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Ashland, Oregon is a town known for an annual Shakespeare Festival, its free thinkers and increasingly...nudity. The city council has been grappling with the issue of public nudity ever since a woman moved there from California several years ago.
Ashland, Oregon is a town known for an annual Shakespeare Festival, its free thinkers and increasingly...nudity. The city council has been grappling with the issue of public nudity ever since a woman moved there from California several years ago.
A close look at two tax measures on next month's ballot, and at the state's wind energy tax credit. Here are a dozen stories shaping business news in Oregon this morning.
•Brookings City Council, 7 p.m., Brookings City Hall council chambers, 898 Elk Drive, Brookings. •Southwestern Oregon Community College board of education, 7 p.m., Tioga Hall, room 505, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay.
SALEM — With former NBA player Chris Dudley likely announcing next week that he’s a Republican candidate for Oregon governor, some members of the party were still casting about for a candidate Friday. Dudley, who played center for the Portland Trail Blazers, plans to make a “major announcement” next week …
With former NBA player Chris Dudley likely announcing next week that he's a Republican candidate for Oregon governor, some members of the party were still casting about for a candidate Friday.
Oregon’s offshore oil drilling moratorium expires Jan. 2, enabling oil companies to propose exploratory wells in the state’s coastal waters. Though no oil companies are clamoring to drill anywhere off Oregon’s shore, some environmentalists don’t want to take a chance, after ...
It’s been years since protesters’ chants of “no nukes” have been heard in Portland. That’s because Portland General Electric pulled the plug on its oft-troubled Trojan Nuclear Plant 16 years ago, ending Trojan’s short and controversial spell as Oregon’s ...
Although not of his own doing, John Minnis entered Oregon politics on the coattails of controversy. Minnis was appointed to Oregon’s District 20 House seat in 1985 after voters recalled Republican Pat Gillis, who admitted to falsifying letters of support as well as his résumé. Despite the ...
Police say some Oregon marijuana farmers are taking advantage of a relatively new tool - a state-issued medical marijuana card - to help conceal their criminal activity.
By JULIE M. McKINNON BLADE STAFF WRITER Repeated expressions of thanks and praise - and occasional bouts of tears or laughter - were showered on Marge Brown as city employees, local residents, and others from throughout northwest Ohio threw the eight-year Oregon mayor a farewell party last week. Mrs. Brown, who lost a heated mayoral election last month to newly sworn-in Mayor Mike Seferian, was ...