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A bat from Southern Oregon has been crowned the winner of the Bureau of Land Management’s annual Bat Beauty Contest. It’s the third consecutive year that a bat from Oregon

A bat from Southern Oregon has been crowned the winner of the Bureau of Land Management's annual Bat Beauty Contest. It's the third consecutive year that a bat from Oregon has taken top honors.

Members of OPB’s politics team join us to provide analysis and share the latest updates on Oregon races in the general election. They’ll discuss the results of statewide ballot measures and analyze some of the congressional district races, as well as the latest developments in Portland’s historic elections to choose a new mayor and expand the city council from five seats to 12. We’ll also hear from some of the candidates who won or are leading in statewide and US Congressional races.

We hear from Rochelle Long, Klamath County Clerk and the president of the Oregon Association of County Clerks about the challenges county clerks faced during and leading up to the November general election.

On Wednesday, three Portland Commissioners — Mingus Mapps, Rene Gonzalez and Dan Ryan — decided to pull an ordinance they had filed to end the city’s eight-year partnership with Multnomah County to fight homelessness. The decision was made as Portland is poised to elect Keith Wilson, the owner of a trucking company as its next mayor who opposes the city leaving the Joint Office of Homeless Services. The newly elected 12-person city council, along with the new mayor, will get to decide the fate of the intergovernmental agreement with the county in just two months.

“Portland is in a moment of profound transformation and opportunity,” says Portland mayor-elect Keith Wilson, as he gives his official acceptance speech Thursday, at the Charles Jordan Community Center in Portland, Ore., Nov. 7, 2024. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB

Some renters in Washington state are faced with signing nondisclosure agreements in their leases that prevent them from discussing rent or other fees associated with their rentals.

A legal fight is brewing in Eastern Oregon where a coalition of timber interests is trying to block the sale of the only sawmill still operating in Grant County to Iron Triangle, a logging company in John Day.

Last month, Amazon announced it had signed an agreement to develop four small-scale modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs, along the Columbia River to power its data centers in Eastern Oregon. The e-commerce giant also touted nuclear energy as a “safe source of carbon-free energy” that would allow it to achieve its goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

This week, Oregon’s new state economist, Carl Riccadonna, gave his first quarterly economic and revenue forecast. It projected Oregon getting nearly $950 million more in the current two-year period than previously estimated, and an extra $1.3 billion in the 2025-2027 budget cycle. Riccadonna, who was hired in September