Oregon Appeals Court rules Salinas didn’t break law with anti-Erickson ad
The case dates back to U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas’ 2022 campaign against Republican Mike Erickson.
Julia Shumway - Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon cities push for infrastructure funding, more leeway to remove homeless camps
Proposed bills would bolster funding for infrastructure, tweak homeless camp controls and allow hotel tax investment in basic services.
Oregon lawmaker targets surprise fees after ballgame gets expensive
Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, was frustrated with undisclosed fees that cost more than his ticket to a minor league baseball game.
Oregon joins lawsuit over Trump plan to end birthright citizenship
Oregon joins other states in legal action over the Trump administration's to end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Complaint alleges Oregon GOP congressional candidate Mike Erickson withheld financial information
The head of a campaign finance watchdog group called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Oregon Republican congressional nominee Mike Erickson, saying his financial disclosure reports are among “the most egregious cases of intentional withholding of information” the group has ever seen.
Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer criticized infrastructure law, now lauds it
As a candidate in 2022, Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer said the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law was “not a benefit” and would see “pennies on the dollar” returned to communities.
But as the U.S. representative of Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, Chavez-DeRemer has praised the law and some of the more than $5.2 billion in Oregon-specific investments that have been announced in the past two years.
U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Oregon lawsuit that sought to end mail voting
On the eve of Oregon’s primary election, a group of Republican candidates and election deniers learned they won’t get to make their case to the U.S. Supreme Court to end Oregon’s mail voting system.
The high court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from plaintiffs, including state Sen. Dennis Linthicum, the leading Republican candidate for secretary of state, in a case that sought to overturn the method Oregon voters have used to vote in every election for decades.
Oregon House Republican leader used minor ballot delivery delay to question election integrity
Oregon’s House Republican leader sent state election officials scrambling this week after he used a minor delay in delivering mailed ballots to clerks in two counties to raise doubts about the integrity of the state’s voting system.
Biden alone in Oregon voters’ pamphlet after Trump declined to submit statement
Oregon voters will see a big name missing when they open their state-issued voters’ pamphlet next month: Republican Donald Trump.
While Oregon lawmakers debated campaign finance limits, Phil Knight gave $2 million to Republican PAC
While lawmakers debated campaign finance limits last month, Oregon’s richest man quietly gave another $2 million to a political action committee that tries to elect Republicans to the statehouse.