By NICK BUDNICK/Oregon Capital Bureau If Oregon pandemic officials had a TV show these last two months, it could be called “In Search of Swabs” — and just about every […]
By PETER WONG/Oregon Capital Bureau State agencies have been told to prepare spending cuts that may amount to 8.5% of their share of the tax-supported general fund in the next […]
BY DICK HUGHES/Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon legislators balked Thursday at loaning $50 million in federal money to rural hospitals reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. Members of the Legislative Emergency Board […]
By PETER WONG/Oregon Capital Bureau Gov. Kate Brown says she will not recommend a suspension of Oregon’s new corporate activity tax, contrary to what groups such as the Portland Business […]
By DICK HUGHES/Oregon Capital Bureau Regardless of where they live, most Oregonians support Gov. Kate Brown’s stay at home orders, according to survey results released Wednesday by an independent firm. […]
By DICK HUGHES/Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon’s economic reopening likely will be more gradual than what President Donald Trump has suggested. Churches, theaters, gyms and sporting events initially would remain closed. […]
By DICK HUGHES/Oregon Capital Bureau In two weeks Gov. Kate Brown could have a firm plan for reopening parts of Oregon’s economy, probably starting with rural counties. Brown held a […]
By PETER WONG/Oregon Capital Bureau Even as a legislative panel prepares this week to draw from the state’s emergency fund, Oregon faces a steep drop in income taxes that the […]
By DICK HUGES/Oregon Capital Bureau Reopening of Oregon businesses will occur “gradually, carefully and incrementally,” Gov. Kate Brown said Tuesday, but she refused to say when that might happen. “It […]
By DICK HUGHES/Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday that she will work with the governors of Washington and California on when to reopen their states’ economies. “We […]
