Oregon, constituent state of the U.S. It is bounded to the north by Washington, to the east by Idaho, to the south by Nevada and California, and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Its largest city is Portland and its capital is Salem, both of which are in
unless the SoS has been appointed and not elected. State Sen. Shemia Fagan (b.1981) flipped an open GOP-held seat in 2020 with 50%. She resigned in 2023 in an influence-peddling scandal. Gov. Tina Kotek appointed novelist and former Portland city auditorLavonne Griffin-Valade(b.1954) to...
the state capital by popular vote. The city was an early river port whose growth was stimulated by railroad connections in the 1870s. Salem became the food-processing centre for a vast dairying, fruit, and truck-garden area; wood and light manufacturing industries also developed in the city....
InternationalâMedford Airport, the state's third-busiest airport. To the south, near the California border, is the city of Ashland. Eastern Oregon is sparsely populated, but is home to Hermiston, which with a population of 18,000 is the largest and fastest-growing city in the ...
book. Interested visitors can find that in theSiuslaw Pioneer Museumin the nearby city of Florence. Despite having an unorthodox history, though, the town struggles today with a declining populace. Leading reasons likely include its aging population and higher unemployment rate than the national ...
Portland is Oregon’s most populous city, with a population of 635,067. 60% of the population lives in the Portland metropolitan area in the northwest region of the state. Eugene and Salem are the next largest cities. Salem, the state capital, is one of the nation’s top food-processing...
Biden brokers $1 billion deal with Oregon, Washington, 4 Columbia River tribes to revive Northwest salmon population BYMatthew DalyandThe Associated Press February 24, 2024 Finance Oregon newspaper that fired entire staff after embezzlement to relaunch print edition thanks to fundraising, community suppo...
However, these estimates do differ at the local level. This final chart today compares the 2020-2023 percent change in county population estimates between the PSU numbers on the horizontal axis, and the Census numbers on the vertical axis. Counties above the dotted line, Census estimates grew fa...
Another true small town (with less than 2,000 citizens) made famous in the 1980’s movie Stand by Me, Brownsville makes it to almost all the lists of “best small towns in Oregon for visitors”. What the city lacks in terms of population, it makes up for in its lovely natural landsca...
With a growing population and rapid development, much of recent focus has been onPortland’scity center, in an effort to preserve the existing natural landscape that surrounds the urban areas. Built of prefabricatedcross-laminated timberpanels and glu-lam beams around asteelcore, Carbon12’s hybri...