Category Government

Senate Republicans return from their June walkout. (Claire Withycombe/Oregon Capital Bureau) SALEM — More than two months after voting to fine protesting Republican senators $500 per day for walking off the job, Senate Democrat leaders announced Friday they will not make good on the threat.…

Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton, walking off the Senate floor. (Aubrey Wieber/Salem Reporter) Longtime Beaverton state legislator Mark Hass has been informing local Democrats that he won’t run for reelection to his Oregon Senate seat, he confirmed Thursday, Aug. 22. Hass, who was appointed to the…

Jackson Stalley, a library technician at Western Oregon University, is the chief steward of the sublocal union of university workers. Those workers could strike in September. (Claire Withycombe / Oregon Capital Bureau) MONMOUTH — Sitting in a conference room at the Hamersly Library this week,…

Gov. Kate Brown speaks at a rally promoting carbon capping legislation. For more than a year, Gov. Kate Brown’s environmental agency has been assessing how the governor could mandate lower greenhouse gas emissions without voter or legislative approval, according to interviews and public records. Brown…

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum took the lead on a multi-state legal challenge to a Trump administration rule change to strictly regulate Title X funds. In September, her solicitor general will argue for a stay on the rule while the legal battle continues. (Pamplin Media Group…

SALEM — A move by the federal government to restrict most legal immigration to those who can afford health care, housing and food on their own is sowing worry among Oregon immigrants, even those who will not be impacted by the rule, advocates say. “We…

SALEM — The Independent Party of Oregon is preparing for a return to the minor leagues. In 2015, the party became the state’s third major political party, having accrued the needed share of registered voters to qualify. But a massive wave of new voters registered…