by Ty Davison | Mar 26, 2024 | News & Commentary
Kotek’s wife gets aide, office space as governor considers creating ‘Office of the First Spouse’ • Oregon Capital Chronicle: Gov. Tina Kotek is hiring a temporary aide to assist her wife, Aimee Kotek Wilson, as the governor considers expanding Kotek...
by Ty Davison | Mar 17, 2024 | News & Commentary
Debate over Middle East conflict flares as students, some educators stage walkout in Portland – oregonlive.com: Hundreds of Portland high school students and some of their teachers streamed out of schools Friday afternoon to protest ongoing bloodshed in Gaza,...
by Ty Davison | Mar 7, 2024 | News & Commentary
Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime, jury rules – oregonlive.com: An off-duty bartender who ordered a patron not to use the women’s bathroom and shoved the woman when she tried to explain her gender identity...
by Ty Davison | Mar 2, 2024 | News & Commentary
The legislature is mildly re-criminalizing some drug use to the dismay of some progressive groups who seem inured to the increasing tragedy of fentanyl on the streets. Oregon’s saw 280 opioid overdose deaths in 2019, 956 in 2022, and we’re at 628 so far...
by Ty Davison | Mar 1, 2024 | News & Commentary
Oregon Senate passes anti-book-ban bill over Republican objections – Oregon Capital Chronicle: Republicans tried to introduce their own amendment to replace the bill with a new measure creating a task force that would recommend legislation to “better establish...