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The standard statewide hourly wage will rise to $15.05 per hour, while Portland’s minimum wage will rise to $16.30 per hour Oregonians earning the minimum wage will soon receive 35 cents more per hour, the smallest annual increase in the past ten years. The changes that go into effect Tuesday aren’t the same across […]
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Trump plan would bar millions of Americans from voting by mail, states tell Supreme Court
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (875+ words) Published 1:40 pm Thursday, September 10, 2026 The Democratic-led states and voting rights groups suing to block enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict mail-in voting warned in briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday the policy would have disastrous…...
2025 GOP tax law will cost Oregon nearly $1.3B for Medicaid over next four years, officials say
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (412+ words) Published 10:01 am Thursday, September 10, 2026 SALEM — Over the next four years, Oregon will need to come up with nearly $1.3 billion to keep its current Medicaid system functioning due to cuts and restrictions from the GOP’s 2025 federal tax and spending law, state…...
Study finds Oregon had the second highest rate of state lawmakers leaving office early
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (1143+ words) Published 8:59 am Monday, September 7, 2026 Oregon between 2020 and 2025 had the second highest rate of state lawmakers leaving office before their term ended, according to a new study. A collaborative study between the Center for Tech and Civic Life and the Institute…...
Commentary: The path to shared prosperity begins with Oregon workers
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (658+ words) Published 9:20 am Monday, September 7, 2026 “I love these patients, but it’s really hard to go home and not be able to provide for your family,” said Dwanna Tarpio, a worker at Serenity Hospice in Eugene. Fed up with wages that didn’t…...
Editorial: What should be Oregon's transportation priorities?
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (304+ words) Published 10:00 am Monday, September 7, 2026 You have a couple days left to let your voice be heard on Oregon’s transportation priorities. A new survey will feed into the decisions of Gov. Tina Kotek’s Rebuilding Our Transportation Vision Workgroup. Kotek convened the…...
Livable future explored in Central Oregon LandWatch's October speaker series
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (340+ words) Published 6:00 am Monday, September 7, 2026 You don’t have to be an enrolled student to get some environmental education at Oregon State University-Cascades this fall. The Livable Future Forum, composed of three events exploring ways to create an ecologically just and vibrant…...
Oregon lawmaker to propose financial support for small cities left in financial limbo
1+ week, 4+ day ago (467+ words) Published 9:29 am Wednesday, September 2, 2026 After a city in his district temporarily shut down several of its parks because it couldn’t pay for their maintenance, a Democratic state lawmaker is proposing the Legislature create a fund that would provide small Oregon…...
BLM to remove hundreds of wild horses from southeast Oregon due to drought, starvation
1+ week, 4+ day ago (206+ words) Published 3:53 pm Wednesday, September 2, 2026 The Bureau of Land Management will begin an emergency gather Thursday of wild horses in southeast Oregon due to concerns that their health is threatened by severe shortages of food and water. About 1,200 wild horses currently…...
Editorial: Don't undermine Oregon's open meetings
1+ week, 5+ day ago (147+ words) Published 10:00 am Tuesday, September 1, 2026 The League of Oregon Cities wants to change Oregon Public Meetings Law, it announced in its new list of legislative priorities for 2027-2028. Yikes, was our first thought. What the League is apparently after in the new…...
Immigration arrests in Oregon under Trump 2.0 by the numbers
1+ week, 6+ day ago (329+ words) Published 6:32 am Monday, August 31, 2026 Federal immigration agents have arrested more than 700 people in Oregon this year as of early August, according to new data. Those arrests make up about a quarter of the more than 2,500 arrests federal agents have conducted…...