By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 Hello Friends and Neighbors. Over the past few weeks, it seems my newsletters have focused on wildfires, COVID, and the partisan challenges in our state…
Category: Oregon Legislature
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: Special Session Begins Today, Sept. 20th
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 Hello Friends and Neighbors, I am writing this weekly report as I often do on Sunday afternoon. By the time you receive it Monday, I will be in…
State’s Coastal Caucus Requests Disaster Relief for Commercial Salmon Industry
SALEM, OR – The Legislative Coastal Caucus urged Governor Brown to formally request federal disaster relief for Oregon’s commercial salmon industry for the 2018, 2019, and 2020 seasons. Oregon’s commercial salmon industry…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: Resilience, Preparation, and Common Cause
By State Representative David Gomberg In the past few days, I joined several somber memorials. I attended an LED-candlelight gathering in Otis of fire survivors. Early Saturday I watched as our first responders in…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: The Bright Line for Me – Protecting Oregon’s Schoolchildren
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 Getting our kids and grandkids safely back into school has got to be priority one. As parents, students, and educators anxiously return to in-person learning…
NEWS UPDATE FROM OREGON REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: A Mixed Bag of News
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 We’re obviously still very much caught up in the maelstrom of the COVID Delta surge. The wave of new cases that began at the end…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: Energetic, Creative and Compassionate People
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 Saturday I spent the morning with a group of volunteers and visionaries at Ona Beach celebrating the opening of the Corvallis to the Sea Trail. This project…
Virtual Format for Redistricting Public Hearings Announced Amid Delta Surge
SALEM, Ore. – In response to growing hospitalization rates across the state due to the Delta variant of COVID-19, Senate President Peter Courtney and House Speaker Tina Kotek today August 23, 2021,…
OREGON STATE LEGISLATURE UPDATE: Next on the Legislative Agenda – Redistricting
By State Representation David Gomberg, District 10 Over time, populations across Oregon change. Some communities grow with more year-round residents while others lose population. And so, to ensure that everyone is equally represented…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: A Collection of Interesting News
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 Hello Friends, An editorial in yesterday’s Oregonian reflects much of my own thinking on recent COVID developments. Here are some excerpts: Rising COVID-19 case counts, increasing hospitalizations and the return…
