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August 09, 2025
  • Kotek ODOT funding includes gas tax, fee hikes, payroll tax
  • Does Kotek have the votes to pass transportation package?
  • Oregon's farms and land-use advocates square off over farmstand rules
  • Kotek vetoes cattle preg check bill
  • Lars Larson: Daycare that costs $92k per kid in taxpayer cash?
  • Ethics commission pursues legislative action, revision on meetings policy
  • Examining the causes and impacts of Oregon's declining fertility rate
  • Intel CEO responds to criticism about investments in Chinese companies
  • Mortgage rates fall to 10 month low, offering relief for Portland buyers
  • Mysterious Liquor sales ballot measure crosses another threshold
  • New law strengthens oversight of residential care facilities in Oregon
  • Oregon Medicaid insurer dropping non-contracted behavior health providers
  • Providence to lay off 128 Oregon workers as cost-cutting continues
  • Business-led group wants to ban new homeless services in downtown Pendleton
  • Oregon hydropower lawsuit tossed
  • Portland, to pay $3.75M to estate of unarmed man fatally shot by police
  • 5 illegal tow operations busted
    • August 08, 2025
  • OR Dems cheer Texas walkout, GOP sees hypocrisy
  • Portland pledges 'unified housing strategy'
  • Portland rioters hospitalize another reporter
  • PPS Enrollment Forecast: Continued Decline
  • $3.75 million settlement for wrongful shooting
  • Authorities investigating arson near Yakima ICE facility
  • Bentz outspent every House member on inauguration
  • Judge Issues Injunction in OR Humanities Lawsuit
  • Kotek approves Willamette Falls project
  • Kotek Signs Dry Needling Bill Into Law
  • Metal detectors coming to Portland library?
  • National Weather Svc to resume hiring in OR
  • New Trump admin map of sanctuary cities
  • Oregon #1 for recall attempts
  • Oregon could lose $87M for rooftop solar
  • Processed food consumption declining in US
  • Rep. Drazan on Gov. Kotek's road tax plan
  • Some counties 2 deaths for each baby born
  • Trump says Intel CEO must resign immediately
  • What's offered at new overnight shelters
    • August 07, 2025
  • Gateway's demise signals frustrations in E. Portland
  • PGE customers could face another rate hike
  • St Helens sued again over public records
  • Trouble in our State's women's prison
  • $1.8 million stolen from carbon credits program
  • Constitution Party challenges voter rolls
  • Court ruling could lead to more wolf protections
  • Effort to Index Preschool for All Tax Hits Snags
  • Gerrymandering depends on eye of beholder
  • Hotels dump mattresses on street for homeless
  • Kotek signs 4 new mental health bills
  • Lawmaker calls for better disaster preparedness
  • Mayor met with NBA commish to talk Trail Blazers
  • Message thread of progressive Portland councilors
  • New day centers for homeless in Portland
  • Oregon judge blocks more Trump cuts
  • Portland NAACP blasts mayor over DEI
  • PPS superintendent talks AI with Kaepernick
  • PSU change in DEI has 'nothing to do' with Trump
  • Rockwood grant application will not be disclosed
  • State workers get pay raise, more remote work
  • Trump cancels Idaho wind farm
  • Vega Pederson addresses Preschool for All scandal