Alex Baumhardt
Oregon Capital ChronicleAlex Baumhardt is a JPR content partner from the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Before that Alex was a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and from Minnesota and Oregon for The Washington Post.
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A bill meant to create clarity about what public officials can call and text about outside of public meetings is creating more confusion, press advocates said. -
Two Republican state representatives missed roughly half of the 183 floor votes House members took at the Capitol in Salem. -
At a news conference Friday, Sen. Ron Wyden and Secretary of State Tobias Read said they would defend mail-in voting and the state’s election integrity. -
A bill to provide technical fixes to the state’s 2024 campaign finance law instead renders political spending limits moot, critics say. -
Oregon’s budget writers warned that the state’s current $128 million deficit will worsen in the years ahead due to federal changes. -
Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1507 to help the state preserve $291 million in tax revenue during the next 18 months -
Nearly 30,000 K-12 students attended a summer learning program in 2025, and many showed learning gains and credit recovery towards graduation. -
Groups said a bill meant to provide technical tweaks to a 2024 campaign finance reform law is now full of changes that render contribution limits moot. -
Oregon lawmakers forced by the threat of a citizen-led ballot measure to adopt a sweeping law limiting campaign contributions in 2024 are once again trying to delay key portions of the law before it takes effect. -
Ashland Sen. Jeff Golden is trying again to get the Legislature to create a fund to pay for natural disasters with damages collected from big oil. -
Lawmakers will consider more than 250 bills in a five-week session meant to balance the state’s budget and tackle urgent issues -
The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Golden, D-Ashland, comes at a time of rising property insurance premiums and policy cancellations or non-renewals across the country and much of the West.
