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June 22, 2025
  • $14B Transportation bill advances
  • Democratic Socialists vow to oppose Kotek over preschool
  • Hotel tax for wildlife passes House
  • $2B gas tax bill moves. Call your lawmaker now!!!
  • Bill to increase major political party threshold passes
  • Editorial: Potential positives, and negatives, in Fed proposal to sell public lands
  • Lars Larson: too raunchy radio but OK for our kids?
  • Oregon Dems greenlight largest tax hike ever with no vote from the people
  • Lawmakers invest in expanded water recycling for irrigation
  • Lawmakers to slash homelessness prevention funding; Kotek calls to reconsider 
  • Merkley condemns Trump decision to bomb Iranian nuclear sites
  • Oregon ranked 3rd worst US state for hepatitis C deaths: What to know
  • Senate President boots dissident senator off committee, appoints himself
  • 2 women announce intent to sue DA's office for discrimination
  • Bend protesters rally against proposed public lands sale
  • ICE increases presence, detentions in Central Oregon
  • Kotek declares state of emergency for Rowena Fire recovery
  • Portland parks director placed on administrative leave
  • Sen. Wyden jabs at Trump budget bill during La Grande town hall
  • UofO dinged for $191K to settle free-speech case with conservative professor
  • With state funding lacking, SOU warns of layoffs and shrinking future
    • June 21, 2025
  • Measure approved to limit National Guard deployment
  • Oregon wildfires burn 20,000 acres, 56 homes
  • Transportation bill hits reality roadblock
  • Car drives into crowd of ICE protesters
  • Homeownership slips further out of reach
  • Rep. Nguyen returns following cancer diagnosis
  • Intel to lay off marketing employees — Opting for AI
  • St. Helens mayor trying to dismiss ex-chief's lawsuit
  • 6 people arrested during ICE protests
  • Alder Springs Fire evacuation orders dropped
  • Incarcerated youth graduate with diplomas
  • MultCo shutters passport office due to budget
  • Court finds gun forensics method not ‘valid'
  • Free summer events, start Mon in Portland Parks
  • Gray whale numbers lowest since '70s
  • Oregon lawyer who dresses like it's 1893
  • Oregon life in the 1900s
  • Wildfire Map Update
    • June 20, 2025
  • Dems celebrate black drag on House floor — Republicans boycott
  • Millions of OR land acres to be sold
  • Police and feds split on ICE protests
  • Oregon peak taxes? (backtracks on gas tax, Kicker, income taxes)
  • Nicotine tax for wildfire funding
  • Ex-employees to sue MultCo DA for discrimination
  • Tribute to heroic Vietnam War sniper
  • Appeals court finds gun forensics not scientifically valid
  • Bills pass to bolster OR electric grid
  • Botox injection led to botulism?
  • Cellphone data to help Washington nab speeders
  • Oregon appeals contempt ruling over state hospital
  • Portland appoints police accountability board
  • Portland councilors approve $8.6 billion budget
  • Readers Respond to Prosper Portland Friction
  • Readers respond: Unemployment for strikers
  • SB 686: Gov't Control Over OR Media
  • Transportation tax: cancelled work sessions
  • Your rights if you get stopped by ICE