Oregon lawmakers end 2026 legislative session: What you need to know State legislators started the session Feb. 2 and gaveled out after a flurry of major policy and funding moves.

Here's most everything you'd want to know about the 2026 legislative session, care of @dirquez.bsky.social @laurenmdake.bsky.social + Bryce Dole www.opb.org/article/2026...

‘The Evergreen’: We go behind the scenes of Oregon’s short legislative session Oregon state lawmakers packed a lot into the 2026 short session before it adjourned last week. It’s also been years since lawmakers, lobbyists, the public and the press have worked together in the Sta...

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen:
OR lawmakers packed a lot into the short session that adjourned last week. It was also the 1st time that lawmakers, lobbyists, the public & the press have worked together in the building in years. We tagged along w @laurenmdake.bsky.social to hear what it was like:

The Blazer bill (SB 1501) passes the Senate on a 24 to 6 vote. #orleg #orpol

Plenty of support from both parties for the $365 million dollars to renovate the Moda Center to keep the Blazers in Portland on the Senate floor right now.

Despite, as Republican Sen. Fred Girod put it, Portland being about as popular in his district "as a rattlesnake in a sleeping bag." #orleg

How Portland’s ICE protests took the national stage In this first episode of the documentary series “The Crackdown," OPB takes a look at the protests in Portland, where nightly demonstrations on a single city block escalated into a test of presidential...

Happy Friday. OPB has a new documentary series called "The Crackdown." It's a must watch. Episode 1: War Ravaged is here. Check it out www.opb.org/article/2026...

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