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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State ethics watchdogs have launched a full investigation into former Secretary of State Shemia Fagan’s conduct while in office, including her $10,000-per-month consulting gig for marijuana entrepreneurs and whether she accurately reported her income and expenses to the state. -
Less than two weeks into her term, new Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade has become a target of a national campaign to keep former President Donald Trump from appearing on ballots in 2024. -
The Oregon Housing Stability Council has approved spending more than $100 million to build nearly 650 affordable homes in urban and rural areas throughout the state. -
A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit intended to end mail voting and electronic voting tabulation in Oregon, saying “generalized grievances” about the state’s elections aren’t enough to give a group of unsuccessful Republican candidates and other election deniers standing to sue. -
Reports of racial, ethnic and anti-LGBTQ bias increased again in 2022, a new report from Oregon’s Criminal Justice Commission showed. -
Former Portland auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade took office as Oregon’s secretary of state on Friday, pledging to spend the next 18 months restoring trust shaken by her predecessor’s unethical behavior.. -
Oregon’s leading anti-abortion political advocacy organization and a small group of Lane County Republicans gathered on the banks of the Dexter Reservoir on Wednesday, vowing to do everything they could to make sure the area’s first-term Republican state representative loses his job in 2024. -
Voters would decide in 2024 whether Oregon lawmakers should have the same impeachment powers as legislators in all other states. -
The abortion and gender-affirming care bill that nearly torpedoed the Oregon legislative session is headed to Gov. Tina Kotek after a final intense debate on the House floor. -
Republicans said they wanted the committee to hold government agencies accountable. -
Oregon has spent nearly $125 million since 2020 to turn vacant hotels and motels into shelters through the Project Turnkey program, adding more than 900 beds. -
At least two Republican political consultants have filed campaign finance complaints against a liberal political action committee running radio ads asking Oregonians to tell their Republican senators to return to work.
