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Friday, June 20, 2025: Oregon farm group says rising immigration enforcement is disruptive to agriculture
Latest News & Opinion Stories
Oregon News
Oregon farm group says rising immigration enforcement is disruptive to agriculture
Oregon appeals federal contempt ruling over state hospital delays
The state’s largest county should lower key tax on high earners, governor says
Oregon’s jobless rate hits another post-pandemic high: ‘real evidence of weakness in the state’
Oregon ski areas could be in major trouble due to lawsuit threat
Oregon Pioneer statue atop the State Capitol needs a new coat of gold
Oregon Political News
‘OPB Politics Now’: What Oregon lawmakers have, have not done on education issues this session
Oregon House resolution honors Black drag performers
Kotek’s Education Accountability Bill Moves Through Both Chambers
Democratic Oregon House members celebrate Black drag performers, as nearly all Republicans boycott
Bill to strengthen Oregon’s electric grid, increase transmission capacity passes Legislature
Why Oregon lawmaker is ‘frustrated to the highest level’
Oregon House advances middle housing bill: What to know
Oregon lawmakers invest in expanded water recycling for irrigation
Oregon Wildfire News
Upper Applegate Fire prompts evacuations, grows over 300 acres
Level 3 ‘go now’ evacuation order issued for fire near Mapleton
Firefighters slow advance of Upper Applegate blaze
UPDATE: Upper Applegate Fire 70% lined, estimated at 470 acres; evacuation zones see downgrades, cancellations
Metropolitan Portland News
Portlanders are dissatisfied with the city’s affordability, survey finds
Portland councilors adopt first budget under new form of government
Parks Director Adena Long Is On Administrative Leave
Multnomah County Jail Wrongful Death Settlement Comes with Crucial Reforms
‘Largely lawful’ or ‘violently’ rioting? Portland police and feds split on nightly ICE protest
Central/Eastern Oregon
Juneteenth to carry on despite other groups canceling large cultural events in Bend
Health advisory issued for Lake Billy Chinook in central Oregon
Willamette Valley/Salem News
Minnesota murders rattle Corvallis, Benton leaders
Southern Oregon
Mercy moves forward with expansion plan
GP City Council approves plan to offer homeless site grant of up to $1.2 million
Recently approved $660M Jackson County budget pours money into capital improvement projects
Commissioners OK increase to budget for Josephine County sheriff
Longtime resident Sherrell picked to fill vacant Ashland City Council seat
Klamath Falls City Council adopts budget for next biennium
Business/Economic News
Fed holds interest rates steady, signals rate cuts of 0.5% later this year
Tech giant signals AI will force reductions in corporate ranks
Fannie, Freddie overseer wages online war against Fed chief
Health News
GOP senators warn mega-bill’s new Medicaid cuts will hurt rural hospitals
Texas district judge overturns Biden rule on expanded abortion privacy protections
Education News
US restarting foreign student visas, demands social media access
Energy & Environment
Plastic bag bans are helping clean up US coastlines: Study
Misleading information on climate science delaying action: Report
International News
Trump dials back war talk, sees more time for diplomacy
Trump says he’ll decide whether US will directly attack Iran within 2 weeks
Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, hit by an Israeli airstrike, was part of Tehran’s nuclear deal
Israeli scientists reel after Iranian missile strikes premier research institute
Russia’s economy minister says the country is on ‘the brink of recession’
Spain asks for break on NATO contribution: Report
European foreign ministers will meet with Iranian officials in Switzerland on Friday
Washington has had it with Andriy Yermak
European hot spots dig in against tourism
The U.S. could join Israel’s war with Iran to deploy this 30,000-pound bomb
National News
Seven Job Corps students, including one in Oregon, sue Labor Department over closures
Appeals panel hints it may allow Trump to control California National Guard deployment
Judge rejects ‘Duffy Directive’ tying DOT grants to immigration cooperation
National Campaign News
Party like it’s 2018: Dems look to 1st Trump midterm for 2025 races and 2026 momentum
62 percent of Democrats agree party leadership should be replaced: Survey
‘Weak,’ ‘whiny’ and ‘invisible’: Critics of DNC Chair Ken Martin savage his tenure
National Political News
Trump’s VA cut a program that’s saving vets’ homes. Even Republicans have questions
Trump administration cuts specialized suicide prevention service for LGBTQ+ youth
Trump is gutting an agency that gave $300 million to Wisconsin mental health initiatives
Green energy credits phaseout divides Senate Republicans
Proposed sale of millions of acres of public land under GOP budget bill prompts backlash
GOP senators are not fans of Trump’s new TikTok delay
Scoop: MAGA’s new attack on the Fed
Senate holds firm on aggressive timeline for Trump budget bill
Trump presses aides on whether bunker-buster plan to bomb Iran will work
Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson’s blowup exposes MAGA’s divide on war with Iran
Handcuffed Democrats become symbol of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
Opinion
As our kids battle a rise in suicide and self-harm, we’re gutting the funding to fight it
Chinese leaders have a long history of strategic deception
Reconciliation and rescissions roil Congress
MAGA’s Misguided Isolationists
The Social Security Iceberg Gets Closer