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November 21, 2025
  • Big problems at Oregon's labor watchdog
  • Chronic absenteeism rate: 33%
  • Portland City Council erupts into shouting match
  • Gas tax petition surge adds to Kotek's meltdown
  • Worker struck by tree cut for Oregon Capitol
  • Deschutes Co residents cry foul on mapping
  • Kotek's enviro-order creates unaffordability
  • Portland bans landlord software, tensions build
  • Deschutes Co commissioner to run for CD5
  • Flaws in how OR students are taught to read
  • Found money dramatically shrinks budget deficit
  • Kotek “re-signs” Gun Control Bill to get extra hype
  • Multnomah Co buildings ban concealed carry
  • OLCC creates new hemp rules
  • Portland housing director resigns
  • Providers say more drug treatment needed
  • TriMet announces layoffs and service cuts
  • ‘OPB Politics Now': OR education report card
    • November 20, 2025
  • Kotek signs gun control bill
  • Appeals Ct. allows Fed control of Guard
  • 67% say economy on wrong track
  • $300M surplus means no gas tax needed
  • Portland bans AI-assisted rent
  • Update: State budget deficit forecast drops
  • Emergency declared, main NW pipeline shuts down
  • Feds dispute Kotek claim troops released
  • Hillsboro tries to crack down on ICE tactics
  • $7M emergency funds for Planned Parenthood?
  • Hillsboro declares state of emergency over ICE
  • I-5 Bridge Program could give $140M to river users
  • ICE landlord's permit violation appeal extended
  • Kotek orders agencies to move on clean energy
  • Lars: Kotek's chickens come home to roost
  • Local sewer board scandal over subsidiary
  • New director of Oregon DHS
  • Operator of entertainment venues could change
  • OR colleges say no to Trump higher ed compact
  • OR Rep vows to complete term despite cancer
  • OR SoS questions DOJ, DHS on voter data use
  • PacifiCorp Agrees to Pay 1,400 Wildfire Survivors
  • Readers respond: rent software ban goes too far
  • Rep. Elmer on revenue forecast
  • Second Troubled Turnkey Project Prompts Questions
  • Slump in Luxury Apartment Starts — Could Hurt Cheaper Digs
  • Starr: No Justification for Higher Taxes
  • Task force to crack down on burglaries in Portland
  • Tigard city manager resigns — another leadership shakeup in 3 months
  • Tigard Mayor vows to improve leadership culture
  • TriMet announces spending cuts, budget shortfall
    • November 19, 2025
  • Thousands sign petitions to challenge tax
  • Kotek launched 9 “Statewide Resilience” meetings
  • Legislators hear ‘least worst options' for Ed $$ cuts
  • Economist: 9 factors in Portland's doom loop
  • Deschutes Comm. Patti Adair announces for Congress
  • Editorial: Oregon citizens waking up?
  • School says state scrimped on its poorest students
  • Why we don't copy petitions
  • Rep. Yunker: Education budget rewrite gets it wrong
  • Farm Bureau pushes back on ecord tax increases (petition)
  • Interstate Bridge Replacement $140M payout to 4 Columbia River users
  • OHA flags 5 health plans, providers for unreasonable spending
  • OR, WA demand answers from Trump administration over private voter data
  • Oregon National Guard will have to travel out of state to ‘demobilize'
  • Providence Oregon announces more job cuts
  • Should Oregon switch to open primaries?
  • Opinion: Why rural care matters
  • Oregon sees surge in wolf attacks on livestock in Eastern Oregon
  • Portland zeroes in on 3 finalists for powerful city post