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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
    • March 31, 2025
  • New bill proposes repealing vote-by-mail in Oregon, public invited to testify
  • Trump turns homelessness response away from housing, toward forced treatment
  • Stop the “kill petition bill” SJR 30 — Call today
  • A personal point of privilege: The Quiet Thinning of the Legislative Herd
  • Problems with big baseball bill SB110 — Hearing today
  • Response to OHA report — 8% increase in assisted suicide prescriptions
  • As Oregon ages, tax revenue may shrink
  • BLM seeking public comment for S. E. Oregon lithium-drilling project
  • Garbage company, gravel mine among those fined by DEQ in February
  • Key OBI competitiveness villa advances to house floor
  • City of Pendleton increases water, sewer rates April 1
  • North Bend & Coos Bay bring back community cleanup event after five-year hiatus
  • Oregon cities urge property tax reform amid budget crisis
  • Residents rally against proposed closure of St. Johns Community Center
  • Where Salem ranks in list of best US state capitals to live in 2025
  • U of O, faculty union pauses strike after reaching tentative agreement
  • Protesters smash hotel for daring to call cops
  • Ringleader in Portland burglary spree sentenced to 9yr in prison
  • Smelt poachers caught with over a ton of fish during one-day season
    • March 30, 2025
  • Mass firing: Sen. Hatfield's Peace Institute
  • Ready for underwater power line in Columbia River?
  • Skyrocketing wildfire insurance rates
  • Rep Yunker: Discriminatory education bills not legal
  • UPS announces local layoffs
  • Kotek declares flood emergency
  • State review of OHSU takeover of Legacy Health
  • Clean Water Services reels from scandalous reports
  • Sen. Brock Smith: OMNI-Gun bill won't reduce gun deaths
  • Forest Park conservationists challenge PGE project approval
  • Oregon Dem Rep scrambles to clarify post that RFK Jr. is ‘not wrong'
  • Oregon fire crews 'happy to return favor' to North Carolina
  • People using Death With Dignity Act declines
  • Protests targeting federal government actions erupt across the PNW
  • Judge slams brakes on city's homeless crackdown, halting ban on encampments
  • Man who escaped Tacoma ICE facility caught in Beaverton
  • SJR 30 shuts down your petition rights