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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...
SALEM (AP) — Proposed pay raises for legislators and other public officials drew complaints from Oregon residents at a hearing in Salem.
T urmoil in financial markets seeped into Oregon political campaigns Wednesday as candidates used a plunging stock market and government bailouts of giant financial firms to debate economic policy.
Hanten Day of Salem will remain in the running for an Oregon House seat from South Salem, even if a federal agency attempts to force him out of his state job next week.
The Campaign Disclosure Project gave Oregon a B+ grade in its fifth national report, after getting a B+ and the designation of "most improved" in last year's report. Washington has ranked first in each of the five studies. California placed second in the latest report and Michigan placed third.
A nonprofit group called Voices Set Free is inviting Lincoln County voters to take part in a forum from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday to talk about proposed legislation to fight crime in Oregon.
SALEM — Two of Oregon's best-known political names will square off about Measure 65, the Nov. 4 proposal for a top-two primary election, at the next luncheon of the Salem City Club.
Oregon voters get to decide how to reach and teach children with limited English this fall as the hot-button immigration issue makes it to a statewide ballot. Initiative promoter Bill Sizemore proposes scrapping bilingual education and English as a Second Language classes – now taught to one ...
Loren Parks, Oregon's biggest political contributor ever, added $500,000 this week to the campaign for Salem attorney Kevin Mannix's two crime-related measures on the Nov. 4 ballot. Parks has donated more than $1 million toward the measures so far.
GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin isn’t giving John McCain much oomph among Oregon voters, enabling Barack Obama to maintain his strong lead in the state presidential race, according to a new Portland Tribune/Fox 12 poll. Obama leads McCain 50-40 among registered voters, according to ...
Some folks around here think the economic sky is falling and state lawmakers in Sacramento and Salem are ignoring their constituents in the hinterlands. Guess the time is ripe to create a whole new state. That's the thinking up here along the border between...
