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July 16, 2025
  • Nonprofit exploited to cash in on Amazon data centers
  • Schools brace for cuts as Trump withholds $$
  • Intel's retreat unlike anything it's done before
  • AG let campaign donors lead crypto case
  • Trump dumps Portland grant ($2B boondoggle, director resigns)
  • Officials reverse on inner tubes rule for new boat fee
  • ICE lawyer denies ‘race for the border' as detainees transferred to Tacoma
  • Sen. Bonham: BLM closed public land over homeless camps
  • Interior Dept. OKs $31M in payments in lieu of taxes (PILT) for Oregon counties
  • Oregon BOLI gets $19M budget boost for wage claim backlog
  • Oregon comment on latest small business optimism index
  • Oregon wins big opioid settlement
  • Rep. Mannix launches new anti-crime ballot measure
  • Portland halts $38M street makeover after Trump bill slashes funding
  • Rioters post ICE family photos, addresses on street poles
  • Warren Buffett bets on Portland with $88M apartment purchase
  • OSU to end 2 DEI programs this fall
  • Stolen steam shovel crashes bank, steals ATM
    • July 15, 2025
  • Intel layoffs ripple across Oregon economy
  • Judge releases trans migrant detained outside courtroom
  • Why WashCo officials may end annual Hawaii trips
  • Washington Co. seeks 68% property tax hike
  • Oregon farm workers face ICE fears
  • Rare blue whales spotted off Depoe Bay
  • Kotek declares first drought emergency
  • Oregon receives $10M in opioid settlement
  • BPA faces suit over energy market decision
  • Lars Larson: BLM passes on $100M, 800 jobs
  • Caution as 7 large fires burn across state
  • George B. Lopez named new director of ODHS Office of Tribal Affairs 
  • Oregon Dept. of State Lands gets new leader in scientist and lawyer
  • Who will replace Deschutes Co. Sheriff van der Kamp?
  • Grant County Regional Airport receives FAA grant
  • Oregon State Fire Marshal to assist with Cram Fire
  • Portland could risk losing $387M in Fed grants due to DEI order
  • Oregon schools may lose $73M as a result of federal grant cuts
    • July 14, 2025
  • Rep. Gomberg fixed his roads with Fed $$
  • Kotek scrambles to save ODOT Union jobs
  • DHS: ICE officers doxxed by antifa
  • Kotek gives 2 senators an escape hatch
  • ODOT asked to close Stayton park
  • Against the odds rural Oregon won
  • UPTD dir. aims to change the way Oregon votes
  • Shelob's (Kotek) silly revenge
  • HB2089 ends home equity theft
  • Warning grows. Blazers risk leaving Oregon
  • 1,400-acre Cram Fire north of Madras prompts evacuation warnings
  • 2K waiting for tardy Health Plan rent checks
  • Here's what's happening at the upcoming Portland City Council meetings
  • Highland Fire near Prineville triggers evacuations, grows to 1,500 acres
  • Committee approves limited changes for Oregon high school rankings