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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Before they ever sign a lease, start packing boxes or line up moving day help, Oregonians hoping to move into a new rental home can spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on application fees and deposits. Some Democratic Oregon lawmakers want to cut those costs. -
Oregon鈥檚 Senate Republican leader shared debunked claims from a social media parody account about federal government spending in a state-issued email newsletter decrying 鈥渇ear-mongering and misinformation.鈥� -
Washington, Arizona and Illinois joined Oregon in one case, while California and other Democratic states filed a separate lawsuit. -
Attorney General Dan Rayfield is joining lawsuits to protect Biden administration rules, but most state leaders say they don鈥檛 want to respond to everything Trump says or does. -
The event marks the ceremonial start of the long session, which officially kicks off on Jan. 21. -
The Democratic attorney from Corvallis replaces retiring Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum. -
From a historic election to record wildfires to drug recriminalization, 2024 was a big year for state government and political news in Oregon. -
Oregon lawmakers last week previewed some of their ideas to build more homes and lower rents and home prices for Oregonians struggling with the high cost of housing. -
Thousands of people statewide have been at least temporarily housed through Project Turnkey, an Oregon program that turned $125 million into nearly 1,400 new shelter beds, mostly by buying and converting existing hotels and other vacant buildings into shelters. -
The FBI and local law enforcement are investigating after deliberately set fires at ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver early Monday morning damaged three ballots in Oregon and destroyed hundreds in Washington. -
The widely-opposed measure would increase corporate taxes to send a rebate to all Oregonians. -
The counties鈥� report comes as lawmakers try to craft a transportation funding plan.
