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Capital Chatter: Oregon mourns
This has been the summer of awfulness in Oregon. Pandemic. Shuttered businesses. Lost jobs. Drought. Unemployment fiascos. Chaos…
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Capital Chatter: Gov. Brown has hands full with two crises
Over breakfast recently, a longtime Oregon Democrat and political observer mused that Gov. Kate Brown’s muddled response to…
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Capital Chatter: Oregon’s ironic pandemic response
Local officials across Oregon got a verbal spanking from the governor last week. It didn’t sit well. County…
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Capital Chatter: Good news for Oregonians
Good news for Oregonians! Well, for some Oregonians. Depending on where you live and how patient you are.…
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OSU-Cascades again left off state building plan
In the dead of the night, in the 11th hour, Oregon State University-Cascades’s proposed Student Success Center was…
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Capital Chatter: Who killed statesmanship in Oregon?
If this week’s legislative session were a murder-mystery game, it might be called “The Case of the Oregon…
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Boredom and bombast at Salem’s special session
The second special session of the Oregon Legislature on Monday careened between boredom and anger, spiritual quotes and…
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Oregon lawmakers move ahead with special-session bills
Oregon lawmakers were poised Monday to achieve their special-session aims by cutting spending and rebalancing the state budget,…
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Capital Chatter: Oregon Employment Department’s terrible, no good, very bad pandemic
This has been a week of bad news, worse news and occasional good news in Oregon government. But…
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Oregon lawmakers deadlock on federal funds for personal protective equipment
Oregon lawmakers approved $94 million more to expand coronavirus testing and contact tracing, but deadlocked on $105 million…