Latest from Lucille McNamara
Oregon Wildland Urban Interface Property Owners Will Have 60 Days to Lodge Appeals
Oregonians who own property in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) zones will soon receive notifications about precautionary measures from the Department of Forestry…
Tension Mounts as Oregon Waits for News of its Selection to House a Semiconductor Research Hub
If Oregon is not selected as the last of three semiconductor research hubs, the state will lose hundreds of millions of federal investment dollars and suffer a major…
Oregon Man Who Tried to Smuggle Drugs into a Detention Center Jailed for 10 Years
A 30-year-old Portland man, Levi Denison, was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on Tuesday on a string of charges including attempted drug smuggling into the Multnomah…
Trump’s Planned Increased Tariffs is Impacting Two Major Oregon Sportswear Companies
Donald Trump’s plan to increase tariffs by more than 60% on goods imported from China is already impacting two of Oregon’s major sportswear corporations, Nike and…
Oregon’s Attempt to Introduce Ranked-Choice Voting With Measure 117 Takes a Dive at the Polls
Ranked-choice voting dived the polls despite the strong support of Tribal leaders who believed Measure 117 to be fairer and more equitable.
Fierce Opposition to Oregon Measure 118 at the Polls Defeats Attempts to Establish a Basic Income Program
Oregonians have fiercely opposed Measure 118 which would have taxed corporate sales over $25 million by a minimum of 3% and funneled the revenue to residents who live in…
Elderly Oregon Cyclist Billed for Using an Ambulance that Struck and Injured Him
Columbia River Fire and Rescue billed an elderly cyclist $1,862 for transporting him to hospital after one of its ambulances had struck him, crushing his bicycle under…
Ashland to Issue Revenue Bonds to Finance The Construction of The Water Treatment Plant
Three controversial measures – one addressing Oregon’s drug laws and two seeking to increase taxation on property values - came under the spotlight on ballots for…
