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To some voters, the race for Multnomah County district attorney this May is a referendum on state and local policies, while others see a backlash to the national reform prosecutor movement ..read more
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Emails show the governor plans to send Ivan Gall for state Senate confirmation May 29 ..read more
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The race shows no sign of the massive spending voters saw 12 years ago — that will likely wait until the general election in November. But the three candidates do offer meaningful differences in how they’d like to do the job of Oregon’s top lawyer ..read more
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We hear from Mike Erickson and David Russ, two candidates competing in the Republican primary for Oregon's 6th Congressional District ..read more
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s proposed $8 billion budget – a $1 billion increase from the current budget – relies heavily on revenue collected through the Portland Clean Energy Fund, the voter-approved tax on large retailers meant to fund renewable energy projects and address the effects of climate change in communities of color ..read more
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Both Tobias Read and James Manning say their primary goal is to restore trust to an office that oversees elections, audits state agencies, sits on the state’s land use board and, in rare cases, would take over as governor ..read more
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Oregon's 3rd Congressional District, rooted in Portland, has become a magnet for "independent expenditures" this year ..read more
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Voters’ decisions on ballot measures in the May 21 primary could have big impacts on the structure and function of Josephine and Jackson county governments ..read more
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The new rules allow people experiencing homelessness to camp on public property if no shelter beds are available, which is often the case in Multnomah County. But the rules limit what people can do while camping ..read more
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Civil rights groups and Democratic lawmakers are concerned about a push by some House Republicans to include a citizenship question on the once-a-decade census ..read more