State of Oregon

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.

House Speaker Tina Kotek agreed to slow momentum on the state's cap-and-trade bill to prevent a Republican walkout.