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.

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?”

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.

If the Oregon lawmakers who crafted Measure 116 had done their homework, they wouldn’t be asking voters to create a “Commission of Unanswered Questions” to deal with the important, and always contentious, issue of how to set pay rates for themselves and other elected officials.

A reader reacting to the news of noncitizens being registered to vote in Oregon recently sent me an email, saying: “Oregon does such a great job they register illegals to vote. That’s democracy for sure the Democrat way.”

I screamed in my car for what felt like five minutes after the phone call.

The pictures and the stories from where the four Klamath River dams have been removed is heartbreaking.

Oregon’s public defender problems have been getting much better and much worse at the same time.

It has been a little over 10 years since the Klamath Falls community pulled together to assist with raising high school graduation rates in the basin and increasing the level of academically prepared students at Klamath Community College, giving them a leg up in furthering their education.

The widespread take on the June 28 U.S. Supreme Court decision sustaining Grants Pass restrictions on public camping was widely interpreted as kicking the issue, as it did with abortion in the Dobbs decision, to the states.

Today, social media like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat are sources of much of our political information (international and local).