Oregon Faces Budget Challenges and Holiday Storms as 2025 Legislative Session Approaches
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Oregon Faces Budget Challenges and Holiday Storms as 2025 Legislative Session Approaches
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At the Capitol, lawmakers are preparing for the 2025 session with budget pressures already shaping the agenda. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the state faces an estimated 63 million dollar deficit through June 2027, prompting Governor Tina Kotek to direct agencies to model cuts of 2.5 and 5 percent, including potential reductions to agricultural education and Oregon FFA funding that has helped grow student participation by more than 50 percent in six years, according to OPB. Lawmakers on the Joint Ways and Means Committee are being urged by agricultural educators to spare those programs, arguing they deliver an outsized impact for rural students and families, OPB notes.
Business groups are also zeroing in on tax and labor policy. The National Federation of Independent Business says Oregon’s small firms will again push to raise the Corporate Activity Tax exemption from 1 million to 5 million dollars, a change NFIB argues would remove more than 70 percent of current payers and ease pressure from rising costs and labor shortages. NFIB also reports it will back an “equal pay law fix” to explicitly allow hiring and retention bonuses, which are currently restricted under Oregon’s unique equal pay rules.
On the local front, school and youth investments are moving ahead even amid budget anxieties. The Daily Journal of Commerce reports Portland Public Schools is advancing a 349 million dollar rebuild of Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School, a 291,000-square-foot project that has been reshaped by inflation and budget constraints but still promises modern academic, arts, and athletic facilities. In Central Oregon, the Redmond Spokesman reports Heart of Oregon Corps has secured a 300,000 dollar grant toward a 7.3 million dollar youth campus set to open in 2026, supporting job training and education for young people ages 16 to 24.
Public safety remains in the spotlight in Portland. KATU reports two people were injured in separate stabbings along Northeast Broadway and nearby streets on Christmas Eve, prompting a large police response as officers work to determine whether the incidents are connected.
Weather has been a top concern heading into the holiday. Earlier this week, KTVZ and the Oregon Department of Transportation warned of a potentially powerful Christmas Eve windstorm that could bring down trees, knock out power, and snarl travel across the coast, Willamette Valley, and Cascades. But Oregon Public Broadcasting and KATU now report that the low-pressure system weakened and shifted, sparing the Willamette Valley from the worst winds, though strong gusts and scattered outages still hit parts of southern and eastern Oregon.
Looking ahead, listeners should watch the 2025 legislative session for decisions on tax policy, budget cuts, and school and career-technical funding, follow updates on major school construction and youth infrastructure projects, and monitor evolving winter storm patterns that could still affect mountain travel and rural power systems in the coming weeks.
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