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 national effort includes court cases in Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota. -
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. -
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. -
Morgan, a Republican from Grants Pass, has served in the Legislature since 2021. -
A third of Oregon’s county clerks have left their jobs during the past few years. -
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. -
After two failed runs for Congress, former Army National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos is running for the state House from southern Oregon. -
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. -
One of the Republicans who filed a complaint, Sen. Lynn Findley, called the Senate president a “dictator” and called the committee process a “sham.” -
Meetings will give a preview of some of the big issues facing the Legislature next year. -
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is suing Fox Corporation, alleging that false claims about the 2020 election broadcast on Fox News caused losses to the state’s employee retirement funds. -
One of Oregon’s two Republican congressional representatives supports a just-announced impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The other is keeping her distance.
