In the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan pushed for offshore oil, Oregon pushed back. Reagan’s oil agenda inspired the state to create new policy to protect its shores.

Ronald Reagan on a visit to Portland on June 2, 1990. (The Oregonian file photo) REAGAN: THE LIFE H. W. Brands Doubleday, $35 816 pages By RICHARD W. ETULAIN/Special to The Oregonian Historian ...

WASHINGTON -- We are deluged with Ronald Reagan celebrations and retrospectives, but most are misleading. They omit Reagan's singular domestic achievement and the wellspring of his popularity: the ...

A 15-year-old policy advocate argues Oregon could realize its potential by updating codes and eliminating red tape in this OP ...

In this Oct. 19, 1983 file photo, President Ronald Reagan speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington. (The Associated Press) By Rich Lowry If there's anything we thought we ...

George Will By George Will WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump is just one symptom of today's cultural pathology of self-validating vehemence with blustery certitudes substituting for evidence. Another is ...

Our weekly congressional roundup includes Sen. Ron Wyden on tax breaks for overseas profits, Reps. Greg Walden and Suzanne Bonamici on the House-passed federal budget proposal and Rep. Peter ...

Ronald Reagan gave a nationally televised speech on October 27, 1964, that launched his electoral career. Fifty years later, that speech for presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, called "A Time ...

Ronald Reagan was campaigning in Utah in 1980 when he offered an unusual pitch to the state's voters: "Count me in as a rebel." A weird argument for a candidate for the presidency, but in that ...

At the news kiosks here, Reagan gazes out from the covers of the conservative magazine Human Events and the business magazine Bloomberg Insider – although that magazine covers his portrait with ...

Mrs. Reagan died Sunday at her home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. She was 94. She was Ronald Reagan's closest adviser and fierce protector throughout his ...