By Jeff Helfrich, Oregon State Representative for the 52nd District
Updated
February was a month of celebration. Oregon celebrated its 164th birthday, and we completed our first month of the legislative session in Salem. Now the priorities are beginning to come into focus.
In the recent Columbia Gorge News’ report, “Energy Storage Project Moving Forward,” Eric Steimle, vice president of project development for Rye Development, is pictured posing on a hillside, an area that Rye would destroy as part of its pumped-storage hydroelectric development. An unabashed portrait, atop an article that only mentions the “potential” for loss or damage to tribal culturally significant resources once and as part of the development’s “environmental impacts.”
It has been a whirlwind year with many, many changes and I am beyond excited we have remained the Gorge's newspaper. I am appreciative of the support in the community and my team’s ability to remain resilient and dedicated to our mission as a local news source for the Gorge.
Oregon’s congressional delegation found themselves trapped by protestors who stormed the Capitol in protest of the Electoral College vote to verify the election of Joe Biden as President.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Jan. 6, Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley's office released the following statement after a mob, incited by President Trump, assaulted police officers and stormed the Capitol, and a group of Republican senators attempted to block the congressional certification of the Ele…
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