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June 05, 2025
  • Dems propose massive taxes for transit, pedestrians
  • 34 arrested in retail crime sweep
  • House OKs unemployment for strikers
  • Lawmakers: 100% gas tax hike, 400% wage tax hike
  • Rep. Bynum: "Give' Em Hell Tour" to trash Trump
  • Bill shields utility rate hikes from Big Tech
  • PERS: contribution rate decrease for schools
  • Lars Larson: More Kotek wife trouble brewing
  • Attorneys, police square off over personnel files
  • Bill restricts rental application fees
  • City council hires consultant to learn its function
  • Downtown Portland task force sets goals
  • Drazan: Road tax scheme adds billions in taxes
  • Friends of Frog Ferry continues push for river transit
  • Is Senator Merkley running for re-election?
  • Jury rules in favor of black firefighter in Portland
  • Kotek's $217M homeless shelter bill in trouble
  • Local jails ramping up for ICE detentions
  • Massive recovery grant after 2020 fires remains unspent
  • More homeless women in Portland give birth on street
  • Multnomah pumps brakes on shelter
  • ODOT: $83M in disaster grants
  • Oregon's Psychedelic Service Centers Are Closing
  • Prosper Portland Dir. Steps Down
  • Report: Oregon 'Weak' in Elementary Math
  • Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park resigns
  • Uber urges Portland riders to oppose fee hikes
    • June 04, 2025
  • ODOT managers: In the dark, Everything a crisis
  • Ethics ends review of Kotek's office spending
  • Trans asylum seeker detained by ICE outside courtroom
  • Gov to have more say in vacant Senate seats
  • SB 1095 hearing: Fees on vacant homes.
  • Armed Uber driver demands tip
  • Sen. Reynolds cleared over conflict of interest
  • Infant care in Oregon averages more than $19K a year
  • Interim directors run much of Multnomah
  • Slate of bills to modernize water laws
  • Email trail: Portland Fire Bureau contradicts itself
  • Crater Lake superintendent resigns, citing staff shortages
  • People rally outside Capitol for freedom, low taxes
  • Multnomah invests $250K in projects to boost neighborhood vitality
  • Downtown economic recovery to be focus of Chamber
  • Oregon governor requests federal funding to support aftermath of spring floods
  • Army Corps sees 50% funding drop for salmon restoration
  • Remote train derails in Klamath County
    • June 03, 2025
  • Lawmakers float cap-and-trade for transportation package
  • Trump cancels 4 Employment Dept. grants
  • Official ordered trans athlete protester 'get out of photo'
  • Chief, Mayor on UGM stabbing incident
  • Big gas tax/road tax deal narrows to four taxes
  • Right to Repair moves to Gov's desk
  • Proposal to limit bills to 25 per lawmaker — GOP: Affront to us and rural Oregonians
  • Clean energy must support workers, not undermine them
  • Crater Lake chief resigns, cites staff shortages
  • Kotek notes safety tips, vital search and rescue teams' work
  • Legislative Ag update
  • Oregon public defense leader reveals new plan to stem legal crisis
  • Oregon timber sale brings in nearly $6 million
  • Eugene leaders ask for transparency after Kotek denied fugitive extradition
  • Grain elevator near the Rose Quarter catches fire, again
  • Oregon Citizens Day at the Capitol 6/3
  • Oregon coast reopens to razor clam harvesting
  • Inventor makes better tidegate, mutes farm-fish clash