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Renewal levies for the county's library system and the Washington County Sheriff's Office were on track to pass in the initial election results released at 8 p.m.
Western Washington County voters will have two questions on their ballots. The Washington County Sheriff's Office and the county's library system are each seeking replacement levies that will increase property taxes.
As Oregon lawmakers stare down a deficit of at least $373 million over the next two years they asked all state agencies to create lists of ways to cut 5% of their legislatively approved budgets.
After Judge Karin Immergut’s Saturday order preventing mobilization of the Oregon National Guard, the federal government ordered first California and then Texas troops to Portland.
Gov. Tina Kotek will order lawmakers back to the Capitol for a special session at the end of August to address a $350 million funding shortfall in the Department of Transportation’s budget that led to hundreds of state employees receiving layoff notices this month.
Thousands of Oregonians submitted letters opposing a Republican senator’s long-shot attempt to ask voters whether to repeal the state’s decades-old mail voting law, swamping the Legislature’s website on Monday. In Banks, Buxton, and Manning, testimony was split.
