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Roads funding, budget deficit, protecting Oregon’s immigrants top 2026 legislative priorities

  • Alex Baumhardt

Ninety lawmakers from across Oregon will gather today at the State Capitol in Salem to tackle a host of urgent issues, including balancing the state’s budget amid a looming deficit, keeping the state’s transportation department solvent, protecting Oregonians and immigrants from aggressive federal enforcement tactics and affordability. The lawmakers — 30 senators and 60 representatives […]

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Oregon’s U.S. Rep. Bynum pitches patchwork ‘K-30’ plan to tackle generational affordability issues

  • Alex Baumhardt

WEST LINN, Ore.— At a library in suburban West Linn, nursing students, millennial parents and recent high school graduates told their congresswoman they are struggling to reach a slate of traditional educational, professional and personal milestones due to a multi-generational affordability crisis in higher education, housing, health and child care. “That is not the failure […]

Opinion

Hood River housing options are out of reach

  • JOEL MADSEN

The cost of renting or buying a home is increasingly out of reach for all of us. Our housing affordability challenge puts us at risk of losing what has made the Gorge, and our diverse hometowns, a wonderful place to live, work and play.