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The month of October is LGBTQ+ History Month. This month marks a time to educate ourselves on the rich history of LGBTQ+ Oregonians, acknowledge historical and current discrimination, celebrate hard-won policy victories, and recommit our efforts to make Oregon a more inclusive place to live for us all.

Today, 1000 Friends of Oregon will celebrate, reflect, and honor Indigenous People’s Day.

Bridget's focus is on researching how Oregon can transform statewide land use planning goal 1 to be more effective and inclusive.

SB 16 will take farmland out of production and allow houses to be located in an area prone to severe drought and wildfire risk.

What do you get when you spend $3 to $5 billion in tax dollars to widen I-5 to sixteen lanes to shave minutes off the commute of Washington State residents? The “Interstate Bridge Replacement” Project.

Applicants wanted the Polk County Commissioners to rezone over 200 acres of farmland from Exclusive Farm Use to zoning that would allow small-acre residential developments.

Oregon is known for its temperate weather, not the three-digit, record-setting temperatures we experienced at the end of June and into early July. Some parts of the state reached 117 degrees, not far from the average temperature of Death Valley, home of the world record for the highest temperature ever recorded.

Farmers and conservation groups decry Columbia County’s approval of the controversial Columbia River estuary industrial port expansion.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Henry Richmond, founder of 1000 Friends of Oregon and father of land use planning.

“[T]he problem for western civic societies is not so much defending against hostile and abusive use of technology. Instead, it’s failing to use technology to rediscover what democracy should be for the modern nation state: citizens participating personally in public debate and having meaningful say in policy decisions that affect them—without the distorting and corruptible role of legislative proxies or elitist agency officials.”