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April 02, 2025
  • Media asks: Dems more interested in helping poor or helping $$?
  • AG lawsuit against Trump over $11B aid cuts
  • $46M fighting black market pot. Working? Can't tell.
  • House GOP bills reduce tax for tips, overtime
  • 8% beer tax is a sham (hearing)
  • Changing building use triggers hidden cost
  • Beekeepers hit with massive colony losses
  • Lithium mine outcry spurs feds to extend comments
  • Flood water tests positive for E. Coli
  • Chart: Vanishing voter voice
  • Secure our elections: support HB 210
  • OHSU top research balks at Kotek closing center
  • Report: Oregon falling further behind in replacing bridges
  • Treasurer returning $11M unclaimed funds
  • When it comes to wage law, the color of money is gray
  • Wyden comments on Sen. Booker's marathon speech
  • Amtrak adds back Cascades route
  • ODE cuts programs after Fed $$ are terminated early
  • FBI to investigate unsolved crimes in Native American communities
    • April 01, 2025
  • Backlog fears don't dissuade Kotek water transfer proposal
  • Ethics Comm. to determine if board examining OHSU-Legacy deal has conflicts of interest
  • Controversial proposal to take away vote by mail results in heated debate
  • Lars Larson: Will Kotek condemn the violence?
  • If you don't want new taxes, attend these town halls
  • Should Oregon end its vote-by-mail system? Legislators seek public opinion
  • The last thing to do in a one party state
  • Bill to end vote-by-mail slows Oregon legislative website to a crawl
  • Governor Kotek proclaims April as Oregon Arbor Month
  • How Oregon's forced mental health treatment could change this year
  • Lawmakers consider bill that prevents enforcing NIL limits in college sports
  • Lawyers seeks circumcision ban Says cutting law discriminates against boys
  • More than 10K people submit testimony on bill to end vote-by-mail
  • PacifiCorp involved in bills in Oregon to limit utility wildfire liability, damages
  • Rep Boice: 3 tax cuts Republicans are rallying behind
  • Senate advances bill to increase difficulty of banning books in schools
  • Senate passes SB 1098 undermining parents rights
  • Compensation for inflated generic drug prices
  • Oregon's Dungeness crab fuels families, $68M a year industry
  • Poll: Most local residents aren't sure how well Mayor Wilson is doing
  • Rep. Elmer: HB 3881 hurts school districts, charter schools, more
  • Trump officials bar undocumented Oregon students from college completion programs
    • March 31, 2025
  • New bill proposes repealing vote-by-mail in Oregon, public invited to testify
  • Trump turns homelessness response away from housing, toward forced treatment
  • Stop the “kill petition bill” SJR 30 — Call today
  • A personal point of privilege: The Quiet Thinning of the Legislative Herd
  • Problems with big baseball bill SB110 — Hearing today
  • Response to OHA report — 8% increase in assisted suicide prescriptions
  • As Oregon ages, tax revenue may shrink
  • BLM seeking public comment for S. E. Oregon lithium-drilling project
  • Garbage company, gravel mine among those fined by DEQ in February
  • Key OBI competitiveness villa advances to house floor
  • City of Pendleton increases water, sewer rates April 1
  • North Bend & Coos Bay bring back community cleanup event after five-year hiatus
  • Oregon cities urge property tax reform amid budget crisis
  • Residents rally against proposed closure of St. Johns Community Center
  • Where Salem ranks in list of best US state capitals to live in 2025
  • U of O, faculty union pauses strike after reaching tentative agreement
  • Protesters smash hotel for daring to call cops
  • Ringleader in Portland burglary spree sentenced to 9yr in prison
  • Smelt poachers caught with over a ton of fish during one-day season