Julia Shumway
Editor-in-Chief at Oregon Capital Chronicle
Editor @ORCapChronicle, Capitol press corps president, @spjoregon board member. Past reporting in AZ, NE, IA. Bookworm, cat mom, national park geek.
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1 week ago |
oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Julia Shumway
Oregon elected officials responded with shock and sadness Saturday to news that one Minnesota lawmaker was killed and another injured in what Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called a “politically motivated assassination.”Minnesota law enforcement believe a man impersonating a police officer shot and injured Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in one Minneapolis suburb before driving to the home of Democratic-Farmer-Labor caucus leader Melissa Hortman.
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2 weeks ago |
oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Randy Stapilus |Julia Shumway
Oregon has a big and (relatively) new kind of business it doesn’t really know how to deal with. It should start soon to figure that out. This new sector consists of its mass of data centers, more of which are likely to pop up in coming years. But the state has no overall strategy for dealing with them. It should, because data centers, economically significant and technically important as they are, are a business unlike any other.
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3 weeks ago |
oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Randy Stapilus |Julia Shumway
If you were to imagine local places in this country that obstruct federal law, you might guess that map would look different depending on what kind of administration — Republican or Democratic, liberal or conservative — is in power in Washington. The Trump administration delivered a comprehensive list of more than 500 such places last week. And for Oregon, at least, it doesn’t look the way you would expect.
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3 weeks ago |
oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Julia Shumway
Oregon Capital Chronicle senior reporter Alex Baumhardt swept the investigative category of the 2024 Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest. The Capital Chronicle and Baumhardt won three total awards in the contest, which covered the best journalism of 2024 in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Washington. The Greater Oregon chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, which co-runs the contest with the Western Washington chapter, announced winners DAY.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Julia Shumway
Cherry blossoms frame the Oregon capitol. (Julia Shumway/Oregon Capital Chronicle)Para leer esta historia en español, haga clic aquí. The Capital Chronicle is launching a new feature this week: Noticias en Español, or Spanish translations of selected articles. It’s all thanks to reporter Mia Maldonado, a fluent Spanish speaker who for the past three years has translated stories she and colleagues wrote for the Idaho Capital Sun as part of its Sol-Capital Idaho section.
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