Live updates: 2025 legislative session draws to a close • Oregon Capital Chronicle Live updates on the last few days of the 2025 Oregon legislative session from Oregon Capital Chronicle reporters.

Oregon Democrats’ last-ditch effort to stave off hundreds of layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation by passing a gas tax failed late Friday night after House Republicans refused to allow a vote. #orleg
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Newberg business owner arrested by ICE officials, alarming vineyard workers A vineyard business owner was arrested by federal immigration officials Thursday. The arrest follows an uptick of enforcement actions by the federal government in Oregon.

Moises Sotelo is the owner of Novo Start Vineyard Service, a company that provides pruning, pest control and harvesting services to vineyards in the Willamette Valley. He was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while he was on his way to work early in the morning.

Are you ‘jonesing to fire less lethal rounds’ and ‘launch gas canisters’? Oregon State Police SWAT email misses mark Oregon State Police tried to conceal this controversial SWAT recruitment email when The Oregonian/OregonLive requested it. Now state police are distancing themselves from it.

Great work from @maxbernstein.bsky.social and the Oregonian fighting to get a recruiting email from the state police SWAT team that repeatedly glorified violence.

the solution to everyone being lonely because we spend too much time scrolling instead of engaging meaningfully with one another is not this fam

I'm going to be some weird kind of Luddite because I would literally rather chat up a stranger with whom I disagree about a whole bunch of issues at a coffee shop than have my social and intellectual life be...whatever this is.

School superintendents urge Oregonians to speak up about federal cuts impacting kids • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon’s largest school districts say Trump administration cuts including to Head Start would have devastating impacts on families.

Superintendents of Oregon’s largest school districts say Trump administration cuts to food banks, threats to withhold school funding and a proposal to eliminate Head Start would have devastating impacts on Oregon children.

buff.ly/k5rWWm8 by @rachelwalexander.bsky.social of @salemreporter

That Friday reporter thing where you download a 42,000 row spreadsheet, search 3 databases and email 2 PIOs to try (so far unsuccessfully) to plug in one number for a story

Oregon college presidents join national move denouncing 'political interference' at U.S. colleges • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon college presidents signed a letter denouncing “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” in higher education.

Presidents of Willamette University and Chemeketa Community College joined more than 200 college leaders across the U.S. denouncing “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” in higher education.

buff.ly/4tk9BgW by @rachelwalexander.bsky.social of @salemreporter.bsky.social

it’s so much fun to be a woman writing about politics on the internet 🙃

out of context quotes from the newsroom slack: "could you please double check my number of molotov cocktails"

I'm still getting stuff set up here but it's nice to see some friends who I used to chat with on Twitter!

Meet Ben Xavier, the breakdancing arcade technician at Salem’s Chuck E. Cheese - Salem Reporter For nearly 35 years Ben Xavier has kept the video games and arcade machines functioning and updated at the Chuck E. Cheese.

Cleansing your timeline with this story from Joe Siess about a wonderful local Chuck E. Cheese employee: