Opinion
Capital Chatter: Learning from the failures of the 2025 session
Politicians love to recount their successes. But learning from one’s failures is more valuable. Long ago, former Senate ...
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Oregon insiders: Who’s who in and around state government
Andrew Stolfi, who took over June 23 as director of the Oregon Employment Department, made key executive appointments: ...
Opinion
Capital Chatter: Democracy is a messy business — even in Oregon
The 2025 Oregon Legislature exemplified the Founders’ warning. Democracy – even the representative democracy the Founders established – ...
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Oregon insiders: Who’s who in and around state government
Marie Atwood is the new director of the Professional Standards Division at the Department of Public Safety Standards ...
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Capital Chatter: Strange end to the 2025 session
With mere hours left before it must end, the 2025 Oregon Legislature has exceeded expectations: It’s stranger, clunkier ...
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Government
‘One Big Beautiful Bill’, Bentz draw fierce backlash from Oregon Democrats, nurses
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed H.R. 1, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” sending ...
Columnists
Commentary: The road to transportation funding is long
The debate over paying for transportation needs in Oregon may have paused with the end of the legislative ...
Crime & Justice
Oregon police erred in use of aerial surveillance camera for marijuana bust, appeals court says
The ruling was lauded by civil rights advocates and privacy watchdogs fresh off of a fight in the ...
Government
Oregon Democrats slam Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ urge Rep. Cliff Bentz to vote against it
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s Democratic congressional delegation are speaking out against President Donald Trump’s proposed ...
Government
Oregon lawmakers regulate guns, public defense, while crime victim, exoneree funding stall
Bills that would have funded care for crime victims and those who have been wrongfully incarcerated languished in ...
Government
Oregon, Washington sue Trump admin for sharing Medicaid files with immigration enforcement
Oregon and Washington’s attorneys general are suing the federal government for sharing residents’ Medicaid records with federal immigration ...
Business
Gov. Kotek launches new agency to fast-track housing construction
The “doors are open” on a new state office charged with meeting Gov. Tina Kotek’s goal of getting ...
Business
ODOT director calls legislature’s transportation bill failure ‘shocking,’ ‘scary’ warns of layoffs
In an email to ODOT staff Saturday, Director Kris Strickland said the agency will be forced to eliminate ...
Business
Statewide minimum wage increases 35 cents, the lowest rise in ten years
The standard statewide hourly wage will rise to $15.05 per hour, while Portland’s minimum wage will rise to ...
Business
Oregon Legislature’s last-ditch attempt for 3-cent gas tax increase fails
Oregon Democrats’ last-ditch effort to stave off hundreds of layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation by passing ...
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Gov. Kotek blames transportation bill failure on Republicans ‘who just wanted to go home’
Gov. Tina Kotek blamed Republicans for the state Legislature’s failure to pass a bill this session that would ...
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Oregon Legislature wraps for 2025 after eleventh-hour strife, historic funding shortfall
Democrats faced a high-profile loss after failing to pass a dramatically watered-down transportation funding package Oregon lawmakers closed ...
Government
Transportation package clears committee hurdle, goes to Oregon House for Friday vote
It’s been a bumpy road for the now $11.7 billion Transportation Reinvestment Package that moves closer to passage ...
Environment
Two Republican state senators attempt to kill bipartisan proposal to raise lodging tax for wildlife
Raising the state hotel tax by 1.25 percentage points could send millions to the Fish and Wildlife Department, ...
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Oregon insiders: Who’s who in and around state government
Brittney Greene was promoted to interim human resources director at the Oregon Department of Revenue. She replaces Katie ...
Business
Oregon House introduces scaled-down transportation bill with days left in session
The latest proposal is unpopular with Republicans and some rank-and-file Democrats who said they’ve not had enough time ...
Business
Lawmakers, Secretary of State back delaying 2024 Oregon campaign finance law from taking effect
An unremarkable, technical fix bill could be used to delay the state’s 2024 campaign finance law limiting contributions ...
Government
Minnesota assassination prompts many lawmakers to wonder: Is service worth the danger?
The shooting prompted Oregon Sen. Jeff Golden to reflect on the importance of attacking ideas, not people A ...
Business
Oregon lawmakers tuck $1 billion into late-session ‘Christmas tree’ spending bill
House Bill 5006 includes money for natural disasters, raises, museums and more Oregon lawmakers on Tuesday approved $1 ...
Business
Oregon Senate rejects bill making big tech pay for local journalism as session end nears
The bill’s author told the Capital Chronicle after the vote that she would be reintroducing the bill next ...