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January 30, 2025
  • Evictions keep rising despite new law
  • Kotek union gift contradicts her own agency
  • Labor bureau massive backlog
  • Police chief formally apologizes over mistakes
  • Rep. Diehl, Rep. Osborn: Kotek's costly mandate contradiction
  • Transgender veteran responds to Trump order
  • HB 3119 Hearing: Stops diesel truck ban
  • Report: Oregon reading proficiency among worst in US
  • 3 hour stand-off, armed man on bus
  • Citizens testify at hearing for PGE's Forest Park plan
  • Food banks create safe haven amid immigration concerns
  • Metro Council votes to expand Sherwood urban growth boundary
  • Metro Says WashCo Has $91 Million Surplus for Homeless
  • Peter Courtney, longest serving legislator, memorialized
  • Portland Wants State to Fund Homeless Pod Villages
  • Projects Meant to Benefit PPS Black Community Stalled
  • The best homeless fix yet
    • January 29, 2025
  • Gov. Kotek reacts to federal funding freeze
  • Oregon math, reading among nation's worst
  • Oregon: Nation's 2nd-tightest housing market — even tighter outside Portland
  • Treasurer Steiner urges fossil fuel bill, “Too risky for retirees"
  • HB 2176 repeals Corporate activity tax
  • Chief reiterates officers don't help ICE
  • HB 3119 Hearing: Stops ban on diesel truck sales
  • Hundreds of city workers to strike next week
  • Rep. Boice: Oregon mills can rebuild California
  • Judge temporarily blocked freeze on fed. grants/loans
  • Jon Raby, formerly of Lakeview BLM, named acting national director
  • Metro: WashCo, fretting shortfalls, has $91M surplus for homeless services
  • Providence hospitals found in violation of staffing law: OHA
  • Sen. Suzanne Webber: Rural NW Oregon updates
  • The local groups fighting human trafficking in Southern Oregon
  • Roseburg mayor calls for independent investigation following councilor's resignation
  • Troubled Bandon health center will stay open, preserving care on the coast
  • Judge recuses himself from St. Helens sex abuse case ‘in interest of justice'
    • January 28, 2025
  • Oregon sanctuary state status questioned by Justice Dept.
  • Kotek's economic emergency order is callous
  • Ethics Com. to probe Kotek's spending
  • Oregon: Bottom 10 for real after-tax income
  • Ballot Initiative a rebirth of nuclear power
  • Oregonian who led federal prison system, out under Trump
  • Water management tops 2025 environmental priorities for Kotek
  • Oregon joins $106M multi state settlement with Vanguard over big tax bills
  • Oregon officials brace for changes on federal lands
  • Oregon set to launch business accountability recycling program by July 2025
  • Sen. Bonham: turning our farms into solar farms?
  • Bill proposes nutrition assistance despite immigration status
  • Bill would ban new livestock farms in state's most polluted areas
  • Bend business district is stepping up its sustainability efforts
  • Portland foot traffic shows increase in worker presence
  • Siletz Tribe purchases 2K acres of S. Oregon land with significant Native history
  • PPS $1.15B high school modernization plan out of line with similar projects
  • Some key education bills in Oregon's 2025 legislative session