Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...
Whether a tiny nonprofit or a corporate behemoth looking to curry favor with a Multnomah County commissioner to influence policy or funding decisions, it’s no holds barred, for the most part. And it ...
Proponents say they have more in common with their rural brethren across state lines ... eastern Oregon have been laying the groundwork to separate from the Democratic-dominated counties on ...
Letha Tawney, one of three commissioners on the Oregon Public Utility Commission, said if BPA leaves the Western market, it will create needless problems. If a transmission line trips off because ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A banner advocating for eastern Oregon counties to leave the state and join Idaho is shown on the side of a ...
A banner advocating for eastern Oregon counties to leave the state and join Idaho is shown on the side of a store in Mitchell, Ore., May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Claire Rush) ...
The calls for geopolitical changes are growing in rural Illinois and Oregon, where residents want to separate ... In the past five years, 33 Illinois counties have considered a ballot measure to ...