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Capital Chatter: ‘Status quo’ election could spell bad news for Republicans (copy)
This is shaping up as a status-quo election year in Oregon. Here are five things to expect: 1.…
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Capital Chatter: Kotek starts addressing school funding with summer school bill
Last December, on Gov. Tina Kotek’s One Oregon Listening Tour in Gladstone, I asked her about funding public…
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Capital Chatter: On Ozzie Rose, the peoples’ lobbyist
“Traditionally lobbyists have been cast as villains in apocryphal tales of governmental scandal or legislative indiscretion. Veteran legislators…
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Capital Chatter: Oregonians still know little about Kotek spouse situation
Almost two weeks late, Gov. Tina Kotek finally held a public press conference and took questions about the…
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Capital Chatter: Not a first for First Spouse questions
There is deep irony in the political and ethical contretemps surrounding Aimee Kotek Wilson and her wife, Gov.…
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Guest column: With threats mounting, investments in elections infrastructure are vital to Oregon
Every year, millions of Americans celebrate the luck of the Irish. Americans spent a record $6.9 billion in…
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Capital Chatter: Lawmakers have a lot to say about the 2024 session
The turkeys have left the Oregon State Capitol. Well, one at least. Driving around the Capitol on Thursday…
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Capital Chatter: Measure 110 reforms for naught without accountability — even for us
No one knew about my adolescent attempt at suicide. Not my family. Not my friends. Not for decades.…
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Capital Chatter: “Oregon will be better for it”
Filtering into the Oregon House chamber, noises from the ongoing State Capitol reconstruction project briefly delayed Thursday’s debate…