🚙 Oregon lawmakers have proposed a transportation funding package that includes a 20-cent hike on the gas tax, a 1% tax on vehicle sales and a new user fee for owners of electric vehicles. (OPB)
🪧 A union representing more than 1,350 Clackamas County employees voted to authorize a labor strike amid disagreements over cost-of-living raises and benefits, though no date has been set for a work stoppage. (KGW)
🚨 Ongoing flooding in southeastern Oregon, due to heavy rains and "historic" levels of snowmelt, has damaged homes, submerged roads and forced the evacuation of some 1,200 people. (KOIN)
🍁 Oregon has spent roughly $46 million on curtailing black market marijuana over the last seven years, but officials don't know if they've actually put a dent in the problem. (Oregon Capital Chronicle)