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Capital Chatter: Oregon broke the Legislature this week
Oregonians broke the Legislature this week. OK, not the Legislature per se, just its public online system – ...
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Oregon insiders: Who’s who in and around state government
Sen. Aaron Woods, D-Wilsonville, periodically has been absent from the Oregon Capitol for medical treatment. In light of ...
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Oregon Democrats unveil $1.9 billion transportation funding plan
Oregonians would pay more at the pump, higher fees when they buy a car or bike and see ...
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After false starts, Oregon wolf compensation reform gains traction
After a couple of false starts, legislation intended to reform Oregon’s compensation policy for wolf killings of livestock ...
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Climate disasters are on the rise. These states want to make oil companies pay.
For many California residents, the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year were the latest and most searing example ...
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Judge blocks Gov. Kotek’s union labor mandate for state construction
A Marion County judge has issued a temporary injunction blocking Gov. Tina Kotek’s executive order requiring union labor ...
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U.S. Supreme Court declines to revive landmark climate suit, ending decade-long fight led by 11 young Oregonians
The nation’s highest court declined to hear a petition that would have revived a landmark climate change lawsuit ...
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Trump wants more logging. He’ll need help from states like Oregon
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders to increase logging in national forests ...
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Proposal to send schools $35 million for summer programs comes with literacy strings attached
With just a few months to go before programs would begin, Oregon’s Legislature is once again scrambling to ...
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Capital Chatter: Happy Sunshine Week — Thank a journalist
Halfway through Sunshine Week, two influential Democratic legislators from Portland sat down with journalists to discuss the upcoming ...
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Oregon insiders: Who’s who in and around state government
Gov. Tina Kotek on Thursday announced a cascading series of leadership changes following Berri Leslie’s resignation as director ...
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Hundreds support pausing Oregon’s investment in private fossil fuel holdings but Treasury opposed
A bill to get the Oregon State Treasury to pause new pension investments in private assets and equity ...
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Wyden constituents in Central Oregon ask how to fight Trump
More than 1,300 people packed the Sisters High School gymnasium Tuesday evening to hear U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden ...
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Oregon lawmakers share $38 billion budget framework amid federal uncertainty
Oregon is in a better financial position than other states but could see its budget devastated by federal ...
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Bill that could have offered utilities protection from fire lawsuits gets fix
Oregon lawmakers on Tuesday tweaked a bill intended to increase fire mitigation to ensure it does not also ...
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Former national park superintendents say DOGE wiped out a generation of leaders
If Dan Wenk had been fired during his first year in a permanent job with the National Park ...
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Oregon, nine other states hit 2013 goal of getting 3.3 million electric vehicles on roads by 2025
Oregon and nine other states recently achieved a collective goal of shifting new car buyers toward electric rather ...
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Capital Chatter: Four ways federal turmoil can impact Oregon
Oregon legislators, be forewarned. Don’t be tempted to open the state’s checkbook again and again. The state, national ...
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Oregon insiders: Who’s who in and around state government
The Public Employees Retirement System hired Kristi Ivers as modernization program director. She was deputy chief information officer ...
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Oregon’s U.S. senators demand explanation for freeze on income-driven student loan repayment plans
More than 12 million Americans who took out loans from the U.S. Department of Education to attend college ...
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National Park Service director from Oregon returns home
PENDLETON — Even when he didn’t know it, Charles “Chuck” Sams always was going to come home. “Salmon ...
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Oregon lawmakers target plastic utensils, condiments, hotel toiletries with updated bag ban
Since the Oregon Legislature voted to ban single-use plastic grocery bags and limit plastic straws in 2019, most ...
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Oregon appeals court rules in favor of voter-approved gun control law Measure 114
Oregon’s second-highest court affirmed Wednesday that the voter-approved gun control law Measure 114 is constitutional, potentially clearing the ...
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Oregon Secretary of State Read withdraws scandal-marred marijuana audit that led to Fagan’s downfall
New Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read on Wednesday withdrew the scandal-marred audit of the state’s liquor and ...
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U.S. Senate confirms former Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary
One-term Oregon congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer successfully turned her election loss and closer-than-typical relationship with some unions into a ...