1+ week, 4+ day ago   (173+ words) Evrek Smith's platform raises important questions about what we expect from our City Council. Housing affordability, childcare, homelessness, transportation and responsible budgeting deserve serious attention. But a City Council election should also be about what a councilor can realistically accomplish…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (161+ words) Oregon’s electricity demand is rapidly increasing, and this trend is expected to continue in the coming years. New technologies such as artificial intelligence and electric vehicles are driving up electricity consumption, while households are seeing costs increase. Between 2015 and 2025, 382 whales…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (153+ words) As this newspaper reported on its front page several weeks ago, Oregon’s economic picture is bleak. We are 49th in the nation in private sector job growth. Paychecks are growing at half the national rate. Our unemployment is 20% higher than the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (94+ words) There are signs the AI boom is helping lift the manufacturing sector; U.S. factories added 5,000 jobs in July. Can you buy happiness? A new YouGov survey of more than 5,000 U.S. adults scores spending and joy by generation. It drew fresh warnings that…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (227+ words) More than 300 companies are displaying humanoid robots, industrial machines, service robots and other forms of embodied artificial intelligence at the Beijing's 2026 World Robot Conference. The five-day event kicked off on August 19, coinciding with Unitree's stock-market debut. The company, China's best-known…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (195+ words) Retail sales fell more than half a percent last month, the biggest drop in more than a year, due mostly to soaring gas prices and persistent inflation, and the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz is playing a big…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (130+ words) It appears that Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon fell out of the U.S. news. Is Shelly Boshart Davis still running for state representative in District 15? I’ve looked on her campaign website and it looks the same as fo… The Democratic…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (135+ words) Who can we trust? Who can we believe? Trump lies and speaks nonsense constantly. He says he’s negotiating with Iran; Iran says there are no negotiations and sends missiles at U.S. bases. Iran has vowed to destroy us. I trust…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (161+ words) After Donald Trump’s address on Thursday and Mullin’s threats on Friday, anyone who doubts that Trump will do everything possible to steal the midterms is willfully ignorant or simply not paying attention. Oregon voters just hung a 4-to-1 drubbing of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (180+ words) When major television networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN — declined to fully air the President's address on election integrity last week, they crossed an important line. This was more than political bias; it was a failure to let the American…...