Oregon
- Oregon is first state to join free filing option for federal taxeswww.opb.org Oregon is first state to join free filing option for federal taxes
The state and federal free tax-filing software programs will be linked to make tax filing less of a painful experience
Get fucked, intuit!
- Only Oregon Republican lawmaker who supports abortion rights is now an Independentwww.opb.org Only Oregon Republican lawmaker who supports abortion rights is now an Independent
Though his core beliefs haven’t changed, Conrad said the primary made clear his version of moderate Republican politics doesn’t represent the majority of Republican voters in his rural Lane County district. Just less than 1,400 of the more than 8,000 Republican voters who cast ballots in the 12th Ho...
The collapse of the state Republican Party continues.
- Five Oregon Newspapers to Cease Printing Next Month
EO Media Group is laying off 28 people amid financial troubles.
The La Grande Observer, Blue Mountain Eagle, Hermiston Herald, Wallowa County Chieftain and Baker City Herald will all cease to publish print editions on July 1, according to an announcement from the chain’s publisher, Joe Beach. Subscribers will get copies of the East Oregonian in their mailboxes instead
- Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho - sh.itjust.workssh.itjust.works Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho - sh.itjust.works
> On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho m...
- Oregon Primary Election Results - May 21st, 2024
Legend: Candidate Name (party, %of vote)
Vote tallies current as of 12:30am PST, May 22nd 2024 (Due to lower voter turnout in primaries, most ballots are already counted by this time and these totals are unlikely to change significantly by the election certification date.)
Please see title link to the official Secretary of State page for complete and accurate election results.
Statewide Positions Secretary of State: Tobias Read (D, 71%) will run against disgraced state senator (who is barred from running for senate) Dennis Linthicum (R, 65%)
State Treasurer: Elizabeth Steiner (D, 78%) will run against another disgraced state senator who is barred from running, Brian Boquist (R, uncontested)
Attorney General: Dan Rayfield (D, 76%) will run against Will Lathrop (R, 64%)
Other Notable Contested Races: US Representative, 3rd Dist: Current State Rep Maxine Dexter (D, 50.7%) beats out former Multnomah county commissioner Susheela Jayapal (D, 28.5%)
State Representative, 12th Dist: Darin Harbick (R, 82%) beats out current representative Charlie Conrad (R, 18%) for the republican nomination. No other candidates filed for any other party, so Harbick is the de-facto winner of the position. Conrad faced this primary challenge by Harbick due to his Yes vote on HB2002 that created legal protections for abortion rights and transgender care. Conrad was publicly censured and disowned by the state Republican Party due to his vote not toeing the party line. Read more here.
Personally Irksome: State Senate District 28: Diane Linthicum (R, 59%), the wife and co-conspirator of disgraced senator Dennis Linthicum, beats out current Klamath County Commissioner Dave Henslee (R, 41%) for the republican nomination. No other candidates filed for any other party, so Linthicum is the de-facto winner of the position. Mrs. Linthicum has no real world qualifications to be Senator beyond being the husband of the current disgraced Senator, and has all but openly said she is only running to be the mouth of her husband as to bypass the election restrictions.
- Transgender high school runner in Oregon booed after winning girls’ state titlenypost.com Transgender high school runner in Oregon booed after winning girls’ state title
Aayden Gallagher, of McDaniel High School, was booed while being crowned as the Oregon Girls’ 6A 200-meter state champion.
- My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!lemmy.world My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom! - Lemmy.World
In the Oregon Voting Pamphlet. This is not an endorsement, this is a Simpsons joke.
Crosspost. I'm the Oregons Voter Pamphlet.
Not an endorsement.
- Gov. Tina Kotek abandons nominations to Oregon forestry board after pushbackwww.opb.org Gov. Tina Kotek abandons nominations to Oregon forestry board after pushback
Nominations to the board that sets state timber policy are often fought over by logging and environmental interests.
- Oregon Supreme Court sides with woman alleging Kotek caused her wrongful imprisonmentwww.koin.com Oregon Supreme Court sides with woman alleging Kotek caused her wrongful imprisonment
Justices ruled Kotek couldn’t revoke the commutation after Terri Lee Brown completed her sentence.
- TurboTax promises refunds to Oregon filers whose returns it bungled - oregonlive.comwww.oregonlive.com Oregon tax filers will get their money back after TurboTax messed up their returns
TurboTax outlined a 28-step process for customers to amend their tax filings.
- Oregon nonprofit offers fentanyl tools for parentswww.koin.com Oregon nonprofit offers fentanyl tools for parents
The non-profit started this statewide campaign Tuesday that does more than just warn about the dangers of the deadly drug.
- Microchip will furlough Oregon factory workers again as sales plunge 40% - oregonlive.comwww.oregonlive.com Microchip will furlough Oregon factory workers again as sales plunge 40%
The company won $162 million in federal funding last January to expand its factories.
- Man allegedly pours bleach into Oregon hatchery tank and kills 18,000 salmonwww.theguardian.com Man allegedly pours bleach into Oregon hatchery tank and kills 18,000 salmon
Joshua Alexander Heckathorn, 20, arrested and booked into jail for second-degree burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief
- 30 taco vendors set for Northwest Taco Fest at Riverfront Park in Salem: What to know | Statesman Journalwww.statesmanjournal.com 30 taco vendors set for Northwest Taco Fest at Riverfront Park in Salem: What to know
The family-friendly Northwest Taco Fest will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Riverfront Park on Saturday.
- UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Createdprospect.org UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created
The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.
> Last Thursday, the medical colossus UnitedHealthcare applied for an emergency exemption that would fast-track its takeover of a medical practice in Corvallis, Oregon, in a letter warning regulators that the practice might close its doors if the merger were not approved right away.
- A story about Boomers in Tillamook, OR on reddit
Thought the folks on lemmy would like this.
Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/comments/1by5wkx/boomer_lady_at_the_water_company_asked_if_i_sold/
Ok… picture it… Tillamook, Oregon. Yes, THAT Tillamook. Tiny town with more cows than people and most people who live there are old and crotchety. When you call the water company in the rural areas around town, a lady just answers, “Hello,” in a cranky voice that sounds like she was doing something way more important when you called her. She hand writes your bill on paper note cards and they don’t accept anything but checks as payment.
Anyway, a couple weeks ago I call and tell her that I need to disconnect the water or put it in the new person’s name.
Her: “It’ll be easier to just put it in the new person’s name. Do you know it?”
Me: [name that sounds like maaaaaaybe it could Asian, but not really]
Her: [name]? Are they Chinese?
Me: I don’t know, but they’re moving over from Hawaii. So I kinda doubt it.
Her: Well, good. Cause you know all them Chinese around here are all a bunch of drug dealers.
Me: Uhhhhhh.
Her: Alright, I got it down. You’ll get one more bill. [click]
I sat there for a minute with my phone in my had, wondering what the fuck I had just heard. I always felt like everyone in that town had a robe and hood in their closet, but they usually kept it pretty low key. In any event, I sure hope that she gets to see the new people and rest assured that they have pretty, white faces.
Fucking boomers. Especially rural, white boomers.
- Oof. Am I crazy or is this way beyond house inflation?
The idea that 40 years and this house cost than 10x more?
I know there's a lot of other factors. I'm just... Sigh.
- On a list of where Truckers should not stop -- Of course Troutdale is on the list
From https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1bmqjkw/truck_do_not_stop_list_for_usa_highlighting_where/
- Small Oregon town fires police chief, fueling ongoing feud and attempt to recall city officials - oregonlive.comwww.oregonlive.com Small Oregon town fires police chief, fueling ongoing feud and attempt to recall city officials
The Gervais City Council voted Feb. 20 to fire Mark Chase, the second time in less than eight years that an Oregon city had fired him as police chief.
The independent investigator, southern Oregon attorney David Groff, also reported that Chase had favored some officers over others, made inappropriate sexual comments during a pat down and a training exercise, accused an officer of going easy on migrant workers because she was, in his words, “Hispanic too,” and allegedly told an officer that if he ever shoots a suspect to “put five more in him so he’s gone.”
- Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislationfossforce.com Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones - FOSS Force
Oregon's "right to repair" bill that's waiting for the governors signature, has teeth not found in similar legislation from other states.
- 2 Oregon state senators (Linthicum, Boquist) barred from seeking reelection after walkout will seek statewide officewww.opb.org 2 Oregon state senators barred from seeking reelection after walkout will seek statewide office
Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, is one of eight state senators prohibited from running again for state Senate, after participating in extended walkouts last year.
- Privately owned, for-profit Hillsboro Hops baseball team allocated $15.2 million by state, Bend's non-profit High Desert Museum awarded $0 as it and other arts orgs struggle to stay afloat.www.oregonlive.com Legislature wraps up work after session focused on housing creation, drug policy, campaign finance limits
On Thursday, key budget bills to deliver substantial increases in some programs and a host of lawmakers’ pet community projects gained approval in both the House and Senate.
- Here’s how much Portland Public School employees made last yearwww.oregonlive.com Here’s how much Portland Public School employees made last year
Some principals, teachers made far more than their counterparts.
Pay wall
- Driver crashed into Portland homeless camp on purpose, killed man, court filing allegeswww.oregonlive.com Driver crashed into Portland homeless camp on purpose, killed man, court filing alleges
The responding police officer saw several tents, wood pallets and debris that appeared to have been run over.
Pay wall
- Oregon bill to end daylight saving time fails to clear state Senatewww.opb.org Oregon bill to end daylight saving time fails to clear state Senate
A deadlocked vote in the chamber means Oregon will not be changing its time standard without its neighbors following suit.
- Flooded with cases, Portland Police Bureau rarely solves hit and runs, data showswww.kptv.com Flooded with cases, Portland Police Bureau rarely solves hit and runs, data shows
Only a fraction of hit and run crashes in Portland actually get solved.
- $7K in trees destroyed outside Hatfield Federal Court in Portlandwww.koin.com $7K in trees destroyed outside Hatfield Federal Court in Portland
Eight trees surrounding the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland will “not recover” after a man destroyed their branches, according to court documents.
- The arrests and seizure of narcotics were made as an ongoing, multi-agency drug trafficking investigation.www.koin.com Feds in Oregon seize 370 gallons of liquid heroin, arrest 4 for drug trafficking
Federal authorities seized 370 gallons of liquid heroin and arrested four on drug trafficking charges after the suspects were apprehended at a hotel in Tigard last month.
- Oregon Supreme Court Measure 113 ruling prevents senators from re-electionkobi5.com Oregon Supreme Court Measure 113 ruling prevents senators from re-election
SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday to uphold voter-approved Ballot Measure 113. This ruling also upholds Secretary of State Lavonne Griffin-Valde’s previous ruling that nine Republican and one Independent state senators who participated in the legislative walkout last ...
Chickens coming home to roost
- In interview, Oregon lawmaker suggests non-Christians are unfit for elected officewww.opb.org In interview, Oregon lawmaker suggests non-Christians are unfit for elected office
The comments from state Rep. E. Werner Reschke, R-Malin, are raising eyebrows as the legislature prepares to convene.
Reschke is such a huge piece of shit.... oh and he was elected fraudulently in the first place. Doesn't deserve the title of Representative.
- Dutch Bros will move some corporate jobs from Oregon to Arizonawww.oregonlive.com Dutch Bros will move some corporate jobs from Oregon to Arizona
The drive-thru chain's headquarters will remain in Grants Pass but new CEO Christine Barone will live near the Arizona office.
They were dead as a company the second they went public. It always always happens this way...
Frankly dutch drinks have been heavily mid for a while anyway.
- 3 dead, toddler injured in Northeast Portland after power lines fall on car after they got outwww.kgw.com 3 dead, toddler injured in Northeast Portland after power lines fall on car
Two adults and a teen died when they exited their vehicle and became charged with electricity, Portland Fire said. A 2-year-old was taken to the hospital.
- I-84 closed in Columbia River Gorge ahead of ice storm; more closures expected as Oregonians urged to stay homewww.oregonlive.com I-84 closed in Columbia River Gorge ahead of ice storm; MAX shuts down again
A second round of freezing rain hit northwest Oregon Tuesday afternoon.
- All TriMet MAX lines, buses disrupted by downed trees, high winds, freezing tempswww.oregonlive.com All TriMet MAX lines, buses disrupted by downed trees, high winds, freezing temps
All light-rail lines are experiencing delays. Downed trees and power lines also have caused bus detours. Riders should dress warmly and check trimet.org/alerts before heading out, the transit agency said.
- ODOT to Oregonians as winter storm develops: ‘Stay home’www.oregonlive.com ODOT to Oregonians as winter storm develops: ‘Stay home’
The windchill “will be far below 0” on Mount Hood, while Portland expects a wintry mix that could include ice.
- Oregon Man Sentenced to Prison for Role in January 6 Capitol Breachmedfordalert.com Oregon Man Sentenced to Prison for Role in January 6 Capitol Breach
Washington, DC- Hillsboro resident Reed Knox Christensen, 65, has been sentenced to 46 months in prison, following his conviction on eight charges related to his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, “C…
- As many as 10 patients dead from nurse injecting tap water instead of Fentanyl at Oregon hospitalkobi5.com ONLY ON 5: Sources say 8-9 died at RRMC from drug diversion
MEDFORD, Ore. – Sources say several Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center patients are dead and police are now conducting a criminal investigation. NBC5 News broke the story Friday night (12/29/2023), that police were investigating at least one patient death at Rogue Regional Medical Center. Now seve...
- See the Whimsical Trolls Taking Over the Pacific Northwestwww.smithsonianmag.com See the Whimsical Trolls Taking Over the Pacific Northwest
Made with recycled materials, the large-scale sculptures are meant to encourage visitors to get out into nature
