By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau A video diaspora of lawmakers, an alphabet soup of proposals, echoing audio, dead air and a buzzer that cut off testimony at three minutes […]
Archives for 2021
The 2022 general election may be more than a year away in Oregon, but jockeying for position — and money — has started
By GARY WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Ready or not, Oregon, the 2022 election season is here. Labor Day weekend of odd-numbered years is the traditional kick-off of serious campaign activity aimed […]
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown suggests that curtailing some school activities to speed drop in COVID-19 cases
By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Schools should cancel or curtail some extracurricular activities to help Oregon maintain what appears to be the beginning of a decline from record high […]
Fatal crash on Highway 101 eight miles north of Florence
FATAL CRASH ON HWY 101-LANE COUNTY News Release from Oregon State Police Posted on FlashAlert: September 7th, 2021 12:34 PM On Friday, September 3, 2021 at approximately 12:20 PM, Oregon State […]
Cleaner but still struggling, Yachats Post Office gets spruced up — but customers urged to contact Congress to help restore staff
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com A small band of Yachats residents turned out over the Labor Day weekend to perform housekeeping duties at the Post Office, but their vacuums and cleaners […]
OSU, UO announce weekly testing for staff, students with vaccine exemptions
The Eugene Register-Guard The University of Oregon and Oregon State University announced Wednesday that they are requiring weekly COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated students and employees. The universities, along with all of […]
State has online open house Thursday for Highway 18 improvements near Spirit Mountain casino
By the Salem Statesman-Journal A busy section of the highway hundreds of thousands of people travel each year to get to the Oregon Coast could soon look much different. A […]
Oregon coronavirus report for Friday, Sept. 3: 2,379 new cases, 37 in Lincoln County and one more local death
Oregon reports 2,379 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 24 new deaths PORTLAND — There are 24 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 3,272, […]
Two partisan plans by Ds and Rs for redistricting in Oregon make consensus a long shot
By GARY WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Legislative leaders on Friday released competing plans for new political districts to be used beginning with the 2022 election. Hopes for a quick consensus to […]
Oregon State Police/Newport activity log for Aug. 31-Sept. 1
OREGON STATE POLICE DAILY MEDIA/DESK LOG SP21249213 08/31/2021 17:39 Officer #44704 KATSIKIS, KELLY Crash – Hit and Run Location 18, Mile post 1.5 1.5 EB, LINCOLN OR USA Narrative Summary Log only: I was […]