Earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read, and Dag Robinson, president of the Oregon Association of County Clerks (OACC), held a virtual town hall to talk election integrity and process. The fact that they felt compelled to even have a town hall on the subject says a lot about the times we live in.
This week marks 39 years since Edith Green’s passing. Few younger Oregonians likely have heard of her, but many owe their careers at least in part to the grit and determination of a woman who served Oregon for 20 years in the United States Congress.
Not all candidates running under the “R” or “D” label are genetically the same. On the national level, the MAGA faction has displaced the traditional Republican hierarchy while the far left, characterized by the socialist faction, is attempting to do the same within the Democratic Party.
Public employee unions are among those demanding legislators disconnect from the tax provisions of the federal legislation when it comes to assessing state income taxes on Oregonians. Doing so will help decrease the deficit now facing legislators as they try and save key programs and services from further reductions.
Christine Drazan, the Republican nominee in 2022, has been considered the front-runner for a cage-match rematch with incumbent Governor Tina Kotek, but a couple of other D’s may soon be added to the card — specifically, Diehl and Dudley.
Bridging the political divide in Oregon has become increasingly challenging in recent years. The task isn’t going to get any easier when the cost of the I-5 bridge balloons into the ozone.
Joe Brown’s Carmel Corn is a Portland icon. It has been there since the beginning when Lloyd Center first opened its doors in 1960. Generations of Oregonians have succumbed to the allure of that sweet aroma wafting through the mall.
Performing a feat rarely accomplished in modern Oregon electoral history, opponents of the legislature’s high-profile transportation tax bill have successfully used primarily volunteers to gather the necessary signatures to refer the action to the voters. What will Democrats do next?
Coordinated care organizations (CCOs) are valiantly working to ensure health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of Oregonians while facing headwinds of reduced federal funding, increased delivery costs, and the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), which keeps them so awash in expensive bureaucracy and new polices that will increase costs further.
On Monday, Christine Drazan announced she will once again be a candidate for governor in the upcoming election. Drazan fared well in her last run in 2022 before losing to Tina Kotek.
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