Julia Shumway
Oregon Capital ChronicleJulia Shumway has reported on government and politics in Iowa and Nebraska, spent time at the Bend Bulletin and was a legislative reporter for the Arizona Capitol Times in Phoenix. Julia is an award-winning journalist who reported on the tangled efforts to audit the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona.
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The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries this fall settled a lawsuit from a second former employee who alleged racial hostility under then-commissioner and current U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle.
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A bipartisan pair of Oregon state senators will try again to give retired veterans an income tax break after running out of time in the most recent legislative session.
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Oregon’s top elected officials pledged to spend millions of dollars on winter road maintenance after dire warnings from the state Department of Transportation that highways would go unplowed because of a budget shortfall.
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The national effort includes court cases in Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota.
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As the Portland teachers’ strike continues into its third week, a trio of Republican lawmakers plan to introduce a bill banning Oregon teachers from striking.
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The FBI is investigating a piece of suspicious mail that caused the elections office in Oregon’s fourth-largest county to shut down the day after Tuesday’s local election.
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Morgan, a Republican from Grants Pass, has served in the Legislature since 2021.
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A third of Oregon’s county clerks have left their jobs during the past few years.
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The federal lawsuit joins an ongoing state case from Republican senators who want to run for reelection despite a voter-approved amendment to the state constitution.
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After two failed runs for Congress, former Army National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos is running for the state House from southern Oregon.
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Oregon’s second largest natural gas utility won’t be able to charge customers to pay for its political and lobbying activities and will have to decrease its proposed 2024 rate increase under a settlement agreement approved Thursday by the Oregon Public Utility Commission.
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One of the Republicans who filed a complaint, Sen. Lynn Findley, called the Senate president a “dictator” and called the committee process a “sham.”