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March 03, 2025
  • Kotek denounces shooting at SAIF CEO's home
  • Bill creates unnecessary liability
  • Rural Oregon's cautionary wolf tale
  • 3 bill hearings!! CAT tax. Tire tax. Flavor ban.
  • Trump's logging order sparks Oregon Wild backlash
  • Economist: Oregon ag's healthy run turns moderate
  • Kotek questions Chair Pederson about $$ gap in budget
  • Oregon Reform Education Act introduced
  • Rep. Bentz addresses Trump's advancements
  • Media blasts Oregon Medicaid abuse (as bill advances)
  • New restrictions on neonicotinoids in HB 2679
  • Aquaculture industry opposes proposed Oregon fish farming restrictions
  • Editorial: Vega Pederson's solo act hits all the wrong notes
  • Missing 2-year-old prompts massive search effort in Siletz, Oregon
  • Oregon's neighbor Idaho passes a school choice tax credit
  • Mass timber company breaks ground on $117M facility
  • Multnomah County jails neared capacity 5 times in first two months of the year
  • Oregon man who vandalized synagogue sentenced to probation
  • How to fund Medicaid without screwing taxpayers — Oregon figured It out
    • March 02, 2025
  • Rep. Dexter town hall draws 1,000. Trump focus
  • Decriminalizing theft of “basic need items” bill pulled
  • Lawmakers submit 5X more bills than were passed in 2023
  • Wyden: Bill creates permanent Environmental Justice Office
  • SB 702 hearing, flavor ban to cost $200M
  • $1B utility aid for paying wildfire victims
  • Oregonians want solutions, not more partisanship
  • Chip industry regroups amid setbacks
  • Clackamas demands to audit Multnomah Co
  • Dysentery, the diarrhea-inducing bacterial infection, on the rise in MultCo
  • Fire chief promises ‘open war' on board members
  • No mention of $34M in MultCo reserves in homeless services funding plea
  • OLCC Dir. investigation: Orange Bowl visit on work trip
  • Umatilla Co pushes for nuclear power opportunity
  • This Oregon college produces the most Fulbright scholars
  • Western Oregon U. offers free tax services
  • Wyden to skip Trump speech, hold town hall instead
    • March 01, 2025
  • Experts: Why are people leaving Portland?
  • Official: Eliminate hundreds of jobs — Reductions top $150M
  • Sheriff's deputy resigns over falsifying records
  • Kotek's power-grab bill (HB 2528) trounced 9 to 1
  • Rep. Nguyen announces cancer diagnosis
  • Alert! HB 3362 tire tax for non-road $$
  • This session, we're going to be fighting — Bills that seek to transfer water rights
  • AG Rayfield to host DOGE town hall
  • Democrats warn firings could mean dire wildfire season
  • Good news, Legislature is not metering your domestic well
  • Here's what's changing as nurses return to work
  • New proposal takes aim at threats to public officials
  • SS Administration aims to cut about 7,000 jobs
  • AG secures $9.25 million settlement against drug firms
  • Former H&R Block worker sentenced for $426K scam
  • Man took secret pics of woman, turned self in
  • Portland city administrator unveils proposed budget
  • Trimet hijacker to remain in jail, waiving right to hearing
  • Beloved bartender at steakhouse retires after 3 decades
  • Farmer's Almanac, NOAA differ on PNW spring outlook
  • OR considers independent firefighting on federal land