BY SARAH ROSS
SEASIDE- Amidst the annual gathering of Oregon Republicans, known as the Dorchester Conference, the three Republican candidates for governor debated the state’s top issues and their strategies Friday night.
The candidates, Allen Alley, Chris Dudley, and John Lim, met at the conference where participants each year vote on the Republican Party positions on state [...]

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BY SARAH ROSS
PORTLAND- In his official announcement to run for the United States Senate, Jim Huffman made clear Thursday that the focus of his campaign is job creation.
“What we need is more jobs for Oregonians,” Huffman said to his supporters gathered at Halton Trucking Company in Northeast Portland.
The campaign platform [...]

BY SARAH ROSS
SALEM- The three Republican legislators representing Salem held a town hall Tuesday to discuss the recent legislative session.
The legislators, Sen. Jackie Winters, R-Salem, Rep. Vicki Berger, R-Salem, and Rep. Kevin Cameron, R-Salem, opened the meeting by discussing their experiences during February’s month-long special session.
Sen. Winters highlighted the legislation she passed, including a bill [...]

BY SARAH ROSS
SALEM- Unemployment numbers released Tuesday by the Oregon Employment Department showed Oregon’s jobless rate has began to hover around 11 percent for January.
The numbers showed Oregon maintaining a 10.7 percent unemployment rate, which is up from 10.6 percent in December and 9.9 percent in January 2009.
The areas with the highest unemployment numbers included [...]

BY SARAH ROSS
PORTLAND- Lewis and Clark Law Professor, Jim Huffman, has scheduled his announcement to run for Ron Wyden’s US Senate seat for Thursday, March 4th.
Huffman has been rumored for weeks to be the GOP’s choice candidate to run against Wyden in this coming November’s senatorial election. A facebook event created by the Huffman for [...]

BY SARAH ROSS
SALEM- Coverage of the state’s biggest sports franchise, the Portland Trail Blazers, was the sole topic of conversation at the final House Consumer Protection Committee’s hearing Wednesday afternoon.
The informational meeting was held to allow discussion from interested parties on the controversy of Comcast SportsNet’s Trail Blazer coverage. The meeting drew testimony from the [...]

BY SARAH ROSS
SALEM- The Senate narrowly passed a bill presented by Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, to study lowering
greenhouse gas emissions in vehicles under 10,000 pounds throughout the state’s metropolitan areas.
The legislation, SB 1059, directs the Department of Transportation and the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study and develop plans to reduce greenhouse [...]

BY SARAH ROSS
SALEM- In a Monday morning vote, the House voted to pass a bill which will further restrict virtual schools, as well allow for waivers to keep some of the schools from closing.
The bill, HB 3660, was a result of work done over the year’s interim hearings in the Online Learning Task Force. It [...]

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BY SARAH ROSS
SALEM- In a signing ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda on Thursday morning, Gov. Ted Kulongoski, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, and other interested parties came together to sign a restoration agreement for the Klamath Basin region bordering Oregon and California.
The [...]

BY SARAH ROSS
SALEM- In a Tuesday morning vote, the Senate shot down a bill to ban the chemical bisphenol A in baby bottles and sippy cups.
The bill, carried on the floor by Sen. Jackie Dingfelder, D-Portland, lacked just a single vote to pass in the legislature’s smaller body. Failing on a 15-15 margin, three Democrats [...]