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3 days ago · From eastern Oregon to the coast, new efforts spring up to combat drug addiction. Oregon Capital Chronicle focuses on deep and useful reporting on Oregon state government, politics and policy. We help readers understand how those in government are using their power, what’s happening to taxpayer dollars, and how citizens can stake a bigger ...
Oregon likely faces battle with next Trump administration
2 days ago · Rayfield seems likely to ask the Oregon Legislature in coming weeks for more money to do battle with the Trump administration. And he’s likely to get it. That would mirror most of the blue state attorneys general. Washington state, for example, situated much like Oregon, also has just elected a new AG with the incumbent, Bob Ferguson, a ...
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4 days ago · Gov. Kotek vows to ‘protect Oregon values’ as state stockpiles abortion drug. BY: Julia Shumway - November 18, 2024. BEAVERTON — Oregon has added to its emergency supply of the abortion drug mifepristone, Gov. Tina Kotek announced Monday, but most of the state’s plans to respond to a second Trump administration are still up in the air.
Oregon commission approves redo of landmark climate program …
3 days ago · Oregon’s keystone plan to regulate fossil fuel companies and reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution will be reinstated in early 2025 after being derailed for nearly a year by a gas industry lawsuit. The Environmental Quality Commission, which oversees the Department of Environmental ...
Oregon Democrats have 34-vote edge in quest for House …
Nov 15, 2024 · By: Julia Shumway - November 15, 2024 11:33 am. Democrat Lesly Muñoz, left, now leads Republican incumbent Tracy Cramer by a single vote. (Campaign photos) Oregon Democrats’ ability to fully enact their legislative agenda and pass a transportation funding package next year may come down to a single state House district, now divided by just ...
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Nov 14, 2024 · BY: Alex Baumhardt - November 6, 2024. Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle stepped into a divided Congress and big shoes in 2022, when she was elected to her first term to represent Oregon’s 4th District. “I started working in a district that had Peter DeFazio for 36 years, and he did an amazing job,” Hoyle told the Capital Chronicle ...
Oregon election results follow usual pattern
Nov 5, 2024 · A supporter listens to speeches at the Oregon Democratic Party’s election night event at the Portland Hilton on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Rian Dundon/Oregon Capital Chronicle) Oregon had few surprises in the general election results that changed the political landscape very little. Tracking closely with similar kinds of results in Washington ...
Dozens of Oregon candidates will coast to victory in unopposed …
Nov 5, 2024 · While many Oregon candidates will spend election night and the following days tensely watching for ballot returns that will spell victory or defeat, dozens of others are already assured of victory. More than a quarter of the 60-member state House and three state Senate candidates are unopposed ...
Election of Portland’s next mayor has statewide implications
October 24, 2024 5:30 am. Keith Wilson is a wild card in Portland's mayoral election because ranked choice voting could elevate him to the top. (Oregon Department of Transportation/Flickr) Rarely do cities or other governments go through such a big organizational change, while at the same bringing in mostly new leadership, as Portland is doing ...
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Nov 5, 2024 · BY: Kelly Campbell - October 29, 2024. A decade ago, NuScale, the Oregon-based small modular nuclear company born at Oregon State University, was on a roll. Promising a new era of nuclear reactors that were cheaper, easier to build and safer, their Star Wars-inspired artist renditions of a yet to be built reactor gleamed like a magic bullet.