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June 11, 2025
  • Oregon clean energy company files for bankruptcy, $300 million in debt
  • Portland Public Schools board finalizes budget with $40M in cuts
  • Demonstrations continue outside Portland ICE facility
  • Kotek fails Insurrection Act quiz
  • Portland's largest public health provider is bracing for large cuts
  • Beaverton school board member faces heat after calling “Teaching Palestine” workshop ‘divisive'
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  • Utilities barred from shutting off power during heat waves
  • Councilors brought mayor concerns about text thread
  • Oregon DMV warns of latest text, email scam demanding payment
  • Warrant out for Beaverton hit-and-run suspect after he removes GPS monitor
  • Bill to grant striking workers unemployment pay fails final vote in Oregon Senate
  • Protesters to mobilize in Portland against Trump
  • Environment, social justice groups withdraw support for Kotek's groundwater protection bill
  • Bend's housing inventory is the highest in more than a decade
    • June 10, 2025
  • Kotek: Trump has no right to deploy Guard against Portland rioters
  • HB 2025 has 11 new taxes. Gas/Wage/Car tax.
  • Nation's strictest limits on health care bill signed
  • Could Trump deploy OR National Guard?
  • Oregon lawmakers release full bill for statewide transportation package
  • De-escalate to stop riot? Portland did and riots lasted 120 days!
  • Oregon law aims at data centers, who's still paying the price?
  • Concerns over SB916, the strike bill
  • Kotek vetoes bill to audit Oregon's kindergarten assessments
  • Lawmakers pass bill to keep medical debt off credit reports
  • Oregon ‘freedom to read' library bill heads to governor's desk
  • ‘Free Kill' law limits who can sue for medical malpractice
  • A complete list of all the Rite Aid pharmacies closing in Oregon
  • Concerns around police drone use in Oregon
  • Jury awards $1.3M to fired Toledo city recorder in whistleblower case
  • New fencing to prevent homeless camping at 1 site in Portland will cost $900K
  • Portland finishes installing 15K cooling units and 10K more by 2026
  • Criminal Alien of the Week Report June, 9, 2025
    • June 09, 2025
  • Kotek: Trump's National Guard use ‘alarming abuse of power'
  • SOU President: Universities face $$ ‘crisis'
  • After pressure, Kotek approves extradition
  • Blinders on, lawmakers press on with SB 916
  • Gas tax version #3. Trump hits Oregon elections. Sen. Merkley retires?
  • Oregon Secretary of State: priorities and trust-building efforts
  • Duo headlines explains Oregon eternal flubbing
  • Klamath Co. considering employee buyout programs — budget shortfall
  • More Oregon workers are part time as labor market cools
  • State bill orders Coffin Butte Landfill to watch its methane
  • Understanding Oregon's Labor Force: Estimates from current survey
  • Central OR newspaper wins 2 N.W. Emmys for investigative and feature reporting
  • Gearhart wants its own water rights
  • Oregon wildfire jumps from 50 to 750 acres in single day, crews battle overnight
  • OHSU board considers former VA official Shereef Elnahal for top job
  • Secret indictment reveals more details about Gresham teacher suspected of child sex crimes