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State economists now expect the pandemic won't cut meaningfully into revenues for the current budget. They warn that future budgets will still be painful. -
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Gov. Kate Brown described the scene after visiting a burn in Southern Oregon and expressed hope for more progress moving forward.
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Earlier in the day, the president said he expects this year's election results to go to the Supreme Court, defending his push to swiftly replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Large-scale wildfires in the Northern part of the coastal range have been increasing at about 10% per decade since 1984 due to climate trends that make it easy for wildfires to spark, researchers found.
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The measure includes a last-minute agreement with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Republicans over aid for farmers. The Senate needs to vote on the resolution and send it to President Trump.
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Tuesday Sept. 22 is National Voter Registration Day, a nonpartisan effort that encourages Americans on the fourth Tuesday of September to get ready for the upcoming election.
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Senate President Peter Courtney says he worries Gov. Kate Brown is setting a bad precedent, but that a fight might not be worth it.
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The Republican senator from Utah announced he would "follow the Constitution and precedent" in considering the president's nominee.
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The 'tent city' popped up in Hawthorne Park after the Almeda Fire burned a large swath of the Bear Creek Greenway, driving out homeless campers.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday the state’s outdated computer system for processing unemployment insurance claims needs to be “strewn to the wastebin,” after being inundated with applications during the pandemic.
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The Trump Administration announced Monday that it has designated Portland as an “anarchist jurisdiction,” threatening to cut potentially millions of dollars in federal funding that flow into the city.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that voters elected a GOP Senate in 2016 and strengthened it in 2018 because they wanted action on the president's federal judicial nominations.
