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March 06, 2026
  • Bill passed to prohibit masks for ICE agents
  • Shield law to protect abortion, gender doctors passes
  • Bad gun bill, HB 4145, gets gutted
  • Dems quietly narrow business tax break they touted
  • Dems vote down removal of illegal migrants with felonies
  • Employment Dept still takes an hour to answer calls
  • Forest thinning can protect water supply: study
  • Kotek signs mental health credentialing bill
  • Lars Larson: Kotek signs anti-democracy bill
  • OR House passes Planned Parenthood funding bill
  • Oregon creates annual HPV awareness day
  • Petition to divert climate funds to hire more police
  • Portland Directs $150,000 to Legal Support for Immigrants
  • Readers respond: Loss of Blazers a calamity?
  • Rep. Edwards: Swatting crackdown bill passes
  • UO fight with feds over DEI not over
  • Wyden to Noem: "See you at Nuremberg 2.0"
  • ‘OPB Politics Now': OR education report card
    • March 05, 2026
  • Epstein files contain prominent OR figures
  • Bill expanding gun control dies
  • How much do you need to be middle class in OR?
  • Senate approves $600M Moda Center bill
  • "Equal" = tax vote lawsuit silver bullet?
  • 1,700 acres industrial land bill dies
  • Bill passed - more Woodburn farmworker houses
  • Revissions to 2024 campaign finance law coming — confusion over what the bill will do
  • 12 arrested in Portland camping enforcement
  • Angelita Sanchez joins gas tax lawsuit
  • Benton County denies landfill expansion
  • Bill lets foster kids see siblings
  • Bill passed to raise lodging tax
  • BLM to roll back timber harvesting restrictions
  • Changes to data center tax break bill
  • Copper wires stolen from 60 lights on I-84
  • Councilor wants to alter arts tax, add new one
  • ICE freezes Newport detention center plans
  • Iran protest becomes “No War. No ICE”
  • Judge expected to further limit ICE in Portland
  • Kotek: more housing for those 55 and older
  • Legislature to expand spending despite 'austerity'
  • Moda Center bill passes OR senate
  • Oregon urges job training after feds cut aid
  • Portland DA 'freezes out' judge from cases
  • Portland may tax Netflix to fund arts
  • Portland urged to relax short-term rental rules
  • WA Gov: Passage of income tax could slip to 2027
  • Who benefits from homeless services tax?
    • March 04, 2026
  • Death Tax Hike bill -- call to action!!!
  • Gas tax leaders sue over moving referendum to May
  • Councilor works remotely from Spain
  • Largest teachers union decline to endorse in governor's race
  • Oregon lawmakers advance bill to revise campaign finance law
  • Big developments: gas tax, death tax, 3 Kotek setbacks
  • Starr slams Gov. Tina Kotek, Democrats over moving Oregon gas tax vote
  • Hotel tax increase with wolf cash passes House, heads to Senate
  • How Tina Kotek rigged the vote
  • Sen. Brock Smith runs for U.S. Senate
  • Bill requiring communication companies to comply with domestic violence warrants passes
  • Lawmakers pass bill to better track student absences
  • Oregon election calendar enters critical filing window for May 2026 Primary
  • Senate measure limiting corporate home purchases in Oregon advances
  • Keizer city councilor, admits ethics violation, faces fine
  • Oregon wine industry economic impact rises to $8.49B despite slower growth
  • Southern Oregon rancher seeks license for livestock auction
  • Governor to SOU: ‘I support finding a path for SOU's long-term financial health'
  • Reporter explains University of Oregon's medication abortion access
  • Serious injuries, deaths from e-scooter use alarm Oregon health officials