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April 24, 2026
  • Home Forward Sent 10 Staff on Orlando Junket
  • Nike eliminates more than 1,400 jobs
  • Portland police chief cautions about budget cuts
  • Study: OR housing among the least affordable
  • (don't be surprised) 7 key measures on local ballot
  • Adair saved taxpayers $200K by rejecting Gov't pension
  • DEQ fines Pacific Seafood $3.2 million for water pollution
  • Former Milwaukie mayor, wife dead in murder-suicide
  • Kotek signs growth boundary expansion bills
  • Lane Community College implements program cuts
  • Mayor who pledged to end homeless in 1 year finds 2,700 more! — oops
  • Metro president faces four challengers in May
  • New law regulates use of license plate data
  • New website, WahtsValHiding.com, documents corruption
  • Oregon Education Association Is Mighty but Slipping
  • Rep Javadi: I was wrong about abortion
  • TriMet to see more reductions, eliminations
  • ‘OPB Politics Now': budget cuts loom over Portland
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    April 23, 2026
  • Climate tax petition in Eugene
  • Dudley appears to change abortion views
  • 2 Republicans try to flip most competitive district
  • Lawmakers warn USPS on executive order — unconstitutional?
  • Oregon among the worst states for businesses failing in 1st year
  • DeSpain blows Hoyle away on fundraising
  • Kotek signs bills on housing supply, tightening rules
  • Home Forward Cannot Produce Details of CEO's 2024 HI trip
  • Portland councilors to probe undisclosed housing funds
  • Counties get $100M from Secure Rural Schools
  • Huge variation in instructional time for OR students
  • Lars Larson: How Diehl can pull it off
  • Medics 'rescue' homeless drunk man 5x in 1 day
  • Portland School Board to Reconsider Foundations
  • PPS Seeks Emission Reductions With New Buildings
  • What PPS Loses if It Closes a Title I School
  • Would a Vacancy Tax Work?
    • April 22, 2026
  • Oregon's powerful union rebels against Democrats
  • Rain is regulated: Oregon's rules on collecting water from the sky
  • New poll: Drazan holds sizable lead
  • Pacific Rim Winemakers bankruptcy hits Oregon hard
  • High taxes spur wave of black-market hot dog carts
  • Forest Service limits Huckleberry harvests (treaty rights)
  • Can they do it again with referral?
  • Lars Larson: The problems over Chavez-DeRemer
  • Businesses, labor unions file suit over Oregon climate rules
  • Can prediction markets tell us anything about Oregon's governor's race?
  • Mistaken shutoffs prompt call for NW Natural to repay customers
  • Multnomah Co DA crusades against proposed budget, again
  • Program could pay Klamath farmers to idle fields
  • Candidate Max Sherman has best campaign sign duo
  • Hermiston Councilor proposed $100K-plus salaries for council, mayor
  • Real Estate investors profit from long-term care while residents languish
  • PPS virtual forum gets ‘Zoom-bombed' with depictions of swastikas, genitalia
  • Bandon zoo owner pleads guilty to 47 animal neglect, drug and weapons charges
  • Portland firefighter turns himself in after allegedly uploading child porn