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April 03, 2025
  • Bill allowed School employees unemployment on breaks
  • DHS terminates UO foreign student's visa
  • Crackdown: 'Portland Sunday Market' selling drugs
  • Rumor: 20-cent gas tax increase
  • Multco Survey: Workplace ethics are 'bleak'
  • Fed cuts ends math, literacy programs
  • OR AG to host town halls on ‘federal accountability'
  • Oregon gas pumps ranked 5th most expensive
  • Petition Busting Bill: 180 opposed. 16 support
  • Oregon can't afford untold costs of tobacco flavor ban
  • Adoptees reflect on 50th anniversary of Operation Babylift
  • Changing the Use of a Building Triggers a Hidden Cost
  • ClackCo public employee union votes to strike
  • Crater Lake closing to swimmers, boaters for 3 years
  • Environmental groups win old-growth suit in S. OR.
  • FedEx worker attacked by homeless person's dog
  • Lawmakers kill bill to decriminalize child prostitution
  • MultCo commissioners propose limit on chair's power
  • ODOT's Alternative to the Gas Tax Is Stuck in Neutral
  • Open primaries bill will not advance
  • Opinion: Kotek's list of 3 goals missing a critical fourth
  • Oregon settles with ODOT whistleblower
  • Portland unanimously approves study of social housing
  • Portland's confusing public comment rules in new govt
  • Readers respond: Don't tax veterans out of Oregon
  • RFK Jr. directs closure of Head Start Regional Office
    • 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