OPB Politics Now
By Oregon Public Broadcasting
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Episodes: 149
Nov 11, 2023
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"OPB Politics Now" is a weekly podcast that takes a deep dive into the hottest political topics in Oregon and the Northwest. Every Friday, OPB’s political reporters and special guests offer in-depth analysis, discussion and insight into candidates, events and issues.
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Longview picks up the pieces after mill tragedy
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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How a small Oregon town fell into financial ruin
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May 28, 2026 |
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Do Oregonians have tax fatigue or did they just hate the gas tax?
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May 22, 2026 |
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East of the Cascades, affordability and housing are on the ballot
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May 14, 2026 |
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Suburban races offer comeback stories, intrigue
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May 07, 2026 |
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A deep dive on Oregon’s GOP gubernatorial race
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Major budget cuts loom over Portland area
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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4 top Oregon Republicans square off in first gubernatorial debate
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Portland’s ICE building back in national spotlight
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Why Portland’s mayor and Multnomah County disagree on homelessness data
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Vote by mail remains in the national conversation: Is it safe?
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Going behind the scenes at the Oregon State Capitol
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Oregon lawmakers head home as 2026 legislative session ends
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Oregon education report card: Grading the 2026 session
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Salmon, dams and energy, plus an Oregon legislative potpourri
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Oregon Legislature approaches halfway mark of short session
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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OPB Politics Now’: Pots of money falling from the sky
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Lawmakers begin Salem session, plus the politics surrounding Portland’s ICE building
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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ICE, transportation and a looming budget hole: Oregon lawmakers return to Salem
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Marking the first year of the Trump administration
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Portland finds a ‘reluctant’ hero, Kotek chooses a business whisperer
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Oregon enters an election year with big political questions
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Oregon’s big political stories of the 2025, looking ahead to 2026
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Deschutes County political maps spark debate, plus groundwater contamination in Eastern Oregon
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Homelessness in Portland and taxes in Oregon take center stage
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Oregon education report card: Budget woes, enrollment issues and Trump effect
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Newport fights potential ICE facility, plus Trump’s National Guard legal defeat
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Portland's camping ban, suburban ICE raids and election recap
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Food assistance and health insurance stuck in government shutdown limbo
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Talking Tina Kotek: The National Guard, reelection and her first term
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Portland’s ICE protest brings frogs, naked cyclists and right wing streamers
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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OPB Politics Now: President Trump's push for the military in U.S. cities ramps up in courts, streets
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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President Trump targets Portland
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Inside one of Portland’s new homeless shelters
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Who needs shots? Vaccines drive a wedge between Oregon and the feds
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Why 2 Oregon lawmakers bucked their political parties
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Oregon's road funding special legislative session sputters at its midway point
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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The politics of Gov. Kotek’s special session on transportation funding
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Oregon's timber counties brace for losses after Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Oregon Democrats say federal cuts hurt the vulnerable, Republicans blame Democrats
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Portland wrestles with how to respond to Trump administration
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Explaining Oregon’s farm stand rules kerfuffle
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Federal immigration raids are shaking the Northwest
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Senator Jeff Merkley is running for reelection, plus special session scuttlebutt
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Oregon Legislature wraps up a busy session punctuated by a transportation package failure
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Salem drama reaches fever pitch as sine die looms
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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What Oregon lawmakers have, have not done on education issues this session
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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What the Big Beautiful Bill would mean for Oregon’s healthcare system
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Oregon legislative session is almost over - what have they done?
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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The rise, fall and return of cap and trade in Oregon
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May 29, 2025 |
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An inside look at how OPB covers the Oregon Capitol
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May 22, 2025 |
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Oregon’s revenue forecast shows economic slowdown
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May 15, 2025 |
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Unpacking Portland Mayor Keith Wilson’s first budget
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May 08, 2025 |
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The rise of placeholder bills in Oregon’s Legislature
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May 01, 2025 |
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Dan Handelman’s life, work and the vacuum his death leaves in advocacy world
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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How Oregon businesses are reacting to Trump’s tariffs
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Oregon’s legislative session hits the midway point
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Is the Pacific Northwest entering an era of dam removal?
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Melissa Fireside’s sudden rise and downfall in Clackamas County
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek stops by OPB
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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A deep dive on Oregon’s education system
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Why Portland and Multnomah County’s budgets are so bleak but Oregon’s is stable?
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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‘What’s the plan?’ Oregonians push back at politicians town halls across the state
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Recapping Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s confirmation hearing
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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A legislative check-in one month into the Salem session
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Tina Kotek’s climate legacy – so far
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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How Trump’s federal funding freeze landed in Oregon
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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The second Trump administration and the Pacific Northwest
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Previewing Oregon’s 2025 legislative session
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Portland’s new City Council begins 2025 with drama, intrigue
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Who is Keith Wilson?
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Exit Interview: Earl Blumenauer
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Exit Interview: Ted Wheeler
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Paying for wildfires
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Christine Drazan’s return, plus Portland city councilors jostle for power
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Recapping the election results with Think Out Loud
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Portland’s new political era has arrived
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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A big night for Republicans, but not in Oregon
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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How Portland’s campaigns have changed, plus the ballot box fires
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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These Oregon legislative races could determine the balance of power in Salem
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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A deep dive on Deschutes County and Bend politics
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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OPB Politics Now’: Previewing your 2024 ballot
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Analyzing Oregon’s attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer races
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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A deep dive into Oregon’s 5th Congressional District
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Oregon’s vaunted vote by mail system has a rare error
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Why Greg Walden is so important to Republican campaigns
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Why Oregon’s Republican Party is so focused on the tiny Libertarian Party
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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The promise and peril of drug recriminalization in Oregon
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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A sheriff, a mayor and the ongoing effort to enforce homeless camping bans
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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How the new Portland City Council will work
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Governor Tina Kotek interview
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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The Washington primary
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Oregon and the changing presidential race
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Peter Courtney played influential role in making Oregon what it is today
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Transportation funding woes hit Oregon and Portland’s central city
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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U.S. Supreme Court rules in Grants Pass case that people experiencing homelessness can be punished for sleeping in public
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Oregon’s coastal mountain biking trail is a hopeful nod to the future
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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New leaders of Oregon’s Planned Parenthood push to dissolve the political arm of their organization
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Oregon’s long history of failing foster kids, plus a legislative leadership shakeup
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Is progressivism on life support in Portland?
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May 31, 2024 |
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Some major takeaways from the 2024 May primary election
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May 23, 2024 |
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Big money flows into 2 Oregon Congressional races
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May 17, 2024 |
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A progressive prosecutor, a proxy fight and the bitter battle to be Multnomah County's DA
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May 10, 2024 |
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What Tina Kotek did – and didn’t – say about the first spouse
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May 03, 2024 |
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Should politics be a family affair, plus harm reduction in Eastern Oregon
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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3 top candidates for Oregon's 3rd Congressional District
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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The tale of two homeless communities: Right 2 Dream Too and Clinton Triangle
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Portland tries again to ban certain activities tied to homeless camps
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s wife wants a larger role, does that matter?
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Environmental takeaways from Oregon’s legislative session
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Who is Rene Gonzalez, plus will the latest homelessness plan actually work?
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Recapping the 2024 Oregon Legislative session
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Will cities take advantage of Kotek’s housing bill?
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Threat of ballot measures spurs action in Salem
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Campaign finance reform emerges as unlikely presence in Salem
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Why some Portland police struggle with use of force and what experts say
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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A political lightning round ahead of the Legislative session
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Is Oregon’s drug decriminalization experiment nearing its end?
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Oregon’s land use laws and the Kotek’s housing push
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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What to make of Tina Kotek’s first year as Oregon’s governor
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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The political stories to watch in 2024
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Why Oregon’s kicker tax rebate just keeps growing
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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The political and business reaction to Kotek’s downtown Portland task force
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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OPB Politics Now: Oregon keeps struggling with foster care
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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The political fight over K-12 education funding is just getting started
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Portland's police oversight controversy continues
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Tribes, a proposed destination resort and treaty rights collide
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The politics of the PPS strike
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Oregon's battle over pumping gas refuels, plus Portland City Council transition drama
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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What happens when an Oregon town's government implodes
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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How homelessness became a statewide crisis in Oregon
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Why Democrats are now willing to tackle Measure 110 reforms
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Fentanyl, overdoses and Measure 110 in the spotlight
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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A deep dive into the unusual and personal Paul Holvey recall
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Ted Talk: What can Wheeler accomplish as a lame duck?
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler talks about his future
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Portland public drug use ban awaits state action, Bybee Lakes gets more public cash
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Oregon’s ‘kicker’ hits a new record
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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The task force to save Portland met for the first time, but will it work?
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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The sex work vetoes and the Portland leader who lived and worked from Vegas
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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The costly Capitol renovation, plus Kotek’s task force to save Portland
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Intel growing, gas pumping, Congresswoman Hoyle testifying
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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The union battle in Lane County
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Why the effort to unwind Portland’s government overhaul unraveled
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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The Newport mayor’s Facebook posts, plus Portland City Hall happenings
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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OPB Politics Now: Portland's continuing struggle over homelessness policy
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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OPB Politics Now: Oregon legislators wrap it up
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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A topsy-turvy end to the 2023 legislative session
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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The political fallout from the longest walkout in Oregon history
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Jun 16, 2023 |