4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (508+ words) Citizenship is a familiar word. What Americans expect from it, what self-government requires of the people living under it, and how those responsibilities have evolved across nearly 250 years of American democracy are considerably larger questions. Those questions will come to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (990+ words) “Lower Taxes” is an extraordinarily powerful political promise. It requires two words on a campaign sign, appeals immediately to households struggling with rising expenses and suggests something every taxpayer understands: elect this candidate and government will take less of your…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (370+ words) Oregon’s statewide election town hall series will continue Tuesday evening in Gresham, bringing the second public forum in Secretary of State Tobias Read’s Oregon Votes Town Hall series to the Portland metropolitan area as preparations continue for the November general…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (439+ words) Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read is pledging to fight any federal postal changes that could interfere with eligible Oregonians casting ballots by mail, following the emergence of a whistleblower account alleging that the U.S. Postal Service is moving toward implementation…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (626+ words) On Wednesday morning, September 2nd, Circuit Court Judge Laurie Norman rejected Baertschiger’s petition to amend the ballot title language, for many of the same reasons as we stated in this column last week. It appeared to be a quick and easy…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1192+ words) Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read is expanding voter outreach ahead of the November 3 general election with a series of Oregon Votes Town Halls scheduled during September and October, placing election administration and voter information before the public as Oregon…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (359+ words) If there’s one thing that City and County elected officials and former elected officials like to brag about or pretend to brag about in Josephine County, it’s their supposed support for local public safety or local law enforcement. But as…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (779+ words) Grants Pass Tribune Get the latest FREE edition of Grants Pass Tribune. Oregon Election Calendar Reaches Critical Week as Candidate Withdrawal Deadline Nears Oregon’s 2026 election calendar enters an important stage this week as candidates, political parties and election officials approach…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (509+ words) A newly filed constitutional initiative has entered Oregon’s political system more than three years before voters could potentially decide its fate, beginning a lengthy qualification process that could eventually place another proposed change to the Oregon Constitution before the statewide…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (853+ words) Hunting a deer in the Cascades, casting for salmon on an Oregon river, raising cattle east of the mountains and producing crops in the Rogue, Umpqua and Willamette valleys are activities governed by very different sets of state law. A…...