U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley said the Republican-led Senate focused on all the wrong things in 2017, prioritizing what people in power want over the needs of the working class.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, is feeling optimistic about the changes at the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center. It’s like night and day, he said, over what it was just a few months ago.
Douglas County will join the rest of the nation in honoring the men and women who died serving their country with a variety of activities in several locations.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, will hold a town hall meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Elkton High School gym at 739 River Drive.
Congress passed the Oregon Tribal Economic Development Act Wednesday. It will allow Oregon tribes including the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians to buy and sell their private lands just as other Americans do.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio Wednesday called for reforms and stronger oversight of veterans hospitals in testimony before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.
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As an on-again, off-again resident of the Big Island of Hawaii, Roseburg native Ryan Finlay is no stranger to the destruction caused by the Kilauea volcano.
Street signs pepper front lawns and roadsides, while radio ads fill the airwaves. And all of it costs money.
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It seems hell hath no fury like a Republican candidate accused of being soft on Second Amendment rights.
Registered Republicans will choose from a crowded field of five candidates in the May primary for the Fourth Congressional District. Democrats will choose between longtime incumbent Peter DeFazio of Springfield and political newcomer Daniel Arcangel of Monmouth. The winners of each primary r…
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, will hold a town hall meeting at 4 p.m. May 4 at Reedsport Community Charter School, Pacific Auditorium, 2260 Longwood Drive.
Register by 11:59 p.m. today if you want to vote in the May 15 primary.
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The 190,000-acre Chetco Bar Fire raged through the forest Court Boice loved all his life and came perilously close to the town of Brookings in the summer of 2017. It was that devastating fire, and the belief that it was caused by poor public policy, that inspired Boice to run for Congress.
Douglas County officials and Oregon’s Congressional delegation hailed the extension of Secure Rural Schools payments for two years as a victory last month, when the 2018 omnibus spending bill including the payments was passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump.
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Restored federal Secure Rural Schools payments to Douglas County and other timber-dependent counties are in the 2018 omnibus spending bill, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, announced Wednesday. The payments are included in a spending package which emerged from negotiations between Congressional lea…
Congressional candidate Art Robinson paid Cambridge Analytica $20,000 in 2014 to collect data on how to hone his campaign message to potential voters, according to federal election records. He was one of the first American politicians to use the service.
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Students across the country participated in the nationwide school walkout on Wednesday to protest school violence and shootings.
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President Donald Trump’s proposal to replace some food stamp benefits with pre-packaged “harvest boxes” seems like a step backward to United Community Action Network Director Mike Fieldman and FISH Food Pantry Board President John Sloan.
