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March 29, 2025
  • SJR 30 shuts down your petition rights!!!
  • Kotek stays out of Ag Board fight
  • State expands critical fish habitat map
  • Bill reignites long-running OR-WA bypass battle
  • Kotek urges shut down of OHSU research center
  • Feds look to fast-track lithium mining exploration in SE Oregon
  • Editorial: OPB report on Portland public employees working from home
  • Editorial: Proposed new tax on beer and wine could rise to 8%
  • Rep. Reschke: Starbase $$ restored in Congress
  • Entire state of Oregon drought-free for first time in years
  • Gun bill to raise possession age to 21, establish 72-hour wait splits lawmakers
  • Legislative Ag update
  • NFIB: The PAID Act
  • OHA sees $117M in abrupt federal funding cuts
  • Ore. H-2A unemployment tax relief proposal dies in committee
  • Oregon bill would again allow out-of-state place for foster children
  • Oregon transit agencies warn lawmakers of service cuts without a funding hike
  • Protest against Old Town hotel owner turns violent
  • Street propaganda #7: Knocking Capitalism
  • Lawmakers push for cell phone restrictions in Oregon schools
    • March 28, 2025
  • DOE: OR can't use waivers for undocumented immigrants
  • Complaint: Unruly public safety meeting
  • Portland considers 'social housing'
  • Property tax increase hearing (SB 712)
  • Anti-corporate control of health care bill advances
  • 12,000 tax forms had mistakes for 3rd year
  • Lawmakers consider student cellphone ban
  • City fights mayor's return-to-office mandate
  • State faulted for foster youth suicide
  • Sen. Bonham: Trump's logging order, an Oregon lifeline?
  • Amtrak Cascades now down to one train
  • County sewer CEO Hawaii trips on tax dime
  • Effects of ending pandemic-era health grants on OR
  • Funding blow for Eugene crisis intervention service
  • Lars Larson: Baseball stadium - foul ball for taxpayers
  • NW politician on the secret war plans group chat
  • Old Town residents furious with outreach group blocking roads
  • OR lawmakers ask Trump to reinstate USDA workers
  • OR records rise in 'Death With Dignity' prescriptions
  • OR, WA see unemployment rise in February
  • Patient death causes accreditation setback for state hospital
  • Pressure From Kotek to Close Primate Center
    • March 27, 2025
  • “Signalgate” Snares One of Oregon's Own
  • BLM rushes review of Oregon lithium project
  • Oregon: Trump's voting order to face challenges
  • OR Failed to Set Aside $$ for Legal Liabilities
  • Homeless lady quote perfectly verifies Portland failures
  • 2024 Class: Graduated With Poor Readiness
  • Interim St. Helens police chief accuses mayor of retaliation
  • All ideas merge into one mega-gun bill
  • Drink tax on soda, beer, water - HB 3940
  • 8% alcohol tax (2nd drink tax hearing in same week)
  • City Council Committee Spars Over Policy Process
  • Disaster prep advocates face pushback
  • Forest Park conservationists challenge PGE project
  • New bill adds pathway to increase doctors
  • ODFW removes elephant seal from beach for spring break
  • Portland weighs ban on using algorithms to set rents
  • PSU Reaches Tentative Agreement With Faculty Union
  • Push for special ed funding in $11B education budget
  • Sen. Nash: Fix for wolf compensation program
  • Senate passes SB 945, help for foster youth
  • Treasurer Steiner decries proposed Medicaid cuts
  • Trump ends covid funds for state health depts
  • Voluntary pay-by-mile program is 10 years old