Oregon

Oregon gave millions of dollars in incorrect benefits to state health plan, audit says

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Medical supplies at the Children’s Clinic in Portland on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024.

By Shaanth Nanguneri, Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM, Ore. — Oregon’s free health care program for adults who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid may have improperly awarded $15 million in benefits-related payments to recipients, according to a recent audit of the state-administered federal program. The “questionable” funding was revealed this week in a 124-page … Read more

Oregon’s experimental pavilion ‘challenges logic’ in trout timber

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flat lake trout wood pavilion

American architecture studio Lake Flatow and engineering and construction firm StructureCraft experimented with dowel glulam for a pavilion at the Mass Timber Conference in Oregon. Lake Flato and Structurecraft collaborated on a pavilion using dowel laminated timber (DLT). DLT was originally developed in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s, but has gained popularity in the … Read more