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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Making it easier to annex land and increasing options for middle-income Oregonians are top priorities. -
The Oregon Supreme Court will defer to the U.S. Supreme Court and won’t hear a court case challenging former President Donald Trump’s ability to appear on Oregon ballots.
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Court battles and big congressional races set the stage for an intense election year.
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The state housing agency still can’t reliably say how many Oregonians were helped, the report found.
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Oregon lawmakers jetted off to Taiwan, Portugal, Denmark and tech hubs in California this fall, all paid for by companies and groups that have a keen interest in the laws they’ll pass.
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A federal judge late on Wednesday rejected a request to restore to the ballot three Republican senators who are barred from running for reelection because they participated in a six-week walkout.
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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.
