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August 30, 2025
  • Special session delayed: Republicans unveil their transportation proposal
  • Trump administration targets Oregon sex-ed program over gender identity
  • Oregon rescinds free cleanup offer for wildfire-ravaged community
  • GOP: Push to ban Oregon mail-in voting gains ‘momentum'
  • Lars Larson: Last minute gas tax mischievousness
  • Rep. Reschke: Gas tax bill is making everything worse
  • Special Session (gas tax) flops on day #1. Mass confusion.
  • Stapilus: Oregon's different way on liquor store privatization
  • Big Oregon hospitals were hemorrhaging money early this year
  • Can Trump deploy the National Guard in Oregon? Yes and no
  • FDA's new COVID vaccine recommendations cause confusion, uncertainty in Ore.
  • Fed court upholds ruling in Oregon-led lawsuit against Trump tariffs
  • Sen. Wyden: Trump plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children
  • Groups rally in support of and against transportation package
  • Local solution in Harney County. Basin groundwater rule making
  • Portland recovers $6.7M from scam targeting Water Bureau
  • Editorial: Retirement costs are going to continue to impact schools
  • DOJ warning of new scam impersonating Oregon attorneys
  • Illegal cannabis operation busted, 2 arrested, $790K seized
    • 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