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December 23, 2025 - Security increases for Jewish activities in Portland

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation The December 14 attack on members of the Australian Jewish community celebrating Hannukah, which killed 15 people and injuring 42 others, prompted Oregon leaders to bolster security at events. • Security was tightened as 500 people gathered at Pioneer Square in Portland to mark […]


December 22, 2025 - Student contests to support life

Robert Young, Jr. Community Outreach Specialist, Oregon Right to Life, I know you’ve probably been getting lots of emails lately as we get closer to Christmas, so I’ll keep this one short and to the point: Deadlines for our student contests are coming up almost as fast as Christmas is! […]


December 16, 2025 - Jewish artwork fountain needs repair on its 100th

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, A Jewish Polish immigrant over a hundred years ago in Portland created the Semhanski fountain.  It is called “Rebecca at the well” as it depicts the Bible Genesis story of how the great patriarch Isaac met his wife, Rebecca, at a well. The very […]


December 15, 2025 - What does the Christmas spirit really mean?

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon headquartered ministry When J. I. Packer’s book Knowing God came out in 1973, I was a young Christian. God used it in my life profoundly, and it is still one of my top five books of all time. I appreciate these challenging words from Knowing […]


December 10, 2025 - Wyden: Bill protects Baha’i from Iran oppression

(Photo: Baha’i temple in India) By U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Press Release, Wyden, Boozman, and 19 Colleagues Introduce Resolution Condemning Baha’i Oppression in Iran The Iranian Baha’i community is the largest religious minority in Iran, with more than 300,000 members Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator […]


December 8, 2025 - Corporate Philanthropy Innovation Award winner: A-dec

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, Collaborative efforts to create a $7 million child care center known as the Northwest Early Learning Academy in Newberg, which will open by 2027 and serve 200 children, recently own a corporate philanthropy innovation award, according to The Portland Business Journal. A-Dec, a dental […]


December 3, 2025 - Homeless squatter turns on pastor who helped

By Oregon Faith News Note, A squatter moved into the master bedroom of a pastor’s home in Salem, Ore., and refused to leave until paid $2,500, according to a story in Newsweek. Jennifer and John Chamberlain thought they were helping when they let a woman live temporarily in a shed […]


December 1, 2025 - Of judgement and social media

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon headquartered ministry The human impulse to rush to judgment has always existed, but now it is common to believe whatever we hear and then post outrage using social media. But what if in our use of social media we applied the concepts of […]


November 26, 2025 - George Fox becomes Oregon’s largest private university

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, George Fox University, a liberal arts college in Newberg, Ore., has grown in the past two decades to become the state’s largest private university with more than 4,350 students enrolled this year, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. What started as a small Quaker college […]


November 24, 2025 - Practical Ways to Defeat Bullying in Your School

By The Protectors, Their letters are separated by zip code, but united through bewilderment and feelings of betrayal from the organizations they believed would protect their child from bullying—the leading form of child abuse in the nation, and the only form of abuse we tell the most vulnerable among us […]