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The Oregon School Employees Association has added another $500,000 to the coalition opposing most of the statewide measures on the Nov. 4 ballot, the coalition reported late Monday. That means total contributions to the Defend Oregon coalition have nearly...
PORTLAND -- What is the best method to teach English to non-native speakers? That question is at the heart of growing debate over Ballot Measure 58 , the so-called bilingual education ban, which appears on Oregon’s November ballot.
Even in a crowded election year, you'd think there would be a little more heat over a seat at the center of citizen initiatives and voter rights. But Kate Brown, a veteran Democratic legislator and Rick Dancer, a former television...
BEAVERTON, Ore. -- A poster at a high school featuring presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain was removed after it was defaced with a racial epithet.
The Independent Party has endorsed Democratic Sen. Kate Brown for secretary of state. The party, Oregon's third largest with 27,000 registered voters, applauded her willingness to put a referral on the ballot asking voters to limit campaign contributions. Such a...
Two years ago, Oregon’s political establishment tied itself in knots when lawyer Dan Meek put Measures 46 and 47 on the ballot — one of which called for a constitutional change to allow limiting campaign contributions, the other prescribing what those limits should be. The constitutional change (46) did not pass and Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, [...]
BOISE – A new political commercial targeting Idaho Senate candidate Jim Risch isn’t from any of his four opponents – it’s from a national group that's also run lots of ads against Oregon GOP Sen. Gordon Smith.
It didn't take much to get 18-year-old University of Oregon freshman Alex Alejandro to register for the Nov. 4 presidential election.
Within days of being named the vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, every media outlet was reporting that Sarah Palin had gone back to work just three days after her son was born. It wasn’t until several days later that there was even a mention that her husband had taken a leave. And it still wasn’t clear whether the leave was because of the baby or if he was on leave because ...
If you think you've seen a lot of campaign ads so far, get ready for a lot more. The Oregon Education Association has donated another $2.1 million to the coalition opposing most of the ballot measures on the Nov....
An advocacy group ranks California, Connecticut and Oregon at the top of a list of states improving energy efficiency to respond to high prices, energy security and global warming.
