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Measures that will appear on Oregon's Nov. 4 general election ballot. The first eight are citizen initiatives, and the remaining four were referred to the ballot by the Legislature.
Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish on Thursday named the head of a nonprofit community development network in Portland to be his chief of staff, effective Aug. 1. Sam Chase serves as executive director of the Oregon Opportunity Network, an association of nonprofit community development ...
Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith's campaign is filing complaints with the Federal Election Commission charging that Democrat Jeff Merkley and the state Democratic party are trying to circumvent federal law to give Merkley more money for advertising.
Oregon's domestic-partnership law comes under the legal spotlight again this week, with opposite sides squaring off in front of a three-judge...
PORTLAND (AP) — A union-backed group says signature-gathering efforts for nine of the 10 measures slated for the November ballot were riddled with fraud and forgery.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A group is collecting signatures to get an initiative put on the ballot in 2010 that would allow the state of Oregon to sell marijuana in stores like they do cigarettes.
Pending federal legislation that would use Social Security records for immigration enforcement would have damaging effects to Oregon’s economy, a new study commissioned by the Coalition for a Working Oregon has found. The study, released Wednesday, sought to evaluate the impact of the ...
PORTLAND — Oregon’s domestic partnership law came under legal fire again Tuesday, as opponents tried to persuade three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that elections officials had wrongly disqualified the issue from the November ballot.
Two Jackson County women vying to become delegates for Sen. John McCain's presidential nomination could find themselves surrounded by Ron Paul supporters Saturday at Republican conventions being held throughout Oregon.
PORTLAND — Oregon's new domestic-partnership law could stand, or it could be back in the hands of a lower federal court, depending on how three federal appeals judges weigh arguments they heard Tuesday.
PORTLAND — Oregon charter schools activist Rob Kremer has impeccable conservative bona fides.
