OP-ED from North Plains voters, Danny Voils and Connie Baron Reject Expansion-Aligned Candidates in North Plains! In 2024, I was ...

Faces Of The City - Sharing the journeys of Hillsboro neighbors who turn bold ambition into purpose, revealing how everyday ...

Get informed for the upcoming election! The Hillsboro City Council Candidates Forum will be on Thursday, October 8, at Brookwood Library from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. The program will be recorded for future ...

The Real Story – A Column With Opinions Based On My Experiences -The Hundred-Million-Dollar Tax Shield (Part 1 of 4) Something is wrong in our community, and many of us know it. Across Washington ...

On Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 6:00 PM, the Hillsboro City Council will convene at the Civic Center for the first reading of Ordinance No. 6521 (Case File No. CDCA-004-26). This new Data Center / ...

Now, as ballots arrive in voters’ mailboxes for the November 2026 election, the entire architecture converges on a single objective: Maintaining political control over the seats that approve the codes ...

The Hillsboro Herald receives communications from community groups and candidates during election cycles. The Herald is posting this information, which was sent to us by Friends of Smart Growth for ...

The sanitized press release hit the wires on Monday, September 21, 2026. Packed with bureaucratic euphemisms and Orwellian praise, Washington County announced that Board Chair Kathryn Harrington was ...

Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a 4-part investigative series examining municipal tax abatements, local agreements, and campaign finance networks across Hillsboro and Washington County. Read Part 1: ...

Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 of a 4-part investigative series examining municipal tax abatements, corporate lobbying contracts, and campaign finance networks across Hillsboro and Washington County.