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Capital Chatter: How to engage the Legislature — and how the Legislature should engage itself
Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Portland, outraged Republicans last year by publicly stating the obvious after Democrats won supermajorities in ... Read more
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Capital Chatter: Oregon celebrates the legacy of Peter Courtney
Peter Courtney was a lifelong prankster. As a new law clerk working in the Oregon Supreme Court Building, ... Read more
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Capital Chatter: Governing begins with inauguration, pledges of accountability
“The devil,” the sages have said, “is in the details.” Or, in a newer version of the idiom, ... Read more
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Capital Chatter: Curtain rises on 2025 Legislature
The 2025 Oregon Legislature got off to a glorious start this week, full of promise for collaboration, productivity ... Read more
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Capital Chatter: A plea for kindness across the divide
This is not the column I planned to write, the one for which I interviewed legislators this week. ... Read more
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Capital Chatter: 2025 is off to a chatty start
To whet your political appetite for 2025, here is a spicy goulash of quotations, anecdotes and other recent ... Read more
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Capital Chatter: A journalism inspiration and Myrtle’s memorial
In a small but very personal way, Elmer C. Fricke changed the course of Oregon journalism. This is ... Read more
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Capital Chatter: In Oregon Senate, new faces from different places
Eastern and Central Oregon are losing much of their influence in the state Senate. Among the senators exiting ... Read more