Timber Unity supporters and other opponents rally against House Bill 2020 on June 27. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) SALEM — Two members of a quickly rising political activist community of Oregon loggers have been invited to the White House to attend a speech on “America’s environmental leadership” on Monday, July 8,[Read More…]

Gov. Kate Brown is taking another whack at reforming Oregon’s beleaguered foster care system. Brown announced Thursday, April 18, that she was creating a special board to oversee child welfare issues and ensure that reforms are enacted. The move came two days after advocates filed a class action lawsuit against[Read More…]

Rep. Mitch Greenlick, D-Portland. (Jaime Valdez/Portland Tribune) SALEM – Growing political tensions at the Legislature boiled over Thursday as House Speaker Tina Kotek stripped a powerful Portland Democrat of two committee chairmanships because of his behavior. Kotek at the same time booted a Republican legislator off a committee, justifying both[Read More…]

The proposed Treasure Valley Reload Center could go up on this site north of Nyssa. (The Enterprise/file) The prospects for new jobs and stronger market reach for Malheur County’s onion industry hit new head winds from Salem as the director of Oregon’s economic development agency found “deficiencies” in plans for[Read More…]

Gov. Kate Brown announces her proposed two-year state budget during a news conference Wednesday in the governor’s office in Salem. (Salem Reporter/Aubrey Wieber) SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown stood at her lectern in the walnut-paneled ceremonial office Wednesday morning to deliver a symbolic message as she released a budget she[Read More…]

The Oregon Court of Appeals late Friday granted a request by state officials to keep secret for now the details about proposed legislation, acting just minutes before the state was due to publicly disclose the records. An attorney pressing for disclosure said Gov. Kate Brown was trying to keep the[Read More…]

Jenessa Teachout, a junior at Gresham’s Sam Barlow High School, and Meagan Graves, senior at Portland’s Madison High School, chat with Rep. Barbara Smith Warner, D-Portland, at a legislative committee session Thursday. (Jonathan House/Portland Tribune) If given a choice for one reform at his high school, Des’smen Pooler would add a mandatory class on[Read More…]