2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (164+ words) Three of the six incumbents seeking reelection to the Portland City Council this November have each logged more than 1,600 campaign contributions through the city’s elections program—nearly 750 more than their centrist colleagues running for reelection. All three incumbents who broke…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (219+ words) I enjoyed reading about your visit to the strip club where former U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer supposedly took a lunch break to celebrate sex workers. Did the feds ever explain what she was doing in there? Or is this…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (265+ words) As a presidential order targeting mail-in voting plays out in the courts, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read made an extraordinary recommendation Sept. 8: Voters should submit their ballots at authorized drop boxes this midterm election rather than using the mail....

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (678+ words) This spring, President Donald Trump targeted mail voting with an executive order, setting off a legal battle that’s raged with increasing intensity and remains unsettled two months out from the midterm election. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani has so far…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (318+ words) A federal judge on Thursday effectively eliminated any remaining chance that an initiative seeking to hire more police officers with Portland climate tax dollars could appear on the November ballot. U.S. District Judge Michael Simon rejected a lawsuit from the initiative’s…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (231+ words) “There’s a lot to work with,” she says. “It just all came together.” The judges were not amused. Greenstreet will not receive her final scorecard until she picks up her decorations at the end of the fair, but the feedback…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (469+ words) A federal court on Thursday issued an order blocking key provisions of Donald Trump’s efforts to use the U.S. Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting, siding with a coalition of voting rights groups and blue-state officials including Oregon Attorney General…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (389+ words) In what’s been a whirlwind week in state election policy, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield filed a new lawsuit Wednesday to block the Trump administration from meddling with the state’s vote-by-mail system in the November midterm. “The Constitution is clear:…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (315+ words) Tributes to country star Dolly Parton are popping up all over Portland, in the form of cabaret, ice cream and DJ sets, and there’s surely more to come. Parton died Tuesday, Aug. 25, in Nashville. She was 80. Can Can’s Paris Theatre…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (402+ words) A day after the Supreme Court opened the door for the U.S. Postal Service to restrict Oregon’s vote-by-mail system, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read ordered election offices to administer the upcoming midterm election under existing state law. Read, a Democrat,…...