State of Oregon

Analysts say the outcome of the special session called by Gov. Tina Kotek to avert layoffs and close a transportation funding gap could affect ratings.

A coastal Oregon tribe sued the federal government to slow the issuance of two offshore wind leases.

Republican Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer pressured the Federal Highway Administrator to stop the state's tolling plan for highways in the Portland area.

Justin Cooper, Orrick's co-head of public finance, breaks down how states like Oregon, Washington and California are funding efforts to lessen their affordable housing and homelessness crises. Keeley Webster hosts (24 minutes)

The state's Democratic leaders approved $19 million in emergency funding for road maintenance and snowplows after ODOT said it would cut back snowplow services to four days a week amid inflationary pressures and gas tax revenue declines.

Jaime Alvarez, who joined the Oregon State Treasury from Houston in 2021, was named the state's director of debt management in October.

The Bond Buyer's Deal of the Year awards will mark the 22nd year it has recognized outstanding achievement in municipal finance. The event, to be held Dec. 5 in New York City, will also include the presentation of the Freda Johnson Awards for Trailblazing Women in Public Finance.

States are dealing with budget surpluses with taxpayer rebates, infrastructure projects and debt service.

Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read called off a lottery bond sale planned in 2020 after lottery revenues cratered because of pandemic-related business closures.

Between unspent money from last year and excess revenues, Oregon lawmakers have nearly $1 billion of extra money to spend.

The question looms as to what point heightened wildfire activity becomes a significant risk for municipal debt.

Fire scorched two million acres across both states, but muni credits remained relatively unscathed.

Lawmakers received word of the improved forecast just before the release in early March of the first-draft proposal for the state’s two-year budget.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown championed aspects of her proposed budget that would move the needle on racial and income equality in the state.

The governors in Oregon and California point out that climate change has exacerbated the conditions that start and accelerate wildfires.

State lawmakers closed a $1.2 billion budget hole during a 15-hour special session, but they may need to return in the absence of federal coronavirus aid.

A COVID-19-driven decline in lottery revenue led Oregon postpone a $302 million bond sale because the deal wouldn't meet an additional bonds test.

Yields have essentially remained flat since mid-June as the market has digested new issues well and investors are starved for paper, especially tax-exempts.

Oregon's $320.4 million of taxable GO bonds were 7.7 times oversubscribed in some maturities.

Kate Brown also joined with the other governors and officials of the western states to urge Congress and the Trump administration to approve $1 trillion in aid.