(Salem, OR) – Several new consumer protection laws take effect immediately when the clock strikes midnight on Jan. 1, 2026. The Division of Financial Regulation (DFR), part of the Oregon Department of…
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NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: New Year News
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 12/29/2025 Dear Friends and Neighbors, It is New Year Week, and the great gray whale migration is back on the Oregon coast. The massive migration of eastern…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: The Most Dangerous Question In The Room
Why Universal Healthcare without Cost Controls Won’t Fix Anything EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege.” Oregon legislator and local…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: An ICE Breakthrough
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 12/22/2025 Dear Friends and Neighbors, Earlier this year, the Oregon Department of Justice joined Lincoln County and the Fisherman’s Wives in a lawsuit asserting that…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: “A comprehensive freaking uproar.”
By State Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 12/5/2025 Dear Friends and Neighbors, “A comprehensive freaking uproar.” That’s how the response to the loss of our rescue helicopter and the possibility of…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: Obamacare Was A Tourniquet; It Stopped The Bleeding, But It Was Never The Cure
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege.” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: The Infantorium Was Weird; Our Healthcare System Is Even Weirder
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege.” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: A Win for the Helicopter – Maybe
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 12/8/25 Dear Friends and Neighbors, I received the news in a phone call from Senator Jeff Merkley on Thursday afternoon. The U.S. Coast Guard has…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: How a 50-Cent Hospital Plan Became a Modern Headache
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege.” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: Fires and ICE
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 12/1/2025 Dear Friends and Neighbors, A few months ago, I was pleased to host Attorney General Dan Rayfield for a Town Hall here at the…
