21+ hour, 14+ min ago   (532+ words) Southern Oregon’s long-running hospital staffing battle has reached the state Capitol, where nurses and other medical professionals are pressing legislators to intervene as penalties against Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center have climbed to $1,564,250 under Oregon’s hospital staffing law. Southern Oregon…...

20+ hour, 58+ min ago   (523+ words) Oregon’s chief government ethics administrator emerged Friday from an outside examination of her own conduct with no violation established, closing an extraordinary case that required the state’s ethics watchdog to look beyond its own offices for someone to investigate the…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (442+ words) Oregon legislators are beginning to revisit laws they previously sent through the Capitol, tracing what happened after those measures took effect and examining whether state agencies, funding and public programs produced the results envisioned when the legislation was approved. Oregon…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (981+ words) Josephine County’s jail and juvenile detention levy moved further into the November election Tuesday when all three county commissioners agreed to personally endorse the measure in the voters’ pamphlet, placing Commissioners Ron Smith, Colene Martin and Gary Richardson together in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (456+ words) The investigation substantiated misconduct involving Chavez-DeRemer across six areas of her tenure, placing conduct inside the secretary’s office, during government travel and at her private residence within the same federal inquiry. Conditions inside the Labor Department became one of the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (990+ words) “Lower Taxes” is an extraordinarily powerful political promise. It requires two words on a campaign sign, appeals immediately to households struggling with rising expenses and suggests something every taxpayer understands: elect this candidate and government will take less of your…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (626+ words) On Wednesday morning, September 2nd, Circuit Court Judge Laurie Norman rejected Baertschiger’s petition to amend the ballot title language, for many of the same reasons as we stated in this column last week. It appeared to be a quick and easy…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (507+ words) The Oregon Department of Justice has closed its review of six complaints alleging misconduct by federal law-enforcement officers in Portland and Eugene, determining that none will proceed to a full criminal investigation after months of examination by state authorities. An…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (1548+ words) On the specific legislative votes Yunker cited, that record largely backs him up. The bills exist. The votes are there. When Yunker says he voted yes, available legislative records show that he did. When he identifies legislation he co-sponsored, the records…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (254+ words) The law does not eliminate recycling expenses or guarantee lower garbage bills. Instead, it changes where a portion of the money originates. Packaging now carries potential financial obligations for covered producers after products have entered Oregon commerce, connecting the cost…...