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Oregon needs to build 29,500 more homes each year, chief economist says
Oregon needs to build about 29,500 more homes each year, mostly in the Portland region and Willamette Valley, to emerge from a housing shortage years ...
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Oregon advocates seek state food aid for immigrants excluded by feds
Oregon lawmakers and food advocates are starting smaller this year in their bid to make cash food benefits available to immigrants who are ineligible under ...
by Staff reports, Monday, January 27, 2025 6:46 pm
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Oregon courts purge 47,000 past evictions from people’s records
The Oregon state courts system has sealed about 47,000 evictions from Oregonians’ records, the Oregon Judicial Department said. The department sealed the residential evictions from ...
by Staff reports, Monday, January 27, 2025 9:24 am
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Water tops list of 2025 environmental priorities for Oregon governor, advisor
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and her natural resources adviser Geoff Huntington consider water quality and availability a top priority this legislative session. In separate interviews ...
by Staff reports, Monday, January 27, 2025 8:57 am
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Oregon government ethics commission will probe Kotek’s spending on parking, dinner
Saying they needed more information, members of the Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted Friday to investigate Gov. Tina Kotek’s reported spending on parking, concert tickets ...
by Staff reports, Monday, January 27, 2025 8:37 am
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Oregon lawmaker targets surprise fees
An Oregon lawmaker’s pricier-than-expected trip to a minor league baseball game could lead to a state law blocking surprise fees and forcing vendors to be ...
by Staff reports, Friday, January 24, 2025 7:56 am
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Capital Chatter: Governing begins with inauguration, pledges of accountability
“The devil,” the sages have said, “is in the details.” Or, in a newer version of the idiom, “Governing is in the details.” As House ...
by Staff reports, Thursday, January 23, 2025 5:00 pm
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Judge grants WA’s request to temporarily block Trump’s birthright citizenship order
A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour’s ...
by Staff reports, Thursday, January 23, 2025 4:17 pm
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Oregon insiders: Who’s who in and around state government
Jill Bakken started work this week as communications director for House Speaker Julie Fahey, D-Eugene. She previously handled communications for Rise Partnership and SEIU Local ...
by Staff reports, Thursday, January 23, 2025 11:00 am
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Act would pause new PERS investments in private fossil fuel funds for five years
Two Democratic state senators and the advocacy group Divest Oregon are backing a bill to curb fossil fuel investments in the state’s public pension system ...