Jeff Eager
@Jeff_Eager
Dad, writer, lawyer, former mayor, long ago Cap Hill press sec. Write/pod/lament about OR politics at Oregon Roundup.
How many words does it take to say nothing?
We are strong, resilient, and unified by our shared belief in a brighter tomorrow. And, as your governor, I will always have your back and work hard to uplift and protect our wonderful state, boldly and with perseverance in partnership with other elected and community leaders.
Weird way to describe a .01 drop in avg mortgage rates.
Average mortgage rate eases, keeping home loan borrowing costs elevated oregonlive.com/business/2025/…
It's always good to remember the perennial genre in the major media that CHINA IS BEATING THE US IN THE GREEN ENERGY RACE.
It’s quite obvious what China is doing here…running the largest cheap coal-fired economy whilst simultaneously pumping capital and green narratives all over the world to give it a seat at the energy table …to install a Chinese ‘kill switch’ in foreign power grids and EVs.
Oregon does indeed have tremendous natural spaces. It also has relatively poor mental health. So what gives?
New research from @oregonstate confirms what many of us felt during the pandemic: outdoor recreation isn't a luxury—it's essential to our mental health. Lucky for Oregon, there’s no shortage of breathtaking natural spaces to take advantage of this summer to bring joy and health.
Trump’s coming for the boofing kits.
President Trump’s new executive order, Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets, takes a bold stand against addiction profiteering and failed “harm reduction” policies. It redirects federal dollars toward what actually works: prevention, treatment, and drug courts. It…
The thing about a governor/state government whose self-declared top priority is employee attributes (race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, union seniority) not performance is you get bad performance. OED has been a headline-grabbing crater since at least 2020.
Kotek demands plan from Oregon Employment Department after Frances Online complaints koin.com/news/oregon/ko…
A Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested for credit card fraud in Tallahassee, Florida.
My kids asked me what games I used to play on my IPad as a kid. I told them I used to speak into a fan to sound like a robot.
Huh. New war just dropped.
Fighting along the border between Cambodia and Thailand continues into the night, as footage shows what appears to be a RM-70 Multiple-Launch Rocket System (MLRS) with the Royal Cambodian Army firing against targets in Thailand.
“… The state transportation agency … has overseen megaprojects that have ballooned in cost & scope. Multiple audits have also determined that numerous bureaucratic inefficiencies have delayed work at 𝓷𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓵𝔂 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓬𝔂.” Emphasis added.
🚨 The US Treasury just dropped its June 2025 report. Buried in the numbers: 27.5% of all government revenue last month went to interest on the debt. Not programs. Not services. Just interest. (Save this thread)
Capitalism has been so successful at eradicating poverty, hunger, and hardship that it gave rise to a generation utterly detached from the realities of production, trade, and effort. They’ve grown up in comfort, surrounded by abundance, and instead of gratitude, they respond with…
Tina Kotek has and will do anything to avoid laying off state workers, but she wants us to believe she'll really do it, this time.
NEW: OR Gov Tina Kotek promised legislators she’d immediately lay off 600-700 transportation workers if they didn’t raise taxes in June. They didn’t and she didn’t. Now Kotek’s using the same bluff for the Aug 29 special session, expecting us to believe she means it this time.
NEW: OR Gov Tina Kotek promised legislators she’d immediately lay off 600-700 transportation workers if they didn’t raise taxes in June. They didn’t and she didn’t. Now Kotek’s using the same bluff for the Aug 29 special session, expecting us to believe she means it this time.
Governor Tina Kotex employees, psychological trauma on state employees to get her way