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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 ...
Politicians love to recount their successes. But learning from one’s failures is more valuable. Long ago, former Senate ...
Andrew Stolfi, who took over June 23 as director of the Oregon Employment Department, made key executive appointments: ...
The 2025 Oregon Legislature exemplified the Founders’ warning. Democracy – even the representative democracy the Founders established – ...
Marie Atwood is the new director of the Professional Standards Division at the Department of Public Safety Standards ...
With mere hours left before it must end, the 2025 Oregon Legislature has exceeded expectations: It’s stranger, clunkier ...
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed H.R. 1, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” sending ...
The debate over paying for transportation needs in Oregon may have paused with the end of the legislative ...
The ruling was lauded by civil rights advocates and privacy watchdogs fresh off of a fight in the ...
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s Democratic congressional delegation are speaking out against President Donald Trump’s proposed ...
Bills that would have funded care for crime victims and those who have been wrongfully incarcerated languished in ...
Oregon and Washington’s attorneys general are suing the federal government for sharing residents’ Medicaid records with federal immigration ...
The “doors are open” on a new state office charged with meeting Gov. Tina Kotek’s goal of getting ...
In an email to ODOT staff Saturday, Director Kris Strickland said the agency will be forced to eliminate ...
The standard statewide hourly wage will rise to $15.05 per hour, while Portland’s minimum wage will rise to ...
Oregon Democrats’ last-ditch effort to stave off hundreds of layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation by passing ...
Gov. Tina Kotek blamed Republicans for the state Legislature’s failure to pass a bill this session that would ...
Democrats faced a high-profile loss after failing to pass a dramatically watered-down transportation funding package Oregon lawmakers closed ...
It’s been a bumpy road for the now $11.7 billion Transportation Reinvestment Package that moves closer to passage ...
Raising the state hotel tax by 1.25 percentage points could send millions to the Fish and Wildlife Department, ...
Brittney Greene was promoted to interim human resources director at the Oregon Department of Revenue. She replaces Katie ...
The latest proposal is unpopular with Republicans and some rank-and-file Democrats who said they’ve not had enough time ...
An unremarkable, technical fix bill could be used to delay the state’s 2024 campaign finance law limiting contributions ...
The shooting prompted Oregon Sen. Jeff Golden to reflect on the importance of attacking ideas, not people A ...
House Bill 5006 includes money for natural disasters, raises, museums and more Oregon lawmakers on Tuesday approved $1 ...
The bill’s author told the Capital Chronicle after the vote that she would be reintroducing the bill next ...