Ballots are secured in locked metal boxes at the Marion County Clerk’s Office in Salem on Monday, May 16. (Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle) Before any election results are announced Tuesday, many Oregon candidates will have already won their primary elections.  And a few have already won their general election, by[Read More…]

(Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Oregonians won’t get the chance to vote on whether to decriminalize sex work this year after backers of a ballot initiative ended their campaign Thursday. The proposed initiative would have made it legal to buy and sell sex in Oregon and would have treated sex work like[Read More…]

Those who want to be Oregon’s next governor say they will pay attention to rural areas and issues in the state. (Malheur Enterprise) Rural Oregon would get a lot more attention from Salem based on positions staked out by those running for governor. Every candidate running was invited to address[Read More…]

People march at an abortion rights rally in Riverfront Park on Tuesday, May 3 (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter) READ MORE: Hundreds march in Salem abortion rights rally Julia Cooley, 71, and Deb O’Connor, 51, attend an abortion rights rally in Riverfront Park on Tuesday, May 3 (Laura Tesler/Special to[Read More…]

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, Democrats from Oregon, seen at an earlier Portland event, reacted Tuesday, May 3, to news the U.S. Supreme Court may be overturning Roe v. Wade. (Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle) Oregon’s U.S. senators reacted with anger, sadness and resolution to the release[Read More…]

Hundreds of people marched down Court Street in Salem on Tuesday, May 3, for an abortion rights rally following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion which would overturn Roe v. Wade (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Julia Cooley used to attend abortion rights rallies in the 1960s, when bake sales[Read More…]

(Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) In recent years, Oregon has established itself as a haven for abortion rights, providing access at no cost to Oregonians and creating a fund for out-of-state patients who can’t obtain care in their own states. That could all change after the 2022 election. Monday night’s[Read More…]

Candidates for governor in the May 17 primary answered how they would increase the housing stock in Oregon. (Salem Reporter/file) Cutting red tape, reducing government fees and changing Oregon’s land use laws are among steps those running for governor in Oregon would take to increasing the supply of housing. Every[Read More…]

A Marion County ballot for the 2022 primary election (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Vast information about who gives money to people running for office and how those candidates spend the money is available for free online. But the state and federal websites that compile campaign finance information can be clunky and[Read More…]

More than 30 people are running for governor in Oregon and appear on the May 17 primary ballot. A media collaboration questioned them all. (Malheur Enterprise/File) Media outlets across Oregon are taking a novel approach to covering the 2022 governor’s race: They’re working together. The 2022 Oregon Media Collaboration on[Read More…]