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3 days ago | 
portlandtribune.com | Geoff Pursinger |Geoffrey Pursinger
Published 11:42 am Tuesday, June 24, 2025 The Pacific Northwest boasts natural splendors and world-class companies from Amazon and Microsoft to Nike and Columbia Sportswear. But a severe problem undercuts the region’s momentum: a deeply undersupplied housing market. Oregon and Washington need a combined 1.6 million new housing units to keep up with demand. Driven by the housing shortage, home ownership is out of reach for 80% of Washington families.
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4 days ago | 
portlandtribune.com | Geoff Pursinger |Geoffrey Pursinger
Published 6:40 am Tuesday, June 24, 2025 Lawmakers couldn’t find a compromise on a bill to regulate pharmacy benefit managersOregon lawmakers’ latest attempt to prop up the state’s struggling retail pharmacies by regulating middlemen companies has died amid uncertainty over the legislation’s complexity and pushback from insurance companies.
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5 days ago | 
portlandtribune.com | Geoff Pursinger |Geoffrey Pursinger
Published 4:24 am Monday, June 23, 2025 Nguyễn did not say Friday the extent to which she had recovered or for how long she would return to the chamberRep. Hòa Nguyễn, D-Portland on Friday returned to the Oregon House in her first official public appearance since announcing she was undergoing treatment for advanced cancer in February.
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1 week ago | 
portlandtribune.com | Geoff Pursinger |Geoffrey Pursinger
Published 6:29 am Friday, June 20, 2025 Last August, Northwest salmon caught a break when four dams on the Klamath River, which flows from mountain country in southwest Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean, were demolished. But it was a limited break. The goal of that $500 million project, possibly the largest of its kind in American history, remains unreached, and serious effort still is needed to fulfill it.
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1 week ago | 
portlandtribune.com | Geoff Pursinger |Geoffrey Pursinger
Published 6:31 am Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Both suppression and risk reduction are necessaryEach year, Oregon braces for wildfire season. And each year, we spend tens of millions (sometimes hundreds of millions) trying to put those fires out. But despite our best efforts, the fires keep getting worse — more dangerous and more destructive. Science tells us that suppression alone isn’t enough.
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1 week ago | 
westlinntidings.com | Geoff Pursinger |Geoffrey Pursinger
Published 6:45 am Tuesday, June 17, 2025 If Oregon wants to make lasting progress in reducing gun violence and the devastating ripple effects, the state must address a largely overlooked but crucial driver: the unchecked flow of firearms from licensed gun dealers to the illegal market. I’ve spent over 30 years studying the causes and consequences of gun violence and one thing is clear: The way we regulate or fail to regulate gun dealers has a clear impact on gun crime.
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1 week ago | 
lakeoswegoreview.com | Geoff Pursinger |Geoffrey Pursinger
If Oregon wants to make lasting progress in reducing gun violence and the devastating ripple effects, the state must address a largely overlooked but crucial driver: the unchecked flow of firearms from licensed gun dealers to the illegal market. I’ve spent over 30 years studying the causes and consequences of gun violence and one thing is clear: The way we regulate or fail to regulate gun dealers has a clear impact on gun crime.
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1 week ago | 
woodburnindependent.com | Geoff Pursinger |Geoffrey Pursinger
Published 6:45 am Tuesday, June 17, 2025 If Oregon wants to make lasting progress in reducing gun violence and the devastating ripple effects, the state must address a largely overlooked but crucial driver: the unchecked flow of firearms from licensed gun dealers to the illegal market. I’ve spent over 30 years studying the causes and consequences of gun violence and one thing is clear: The way we regulate or fail to regulate gun dealers has a clear impact on gun crime.
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2 weeks ago | 
portlandtribune.com | Geoff Pursinger |Geoffrey Pursinger
Published 6:25 am Friday, June 13, 2025 Oregon’s bottle bill, established in 1971 as the first in the U.S and the second worldwide, leads the nation with an 87% beverage container redemption rate (2023 data) and a preliminary redemption rate of 90% for 2024, far surpassing the beverage container recycling rate of 26% in non-bottle bill states.
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2 weeks ago | 
portlandtribune.com | Geoff Pursinger |Geoffrey Pursinger
Published 6:18 am Friday, June 13, 2025 President Donald Trump signed a Congressional Review Act resolution Thursday that revokes California’s authority to set tailpipe emissions standards, upending policy in California and 17 other states that tie their standards to that of the Golden State. California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Democratic attorneys general in 10 other states immediately sued to block enforcement of the law.
