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bankspost.com | Nigel Jaquiss
Less than two months after Gov. Tina Kotek told the Oregon Driver & Motor Vehicle Services division it could resume automatic voter registration, the agency has disclosed it has discovered an additional 118 noncitizens were placed on the voter rolls. In a report released April 11, DMV said all but one of the new discoveries are people who were erroneously put into the voter registration system between 2010 and 2023. The new discoveries are in effect “legacy” errors.
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1 week ago |
polkio.com | Nigel Jaquiss
Less than two months after Gov. Tina Kotek told the Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division it could resume automatic voter registration; the agency has disclosed that it has discovered an additional 118 non-citizens were placed on the voter rolls. In a report released April 11, DMV said that all but one of the new discoveries are people who were erroneously put into the voter registration system between 2010 and 2023.
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1 week ago |
wweek.com | Nigel Jaquiss
State Sen. Dick Anderson (R-Lincoln City) and Rep. Vikki Breese Iverson (R-Prineville) wrote to Oregon Labor Commissioner Christina Stephenson on April 8 following an Oregon Journalism Project story about the impact of Stephenson’s prevailing wage determinations on the development of affordable housing. That story highlighted a project in Astoria called Copeland Commons. The nonprofit that owns it hopes to convert the century-old building that once served as cheap hotel into workforce housing.
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1 week ago |
wweek.com | Nigel Jaquiss
CHIEF SPONSOR: State Rep. Pam Marsh (D-Ashland), along with 19 Democratic co-sponsors (and zero Republicans)WHAT IT WOULD DO: HB 3054 takes a concept Oregon lawmakers love and economists hate—rent control—and ratchets it downward in two specific sectors of the housing market: marinas and manufactured home parks.
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1 week ago |
wweek.com | Nigel Jaquiss
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is up for reelection in 2026 for the seat the East Portland resident and former Oregon House speaker first won in 2008. Merkley, a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee and a progressive in the mode of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), has never enjoyed campaigning or retail politics. He will turn 70 just before the 2026 general election.
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