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Oregon Legislature adjourns 2025 session as Democrats’ transportation plans stumble

In the end, Oregon lawmakers did grapple with the biggest questions before them this year. All it took was six months of grinding work weeks. The 2025 legislative session ended Friday evening at 11:15 p.m. after a marathon day packed with more drama and uncertainty than any session in recent memory. With the final gavels, lawmakers bid farewell to a session that included some notable accomplishments — and one dizzying failure.

June 28, 2025

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Oregon Legislature pivots to 3-cent gas tax increase instead of $11.7 billion transportation package

Oregon Democrats have pulled the plug on a transportation package more than a year in the making, pivoting to a 3-cent increase to the state gas tax that supporters and opponents alike said was nothing more than a Band-Aid.

June 27, 2025

Federal government

Read the full Capital Chronicle interview with U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz

Senior reporter Alex Baumhardt recently conducted a wide-ranging 45-minute phone interview with U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz, Oregon’s sole Republican in Congress. Baumhardt published an article with highlights. Here, we’re publishing the full transcript, along with annotations.

June 16, 2025

Politics

Bentz defends Republican tax and spending bill, despite costs and cuts impacting his district

In a 45-minute phone interview with the Capital Chronicle on June 6, Oregon’s lone Republican congressman, Cliff Bentz, defended the Republican tax and spending bill, adding that middle and low-income families, small businesses and the timber industry would be particularly pleased

June 16, 2025

Housing

Oregon bill would make landlords give back rent deposit or pay fee if home found defective

Oregon rental applicants who haven’t yet signed a lease could get their deposits back if they find the home they’ve applied to is defective. House Bill 3521 would let Oregon renters get their deposits back if the home they’ve applied to has defects making it uninhabitable.

June 15, 2025

Events

Thousands protest against Trump at No Kings rally in Medford

Thousands of people crammed sidewalks waving signs and cheering in celebration of No Kings Day in Medford on Saturday.

June 15, 2025

Events

‘No Kings’ protest planned Saturday in Medford

Southern Oregonians are expected to turn out Saturday as part of a nationwide protest dubbed “No Kings” protesting how President “Donald Trump has been reaching for unprecedented powers, fashioning himself a ruler in a country founded on a rejection of kings,” according to an event announcement posted on the Oregon District 2 Indivisible website.

June 12, 2025

Politics

In major reversal, Kotek seeks return of fugitive suspected of targeting Asian Oregonians

Gov. Tina Kotek on Friday said she’s ordered the extradition of a suspected member of a multi-state burglary ring who allegedly targeted Asian households throughout the Eugene area and fled to Texas, averting some of the blowback she faced for rejecting the extradition earlier this week.

June 8, 2025

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Oregon’s U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz insists Republicans ‘not cutting’ Medicaid, SNAP

Oregon’s lone Republican representative in Congress defended the party’s decision to attach new work and citizenship requirements to Medicaid eligibility at a virtual town hall Wednesday night and said there is a “travesty” of able-bodied, non-working Americans.

May 23, 2025

Ashland School District

School board candidates hold ‘thoughtful’ forum

Eight candidates for the Ashland school board shared more common ground than differences at a forum held Sunday at Ashland High School.

May 7, 2025

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