1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (523+ words) Oregon’s chief government ethics administrator emerged Friday from an outside examination of her own conduct with no violation established, closing an extraordinary case that required the state’s ethics watchdog to look beyond its own offices for someone to investigate the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (456+ words) The investigation substantiated misconduct involving Chavez-DeRemer across six areas of her tenure, placing conduct inside the secretary’s office, during government travel and at her private residence within the same federal inquiry. Conditions inside the Labor Department became one of the…...

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, 4+ hour ago   (507+ words) The Oregon Department of Justice has closed its review of six complaints alleging misconduct by federal law-enforcement officers in Portland and Eugene, determining that none will proceed to a full criminal investigation after months of examination by state authorities. An…...