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June 27, 2025
  • Dem scramble over transportation package
  • Liberals pass largest tax in Oregon history
  • City council expands Portland Street Response
  • Eastern Oregon nuclear energy push stalls out
  • Gun control measure passes House — bans bump stocks, guns in buildings

  • Hunters and Environmentalists Support Lodging Tax
  • Kotek digs in heels on universal preschool — says it cannot keep its promise
  • Kotek signs $800 million baseball stadium bill
  • Kotek Vetoes Three Bills Relating to Child Welfare
  • Lars: Lawmakers legacy of failure, weakness, debt
  • Mannix: Why I voted for transportation tax bill
  • Metro tweaks homeless tax calculation
  • Microgrids a step closer to reality for Oregon
  • Portland ICE protests continue
  • Portland's long-winded city councilors
  • Privacy and police surveillance concerns in S. OR
  • State Hospital provides patients with sex toys
  • Unity defeats anti-2nd Amendment bill in House
  • WA owes millions in drug conviction refunds
  • Washington Co. forwards public safety levy
  • Yes to amendment to stop the pre-school tax
  • June 26, 2025
  • Democrats unveil new road funding plan, as time runs short
  • Metro president: Portland in critical condition
  • Washington Co. addresses DEI resolution
  • The perilous (Dem) supermajority
  • Bentz opposes federal land sales
  • $2B gas tax bill hearing Thursday
  • Neighbors upset over Pearl District shelter
  • Senate overrides veto of foster children bill
  • AG affirms hospital emergency abortion duty
  • Bill to make Big Tech pay local news dies
  • Construction to resume on Bull Run treatment plant
  • County defends tuition-free universal preschool
  • George Washington statue returned … to London
  • Kotek signs bill for unemployment pay for strikers
  • Lawmakers approve limits on utility rate hikes
  • Lender Seeks Foreclosure on Prominent Developer — Downtown Real Estate Crisis Deepens
  • Mental health treatment bill moves forward
  • Minimum wage rises again in July
  • MultCo: 'groundbreaking' partnership with OHSU-PSU
  • MultCo: sobering services without police
  • NTSB blames systemic failures for door plug blowout
  • OR foster parent recruiters use AI to match families
  • OR joins states suing Trump admin over cuts
  • Oswego Lake closing for July 4th weekend
  • Owens Corning to close Prineville facility
  • Panel will scrutinize the vaccine schedule for kids
  • Portland reverses vote to withhold youth grants
  • Portland Tribune to stop publishing print edition
  • State grant for Willamette Falls stokes tensions
  • June 25, 2025
  • Late session farm estate tax revisions
  • Minimum wage will rise on July 1
  • Dozens of flights into PDX dropped
  • Late bill gives lawmakers control of ballot language
  • Mass chaos in final 100 hours of session
  • ICE detains Iranian man on his way to gym
  • Lawmakers ambush of preschool tax gives Kotek nuclear option
  • Protesters gather for anti-ICE ‘Block Party'
  • $122M Google tax failed to pass (SB686)
  • Big hotel tax to fund animals (HB 2977 hearing)
  • Central Oregon door factory will shut down, lay off more than 180
  • Kotek signs jobless $$ for strikers (SB 916)
  • Majority oppose $15B tax hike in HB 2025 poll shows
  • New Oregon law hides officials' personal info amid escalating threats
  • Oregon House passes bill to repeal statewide wildfire hazard map
  • Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map repealed by legislature
  • Oregon's first measles case confirmed in Multnomah County
  • Tension ramps up as Legislature session winds down
  • Oregon couple sues Union Pacific over devastating Rowena Fire
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