🛑 Gov. Tina Kotek instructed the Oregon DMV to pause its automatic voter registration via the state's motor voter law after the agency found it accidentally registered an additional 300 noncitizens to vote due to a clerical error.
🌀 While over 50 American Red Cross volunteers from Oregon are already helping clean up the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the organization said it is preparing to send more to Florida this week for Hurricane Milton. (KGW)
❤️ Basketball legend Michael Jordan wrote Providence Heart Institute a $1 million check to establish a cardiac disease center in the name of Nike veteran Howard "H" White, who received a heart transplant there several years ago. (Portland Business Journal)
🔥 A growing, 7,000-acre wildfire prompted Level 3 "Go Now" evacuation orders for many in a rural area near Pine Mountain, located 20 miles southeast of Bend, yesterday. (Central Oregon Daily)
