Julia Shumway
Deputy Editor at Oregon Capital Chronicle
Deputy 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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salemreporter.com | Alex Baumhardt |Julia Shumway
Fred Cuozzo barely made it out of the South Obenchain Fire that burned through his home, barn, pumphouse and garage in Eagle Point, north of Medford, on Sept. 8, 2020. Three years later, PacifiCorp — owner of Oregon private utility Pacific Power — was found by a jury to have been reckless and negligent in causing that fire and three others.
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salemreporter.com | Alex Baumhardt |Madeleine Moore |Julia Shumway |Rachel Alexander
Portland-based clothing company Wildfang received a shipment from China right before President Donald Trump announced a 152.5% tariff on all Chinese goods. If that order had gone through just 48 hours later than it did, it would have cost Wildfang nearly $180,000 extra because of Trump’s tariffs, CEO Emma Mcilroy told Gov. Tina Kotek during a roundtable at Salem’s Chemeketa Community College Center for Business and Industry on Wednesday.
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oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Randy Stapilus |Julia Shumway
by Randy Stapilus, Oregon Capital Chronicle April 17, 2025 What do you do with legislation that cuts into the middle of how Oregonians live their lives, when most people want it but many are sharply opposed? The short answer: Test it, when that’s possible. Launch a suggested solution, but keep specifics general enough that details emerge through trial and error. That can mean requiring local governments to act but encouraging them to become the laboratories where we learn what works well or not.
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salemreporter.com | Les Zaitz |Alex Baumhardt |Julia Shumway
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve and make it easier to create realistic fake photos and video, Oregon lawmakers voted unanimously on Tuesday to add digitally created or altered images and recordings to the state’s “revenge porn” law. The House’s 56-0 vote means Oregon is a step closer to becoming the 32nd state to ban the use of AI or other digital manipulation to create and spread nude or sexually explicit photos without consent. House Bill 2299 now heads to the state Senate.
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salemreporter.com | Les Zaitz |Alex Baumhardt |Julia Shumway
For the seventh time in less than a decade, Oregon’s commercial fishermen, governor and congressional delegation are asking for federal aid to soften the blow of climate change on the state’s ocean salmon fisheries. In January, members of the Oregon Salmon Commission asked Gov. Tina Kotek to request a federal fishery resource disaster declaration from the U.S. Department of Commerce, over Oregon’s poor 2024 coastal Chinook salmon season — the seventh disaster-worthy season since 2016.
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As he prepares to step down from a "dysfunctional" Congress after a political career that spanned five decades, Democratic U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer is ever more certain he made the right choice. https://t.co/J7Qc82oq3L #orpol
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A single father Gov. Tina Kotek met just before Thanksgiving is one of the thousands of Oregonians who found a temporary home in a Project Turnkey shelter as the state struggles to build enough permanent homes. https://t.co/bX7YDuA3w7