Penitentiary poses health and safety risks to the incarcerated, audit finds - Salem Reporter

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While Salem project is uncertain, Verrus advances data center in Michigan - Salem Reporter

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Enrollment decline to reshape university

Tenure cuts not ruled out ahead of day 2 of UO Board of Trustees meeting

Newly released FBI footage shows different angle of federal building window break

UO professor seeks $6M, alleges racial bias in tenure denial

Live updates: Eugene Police Department declares ‘riot,’ orders demonstrators to leave

Live updates: Officers deploy pepper balls, detain protesters at Eugene Federal Building

UO history professor arraigned on 10 charges of encouraging child sex-abuse in the first degree

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