By MIKE McINALLY/YachatsNews If the biggest issues facing the 2025 Legislature – transportation, housing, behavioral health, education funding, wildfires – seem familiar to you, Sen. Dick Anderson and Rep. […]
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Incumbency and big lead in campaign cash gives Anderson path to Senate District 5 re-election
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews The size and shape of a district covering several coastal counties has changed since the last time voters went to the polls in 2020, but the […]
Lincoln County senator proposing 2025 legislation that would exclude tips from Oregon taxes
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle A Republican state senator who represents part of the Oregon coast that relies heavily on a tourist economy has submitted a plan to exclude […]
Anderson’s stop in Yachats focuses on jobs and childcare, taxes and tourists, logging and herbicides
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – State Sen. Dick Anderson got quizzed on infrastructure and tourists, herbicides and logging, education and elections Tuesday during a 75-minute town hall in Yachats. […]
Lincoln County’s two legislators pleased with speed, compromises — and results — of just-completed short session
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews The two legislators who represent Lincoln County in Salem are pleased with the results of the recently completed short, off-year session that concluded last week. They […]