A bill to fund road maintenance and stave off hundreds of layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation narrowly cleared the Oregon House on Monday.

Oregonians shouldn’t have to wonder who’s knocking on their door in the middle of the night,” said Cyrus Javadi, a Tillamook Republican.

House Republican Leader Christine Drazan spoke out against the recent passage of a $4.3 billion tax package by the Oregon House today.

In response to David Newson’s recent opinion piece, “Reforming Portland’s high-tax system will protect programs, not gut them” (Aug. 24), readers are weighing ...