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The longtime director of the Oregon agency tasked with caring for the state’s most vulnerable residents will retire this...
07/25/2025

The longtime director of the Oregon agency tasked with caring for the state’s most vulnerable residents will retire this fall.

The longtime director of the Oregon agency tasked with caring for the state’s most vulnerable residents will retire this fall.

Leaders of Oregon’s Department of Transportation issued their most dire warning to date Thursday about cuts to services,...
07/24/2025

Leaders of Oregon’s Department of Transportation issued their most dire warning to date Thursday about cuts to services, including road maintenance and snow plowing, if legislators don’t patch a $350 million hole in their budget.

The Oregon Transportation Commission on Tuesday also approved initial repairs as part of the I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project.

COMMENTARY from Randy Stapilus: Recent Morrow County lawsuit raises the questions: Who really owns and operates the serv...
07/24/2025

COMMENTARY from Randy Stapilus: Recent Morrow County lawsuit raises the questions: Who really owns and operates the services where you live? And what are the implications of that for you and your community?

Private organizations, nonprofit and for-profit, often are held out as superior actors to their governmental counterparts.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday agreed with a Seattle judge’s decision to universally block President Donald Trump’...
07/24/2025

A federal appeals court on Wednesday agreed with a Seattle judge’s decision to universally block President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.

A federal appeals court agreed with a judge’s decision to block President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.

Voters in eastern Oregon, Salem and other largely rural areas with prisons have a greater say in the state House than ot...
07/24/2025

Voters in eastern Oregon, Salem and other largely rural areas with prisons have a greater say in the state House than other Oregonians because of how the state calculates where incarcerated Oregonians reside, according to a report released by advocates Wednesday.

Voters in eastern Oregon, Salem and other largely rural areas with prisons have a greater say in the state House, a report alleges.

Oregon will receive federal emergency funding to support recovery efforts in three southwest counties that experienced i...
07/23/2025

Oregon will receive federal emergency funding to support recovery efforts in three southwest counties that experienced intense storms and floods in March.

Oregon will receive federal emergency funding to support recovery efforts in three southwest counties that experienced intense spring storms and floods.

Three top staffers who departed Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s office after issues tied to first lady Aimee Kotek Wilson have ...
07/23/2025

Three top staffers who departed Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s office after issues tied to first lady Aimee Kotek Wilson have formed a new public affairs and political strategy firm.

Three top staffers who departed Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s office have formed a new public affairs and political strategy firm.

Gov. Tina Kotek’s plan to prevent layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation and local governments around the st...
07/23/2025

Gov. Tina Kotek’s plan to prevent layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation and local governments around the state relies on a 6-cent gas tax increase, hikes to title and registration fees and doubling the payroll tax that funds transit.

Gov. Tina Kotek’s plan to prevent layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation relies on a 6-cent gas tax increase.

Months after Oregon signed an agreement with the computer chip company Nvidia to educate K-12 and college students about...
07/23/2025

Months after Oregon signed an agreement with the computer chip company Nvidia to educate K-12 and college students about artificial intelligence, details about how AI concepts and “AI literacy” will be taught to children as young as 5 remain unclear.

Oregon is one of several states making deals with the trillion-dollar chip maker to get artificial intelligence into K-12, college classes.

A state grant program to provide free preschool to kids from low-income families sent more than a million dollars in “po...
07/23/2025

A state grant program to provide free preschool to kids from low-income families sent more than a million dollars in “potentially wasteful” payments to preschool providers between 2021 and 2024, a new audit from the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office finds.

The Secretary of State’s Office found grants were misappropriated due to poor oversight at Oregon’s education and early learning departments.

Threatening to call federal immigration authorities on employees after they raised concerns about their working conditio...
07/22/2025

Threatening to call federal immigration authorities on employees after they raised concerns about their working conditions is considered illegal retaliation, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries is warning employers.

Oregon law prohibits employers from discriminating or retaliating against workers because of their national origin.

Gov. Tina Kotek will order lawmakers back to the Capitol for a special session at the end of August to address a $350 mi...
07/22/2025

Gov. Tina Kotek will order lawmakers back to the Capitol for a special session at the end of August to address a $350 million funding shortfall in the Department of Transportation’s budget that led to hundreds of state employees receiving layoff notices this month.

Gov. Tina Kotek will order lawmakers back to the Capitol for an August session to address a $350 million transportation funding shortfall.

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