The coming year heralds many changes in homeless services across America.

Instead of implementing meaningful protections for the Oregon side of the Owyhee Canyonlands, politicians have missed the opportunity to take effective action to protect this stunning area in southeast Oregon.

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Oregon’s U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary is among the more unusual and intriguing cabinet picks he’s made, and her appointment could have an impact on partisan politics — notably in Oregon.

Do reporters have more rights under the First Amendment than ordinary Americans? Should they?

Like it or not, the Constitution’s First Amendment gives the media special protection in the American republic. That amendment says, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom … of the press.”

Thanksgiving is my favorite American holiday. Let me count some of the ways I love Thanksgiving:

During the just-concluded campaign for attorney general, Republican Will Lathrop dodged a question about whether he supported his party’s presidential candidate by saying he was “laser focused” on public safety issues in Oregon and not on national politics. National issues, he suggested, wer…

Although Oregon mostly held to its usual political patterns this election, that doesn’t mean nothing changed.

Rarely do cities or other governments go through such a big organizational change, while at the same bringing in mostly new leadership, as Portland is doing now.

TV ads proclaim that Ballot Measure 117 allows for more choice in voting. That is not true. No new candidates will magically appear on your ballot upon passage of Measure 117. What Measure 117 does do is complicates voting. It takes the simple and easy to understand rule, “the candidate with…

Measure 115 on the November ballot is an unusual case.

It’s that time of year again. Fall is in the air, pumpkins are on front porches and negative campaign ads flood the airwaves and the internet. For those of us who treasure democracy and the right to vote, we find ourselves asking: “Is this the best we can do?”

This proposal may appeal to ministers, managers, families, counselors, and mediators.

Oregonians have become increasingly dissatisfied with our systems of representation at the state and local level and are interested in ways to restructure our elections to better reflect their interests, according to surveys by the Oregon Values and Beliefs Center.

The last vestiges of the golden age of governors passed with the death of former Washington Gov. Dan Evans. He died on Sept. 20 just four weeks shy of his 99th birthday.