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Jefferson County Commission to discuss topic at 10 a.m. Wendesday, Feb. 17 meeting Wednesday, Feb. 17, Jefferson County Commissioners will discuss the possibility of moving the county into Idaho along with most of rural Oregon east of the Cascades and south of Eugene. "The county commissioners did not come up with this idea," says Kelly Simmelink, chair of the Jefferson County Commission. In fact, voters in Union and Jefferson counties voted in November to require their county commissions hold meetings twice a year, three times a year in Union county, to discuss the possibility of mergin...

Dave Creaney/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Texas state Rep. Kyle Biedermann, a Republican, says he will introduce the bill for a referendum as early as this week on whether Texas should assert its independence from the United States. The notion, which has been batted around Texas for generations, looms much larger now in the wake of the violence in the U.S. capital. While baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election have sowed discord in the country, advocates of a "Texit" insist the effort is not about Trump. "It's being dismissed as a fringe phenomena, until the...

'Greater Idaho' campaign succeeded in 2 of 4 counties last month LAKE COUNTY, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Lake County has joined other Eastern Oregon counties where petitions are being circulated to put a measure on the next ballot that would direct county officials to meet and discuss the prospect of becoming part of the state of Idaho. Or, as its supporters call it: "Greater Idaho." Move Oregon’s Border President Mike McCarter of La Pine spoke with NewsChannel 21 on Monday, giving an update on the effort. specifically where the effort stands with the addition of the Lake County effort. “Four counti...

LAKE COUNTY - Another county in Oregon is about to begin collecting signatures for the 'Move Oregon's Border For a Greater Idaho' initiative. On December 11, Lake County Clerk Stacie Geaney cleared the campaign to begin collecting signatures in Lake County. Oregon counties generally allow collection of signatures as long as 24 months, but Move Oregon’s Border hopes to meet the February 17 deadline to put their initiative on the May 2021 local election ballot. The initiative has been posted on the group’s website, greateridaho.org. In November, four counties in Oregon voted on the idea of ...