The decades-long plight of a Black legislative employee wrongfully accused of financial impropriety during his time battling the influence of oil companies in Salem has lit a flame under an unusual bipartisan duo of Oregon lawmakers. Reps. Ed Diehl, R-Scio and Travis Nelson, D-Portland, two of the Capitol’s prominent conservative and progressive lawmakers, announced Wednesday […]
Republican leaders of a successful petition to pause gas tax and transportation fee hikes until a citizen vote are suing the state over a new law rescheduling that vote. Gov. Tina Kotek signed Senate Bill 1599 into law shortly after it passed the House on Monday, clearing the way for voters to have a say […]
The Oregon House of Representatives in a 31-20 vote Monday passed a bill that would move the date Oregonians can vote on a controversial 2025 transportation law from November to May. Democrats in the fall passed a law to raise $4.3 billion dollars for the Oregon Department of Transportation over the next decade mostly through […]
Oregon House Speaker Julie Fahey on Friday chided the chamber’s sole gubernatorial candidate, Republican Rep. Ed Diehl of Scio, for violating self-imposed House rules by collecting campaign donations during this year’s short legislative session. In a letter of correction sent to Diehl on Friday, the Eugene Democrat urged Diehl to return the money and refrain […]
The Oregon Legislature yet again delayed a vote on one of the most politically contentious bills of the year’s short legislative session to reschedule a referendum on transportation tax and fee increases from November to May. Lawmakers in the Oregon House on Thursday agreed to push Senate Bill 1599 to Monday for consideration, despite it […]
After hearing her Democratic counterpart cite the immigration detention of a 7-year-old and her parents seeking medical care in Portland, Rep. Lucetta Elmer couldn’t help but interject. “Tell the whole story,” the House Republican Leader from McMinnville said at a legislative press conference in late January, interrupting House Majority Leader Ben Bowman, D-Tigard. He asked […]
State Sen. Christine Drazan, running for governor for the second time, skipped voting on bills on Tuesday to meet with business owners at an Oregon City pub 20 miles outside the Senate district she represents. The Canby Republican was officially excused from the Senate as lawmakers gaveled in at 11 a.m. Tuesday but had returned […]
Oregon lawmakers opened the 2026 legislative session Monday with a clear rift between Democrats and Republicans over how best to spend their time sprinting to the finish line of the 35-day short legislative session. That work began in the newly renovated Oregon State Capitol, which has for years closed off its iconic rotunda and most […]
PORTLAND— Three of Oregon’s top Republican gubernatorial candidates on Saturday offered some of the clearest insight yet into how they’d take the reins of the state’s highest office at their first forum together ahead of the May primary. The ex-Portland Trail Blazer Chris Dudley, State Rep. Ed Diehl, R-Scio, and Marion County Commissioner Danielle Bethell […]
Three of Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s top potential Republican challengers are set to gather on Saturday for their first candidate forum together ahead of the May primary, with one notable absence. Marion County Commissioner Danielle Bethell, the ex-Portland Trail Blazer Chris Dudley and State Rep. Ed Diehl, R-Scio, will meet in the ballroom of North […]
