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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyPay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.It’s not often that a member of Congress faces backlash for a drug deal gone bad.In this case, the alleged deal doesn’t involve illicit substances changing hands. Rather, it concerns an alleged exchange of money and sway between now-Rep. Val Hoyle (D-OR) and the cofounders of a cannabis company called La Mota, one of

<strong>Before this summer, the penalty for distributing fentanyl testing strips — which can help people determine whether other drugs are contaminated with it — was higher than the penalty for carrying most illegal drugs. A new law does away with that discrepancy.</strong>

COVID-19 shook nearly every industry to its core, but never more so than for commercial office space. Before the pandemic, downtown office space across the United States favored...

New York Times Opinion Columnist Considers Run for Oregon Governor Intelligencer 6 hrs ago Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is considering a gubernatorial run in Oregon in 2022. “I have friends trying to convince me that here in Oregon, we need new leadership from outside the broken political system,” the two-time Pulitzer-winner told the alt-weekly outside Portland. “I’m honestly interested in what my fellow Oregonians have to say about that.” If Kristof decides to run, he will be competing in a Democratic primary to succeed Governor Kate Brown, who has been term-limited. What h...