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- Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan attends the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Baton Rouge, La., July 8, 2022. Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is in hot water, with Republican lawmakers calling for her resignation and the Democratic governor wanting investigations, because Fagan took a consulting job with a marijuana firm. The matter came to a head Friday, April 28, 2023 after Fagan's office released an audit of the state's marijuana regulators, the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission.(AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)
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Marijuana job lands Oregon secretary of state in trouble
By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press
Fri,04/28/23-12:37PM , 150 Reads
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is in hot water, with Republican lawmakers calling for her resignation and the Democratic governor seeking investigations because Fagan took a consulting job with a marijuana firm.

Fagan released a statement late Friday saying she welcomed the governor's inquiry.
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- A vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a cannabis marketplace on May 24, 2019, in Los Angeles. Oregon's pioneering experiment with legalized magic mushrooms took a step closer to reality as the first "facilitators" who will accompany clients as they experience the drug received their state licenses, authorities said Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
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Planning a trip? Oregon's magic mushroom experiment advances
By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press
Tue,04/18/23-4:19PM , 312 Reads
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- Customers walk toward the Last Waterin' Hole restaurant in North Plains, Ore., on March 17, 2023. In an attempt to attract semiconductor companies to Oregon, the state Legislature on Thursday, April 6, 2023, authorized the governor to expand urban growth boundaries to provide land for chip makers to build factories and provides over $200 million in grants to chipmakers. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)
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Microchips or microgreens? Oregon tweaks farm protection law
By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press
Thu,04/06/23-4:55PM , 575 Reads
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is changing a half-century-old land-use law to make room for semiconductor development and gain an edge in attracting the multi-billion-dollar industry, upsetting farmers who see their livelihoods at risk.
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- Workers walk on a skybridge to and from a large Intel facility in Hillsboro, Ore., on March 17, 2023. Intel, which produces semiconductor chips, is Oregon's biggest corporate employer. Lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow the governor to expand urban growth boundaries for semiconductor-related industries. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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Factory or farm? Oregon may alter land use for chipmakers
By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press
Sun,03/26/23-7:12AM , 512 Reads
NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) — Aaron Nichols walked past rows of kale growing on his farm, his knee-high brown rubber boots speckled with some of the richest soil on earth, and gazed with concern toward fields in the distance. Just over the horizon loomed a gigantic building of the semiconductor chipmaker Intel.
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