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By Claudia Keith Climate Emergency Coordinator and Climate Emergency portfolio team members: Julie Chapman, Shirley Weathers, Cathy...

Oregon Legislative Days November 2021 The Oregon legislature is meeting Monday through Thursday this week, starting this morning. LWVOR...

Photo by Callum Shaw on Unsplash The annual UN Climate Conference, COP26, is underway in Glasgow, Scotland and 5 League representatives...

Dear LWVOR members, Welcome to November 2021! This is election week for some districts; Check your County Clerk listing on the SoS page...

LWVUS Voting Rights Push This week! A majority of Americans support the major voting rights bills in action in Congress. Wednesday’s...

By Terry Styner, Member of the Study Committee and the Washington County Unit Building on the 1988 LWV study on child care in Oregon, the...

by Peggy Lynch, Natural Resources Coordinator for the State Action Team 2021 legislative session was remarkable in many ways. For water...

By Becky Gladstone, LWVOR President Dear members, We are pleased to welcome a new VOTER editor and we will be asking you about a fresh...

By Peggy Bengry Since our 2017 position on election methods, new ideas have surfaced that, as our position states, could “affect how...

by Chris Cobey and Norman Turrill Proving Oregon residents’ abiding interest in Oregon’s redistricting process, Norman Turrill, Dan...

Wildfires have increasingly become part of our lives. As of early Sept, there are 23 active fires with more than 200,000 acres burned...

by Toni Lampkin The census has been completed and information is being tabulated for redistricting purposes. There are many recorded...

by Amelia Nestler Contact your local league for ways to participate in member consensus! https://www.lwvor.org/local-leagues End of...

Was anybody really surprised that Oregon legislators couldn’t agree on redistricting? We’re guessing you weren’t. It’s too political....

Immigration - Claudia Keith Immigration: This recent 9/26 ‘Effort could create a path to citizenship for undocumented Oregon...

By Claudia Keith Climate Emergency Coordinator and Climate Emergency portfolio team members: Julie Chapman, Shirley Weathers, Cathy...

by Peggy Lynch, Coordinator Air Quality: DEQ is asking for public comment on their Regional Haze 2021 Regional Implementation Plan. See...

by Josie Koehne, Coordinator Since the close of session in June and our Sine Die report on September 14, there is little to report since...

by Norman Turrill, Coordinator Redistricting The special session of the Legislative Assembly concluded Monday, the deadline, with passage...