SUTHERLIN — Sandy Mayor Stan Pulliam told area residents he’s running for governor because he has seen the impact of state COVID-19 mandates on small businesses across the state.
SUTHERLIN — Sandy Mayor Stan Pulliam told area residents he’s running for governor because he has seen the impact of state COVID-19 mandates on small businesses across the state.
Two state legislators told the state House Committee on Business and Labor this week that healthcare workers, grocery checkout clerks and others who worked in high-risk jobs during the pandemic should get one-time relief payments from the state.
Stan Pulliam, mayor of Sandy and candidate for Oregon governor, will visit Sutherlin Friday morning during a campaign tour of Southern Oregon.
State Rep. Christine Goodwin will run for the state Legislature this year, but not in the district she currently serves.
Rainey Lambert, well known to readers of The News-Review sports pages, has filed to run in the Democratic primary for state House District 2.
A host of new laws passed by the Oregon Legislature last year took effect on Saturday.
Greater Idaho will be on the May ballot in Douglas County.
The state Department of Justice has been illegally spying on opponents of the Pacific Connector Pipeline, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Oregon Circuit Court in Marion County.
State Sen. Dallas Heard was removed from the Senate floor at the end of Monday’s special legislative session because he was not wearing a mask.
Citizens for Greater Idaho President Mike McCarter brought a box filled with sheets containing 3,689 signatures to the elections office at the Douglas County Courthouse Tuesday.
In February 2020, 13 environmental groups and 13 timber industry groups began holding a series of meetings around a virtual table.
The Oregon People’s Rebate would put about $750 in the pocket of every person — adult or child — in the state each year. For a family of four, that would be $3,000.
Oregon Interim House Rep. Christine Goodwin, R-Myrtle Creek, filed a campaign committee this week for state House District 2.
Gubernatorial candidate San Pulliam, who is the mayor of Sandy, will visit Roseburg for a meet and greet Friday.
Idahoans would welcome disgruntled rural Oregon counties into their fold, according to the results of a recent poll.
Virgle Osborne will not have to move after all to run for state House District 2 in the 2022 election.
Douglas County will be split between two congressional districts, a move that will alter the landscape for the 2022 elections.
State Sen. Dallas Heard, R-Myrtle Creek, said he turned up at Douglas High School Wednesday morning for a speech that some students invited him to give, but the administration kicked him out.
Roseburg Republican Steve Loosley has formed a campaign committee for the House District 2 seat formerly held by Rep. Gary Leif.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Patrick Starnes may have changed parties, but his positions on the issues remain consistent.
Each decade, new maps for Congressional and legislative districts are drawn based on the latest U.S. Census data. Democrats and Republicans from the state Senate and House Redistricting Committees have put forward separate proposals for where the boundary lines should be.
Douglas County is one of the 10 slowest growing counties in Oregon.
Christine Goodwin was appointed interim representative for state House District 2 Thursday.
Rep. Gary Leif, R-Roseburg, was remembered Thursday as a man who championed his community and was well-liked by people across the political spectrum, in a time when that’s become a rare quality.
More Oregonians oppose the idea of losing parts of the state to Idaho than support it.
State Sen. Dallas Heard, R-Myrtle Creek, said Tuesday he remains concerned about whether the state Capitol will reopen to the public after COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.
Voters will decide next year whether to enshrine a right to health care in the Oregon Constitution.
Roseburg Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul Romero has laid out some campaign promises he calls his “Contract with Oregon.”
In the current legislative session, state Sen. Dallas Heard has voted “no” on every bill that’s come up for a vote. It’s his protest against the closure of the state Capitol to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Population in the state and congressional districts that serve Douglas County has declined, but how that will affect the new district maps being drawn by Oregon legislators remains unclear.
Republican legislators serving Douglas County think the governor’s COVID-19 executive orders are gone too far and it’s time for the Legislature to step in.
Sen. Dallas Heard, R-Myrtle Creek, is back to work and voting “no” on everything after recovering from COVID-19.
Each of Oregon’s state legislators was asked to submit projects this week for how they’d like to see millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief money spent in their districts.
A newly proposed bill would bar state Sen. Dallas Heard, R-Myrtle Creek, from holding office in the Oregon Republican Party while simultaneously serving as a state elected official.
The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that will provide $1.5 million in funding for an emergency shelter in Roseburg.
