News In 2007, Oregon lawmakers decided to address global warming by moving the state aggressively away from burning coal and natural gas to produce electricity. They required big utilities to gener   More

Murmurs City Commissioner Amanda Fritz won her council seat in 2008 with public financing, part of the short-lived experiment in Portland that voters killed last year. Facing re-election in 2012, Fritz    More

News Parties to the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement—an agreement that deals with water rights IF four PacifiCorp dams on the Klamath River in Southern Oregon & Northern California are ever removed—met last week in Sacramento. Confusingly, those parties are different from the groups party to a November Agreement in Principle to demolish four the PacifiCorp dams on the Klamath River ...   More