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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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. -
School funding, educator pay increases and early reading investments are on pause with Senate Republicans in week three of their walkout. -
Oregonians have until 8 p.m. Tuesday to return their ballots for the May election. -
A heat wave will bring temperatures in the 90s to the Willamette Valley and other parts of the state later this week -
One Republican senator filed a pair of workplace complaints Monday over denied requests to be excused from the Senate as a GOP walkout entered its sixth day. -
Fagan has weathered other storms and was widely expected to run for governor or Congress, but moonlighting proved too much
