Julia Shumway - Oregon Capital Chronicle
Julia Shumway is editor of Oregon Capital Chronicle and has reported on government and politics in Iowa and Nebraska, spent time at the Bend Bulletin and most recently was a legislative reporter for the Arizona Capitol Times in Phoenix. An award-winning journalist, Julia most recently reported on the tangled efforts to audit the presidential results in Arizona.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown commutes 17 death sentences, ending death row
Brown has made clemency a main focus of her governorship, issuing pardons or commutations for nearly 50,000 people.
Kotek announces 36-county listening tour, framework for first year as governor
Gov.-elect Tina Kotek said housing, mental health, addiction and schools will lead her priority list.
Senate bids farewell to Peter Courtney, longest-serving president in Oregon history
Courtney urged his colleagues to care for each other as he ended his 20-year career as Senate president.
Attorney says Erickson isn’t trying to overturn Salinas’s election as lawsuit continues
Republican Mike Erickson sued Democrat Andrea Salinas under a state law that would allow a judge to prevent Salinas from taking office.
Three of four Oregon legislative caucuses select leaders
Sen. Rob Wagner, D-Lake Oswego, will be the Senate’s first new president in 20 years.
Oregon gun group sues over gun-control law as sheriffs vow not to enforce it
Measure 114 is set to take effect on Dec. 8.
Oregon Democrats skeptical of claims Schrader would have won 5th Congressional District
After Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer flipped the district, Schrader and national pundits argued Democrats erred by nominating a progressive.
Oregon economists expect a ‘mild’ recession beginning in 2023
Higher-than-anticipated tax revenue will also mean more money returned to taxpayers in 2024.
State Rep. Andrea Salinas, a Democrat, wins in Oregon’s 6th Congressional District
Salinas edged out Republican supply-chain executive Mike Erickson.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer wins Oregon’s 5th Congressional District seat
On Sunday, the Associated Press announced that the former mayor of Happy Valley had won the race against Democrat Jamie-McLeod-Skinner, an attorney and regional emergency manager from central Oregon.