Top 5 headlines 1 Regulators approve more electricity rate hikes 2 Insurance dropping homes over wildfire map 3 Auditor: Gov.’s office potential ethics violations 4 State health officials prepare for Trump  changes 5 Oregon ranks among strictest gun laws states Bonus Train derails, bridge collapses into river Secret recording ban upheld, Project Veritas to appeal […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com – The above photo shows how a bulldozer was used to clear abandoned vehicles in the middle of the road.  The fact that many false evacuation phone alerts were sent caused many people to stay at home and ignore the real ones that came in later.  This caused a […]

OR-OSHA’s New Farmworker Housing Rules Will Force Out Farmworkers, Shutter Family Farms New Rules Exceed Federal Housing Standards By Oregon Farm Bureau, Salem, Ore – OR-OSHA adopted updates to its Division 4 – Ag Labor Housing (ALH) rules. While this marks an end to regulatory uncertainty after a tedious and emotionally draining, six-year process – […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com The Oregon State Forester, Cal Mukumoto, has announced his resignation. This follows a December Special Session bailout of the agency, two top officers with workplace violations, and this week’s news of a business meeting at a luxury resort — $8,000+ to host five people.   Here are Kotek’s other […]

By Guest Submission Meme, The fire-fighter planes do not have to be the symbol of California, if the liberals were to just let their state be run like a normal fire-prevention state.      

The Ninth Circuit has reinstated Oregon’s ban on surreptitious public recordings. This reverses the Court’s 2023 panel decision I had previously written about. In Project Veritas v. Michael Schmidt, the famous undercover group proactively sued Multnomah County and the State of Oregon over the law. Up to this point, the litigation hinged on standing. Now […]