Disease, dysfunction, and deadlines are challenging the Oregon Legislature as it starts the second half of the 2021 session.

Disease, dysfunction, and deadlines are challenging the Oregon Legislature as it starts the second half of the 2021 session.

Disease, dysfunction, and deadlines are challenging the Oregon Legislature as it starts the second half of the 2021 session.

(The Center Square) – A Friday ruling from the Oregon Supreme Court handed a win to state lawmakers who want to wait on redrawing Oregon's political map.

A decision by the Oregon Supreme Court will enable lawmakers, not Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, to get first crack at redrawing legislative district boundaries despite a pandemic-caused delay in federal census data.

A decision by the Oregon Supreme Court will enable lawmakers, not Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, to get first crack at redrawing legislative district boundaries despite a pandemic-caused delay in federal census data.

SALEM — Oregon legislators could force the state’s leading health agency to be more transparent by neutering a law that allows officials to conceal health information, including about the COVID-19 pandemic, that the public otherwise has a right to know.

(The Center Square) – Oregon is moving up its priority vaccinations for virtually everyone but the general public while the rest of the nation surges ahead with its vaccine rollouts.