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August 29, 2025
  • SEIU union roiled by racist meme
  • Feds to remove immigrants from Medicaid
  • Mail voting ban gains momentum
  • OR tax cut forecast may be wrong (like 2017)
  • 34 sheriffs back Marion Co. ICE lawsuit
  • Call lawmakers against HB 3991 — gas tax/wage tax
  • Firefighters arrested by ICE, companies lose contracts
  • Schools close early, 'extreme heat'
  • Oregon could join Hawaii in EV pay-per-mile fees
  • Treasurer: Tariffs to start hitting Oregon online purchases
  • Chavez-Deremer town hall at OR business
  • Hillsboro to open new 75-person homeless shelter
  • ICE operations will soon 'ramp up' in Portland
  • Intel took Trump deal for CHIPS Act funds — CFO: unsure if they would have met benchmarks
  • Portland cancels climate tax applications — in compliance with Trump DEI order
  • Southern Oregon University's financial plan
  • Thatcher: Stop the rush for more taxes
  • U of O Law School Dean Concedes Discrimination
    • August 28, 2025
  • OR budget has a $370M problem
  • Mayor Sending Homeless Back to Their Families
  • Feds may pull OR, WA education grants — over gender teaching
  • Bonham: Revenue falling, Dems push new taxes
  • Prosper Portland: $88 Million to Gateway — neightborhood got worse
  • Blue states that sued kept CDC grants
  • Developer Rallies Luminaries to Fight Foreclosure
  • Did gun background checks "surge" in OR?
  • E. PDX councilors reaching their constituents
  • Efforts to restore Deschutes R. not working
  • Gov pauses major solar project in central WA
  • Homeless started this fire
  • Hundreds oppose detox center next to school
  • OHSU responds to report on sexual misconduct
  • OR seniors win tax cut in Big Beautiful Bill
  • Portland Begins Search for City Administrator
  • Portland councilors to travel to Austria
  • PPS superintendent speaks on first day of school
  • PPS talks consolidation of elementary schools
  • Questions About Ex-Preschool for All Director
  • Readers: Speak up against more taxes
  • Trees left after Labor Day Fires are dying
  • WA state agency suspends IT rebuild — 10 years, $30 million spent
    • August 27, 2025
  • DeRemer hopes for Trump Portland ‘crackdown'
  • PPS broaches topic of consolidation
  • $50k school $$ on failed homeless camp
  • Man sentenced for 5 fraud COVID aid fund scams
  • Big lift of switching Bend to electrification
  • Of 2894 Capitol testimonies, 93% against gas tax
  • Editorial: Tell legislators how the state should pay for transportation
  • OPINION: U.S. Rep. Bentz responds to Kotek's partisan take on the OBBB
  • 70 active NW fires (map)
  • Data centers, not households, to shoulder energy costs under new law
  • Debate builds ahead of Oregon's special session on $5.8B
  • Oregon counties to choose solar farm siting path
  • Oregon gas prices remain quiet ahead of Labor Day
  • Emigrant Fire explodes to 6,000 acres near Oakridge
  • Fred Meyer lays off nearly 100 at Portland corporate office
  • Metro Chamber president blames county chair for violence at Central Library
  • Portland to raise parking meter rate, extend hours
  • Central Oregon school districts release plans for phone policy
  • Western U receives 150-acre land gift to expand health care education in Oregon