I love the fall: the excitement of kids returning to a new year of school, the crisp cool days and the autumn colors of the tree, the universal feeling of gratitude that prevails despite any number of difficult circumstances.

This Thanksgiving... Read More »

The City of Portland’s Office for Community Technology (OCT) is once again a standalone city bureau. While this change may seem like little more than inside baseball, it represents an important and long overdue update of the City’s governance structure. Above... Read More »

Whenever I file a final brief in a litigated case—or when the process otherwise ends—I am immediately eager to read the final decision from the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) to discern whether we at CUB won on our issues. Unfortunately,... Read More »

Shelley Batty has a passion for bicycling and rural Oregon. She was raised on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Eastern Oregon where she grew to love the rural landscape and way of life. As an adult in rural Clackamas County,... Read More »

The 8th annual CUB Policy Conference, Destination: Decarbonization, took place on Friday, October 19, providing a dedicated forum for professionals from across the energy sector to discuss decarbonization efforts currently underway, and what needs to be accomplished going forward, in... Read More »

During the waning few days of 2017, NW Natural Gas Company (NW Natural, or NWN) filed a general rate case, requesting an overall increase of 8.3 percent which represented a $40.4 million overall rate hike to its Oregon customers. Fast... Read More »