Shaanth Nanguneri

3 days ago | salemreporter.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

Oregon’s statewide ethics watchdog on Thursday referred a Portland-area lawmaker to the Legislature for clarity over whether a bill she authored that could benefit her medical practice raises a substantial conflict of interest. The Oregon Government Ethics Commission said Sen. Lisa Reynolds’ decisions regarding votes and bill introductions were within the purview of the Legislature and its legal counsel, according to a Thursday letter written by Susan Myers, the commission’s executive director.

6 days ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

Oregon’s statewide ethics watchdog on Thursday referred a Portland-area lawmaker to the Legislature for clarity over whether a bill she authored that could benefit her medical practice raises a substantial conflict of interest. The Oregon Government Ethics Commission said Sen. Lisa Reynolds’ decisions regarding votes and bill introductions were within the purview of the Legislature and its legal counsel, according to a Thursday letter written by Susan Myers, the commission’s executive director.

6 days ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

Despite bipartisan support for an Oregon bill limiting the amount of legislation a lawmaker can introduce every session, the measure has angered some prominent Republican lawmakers, who called it a partisan power grab during its first committee hearing. Three of the bill’s leading supporters — Sen.

1 week ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

Oregonians who have been wrongfully imprisoned can petition the state for tens of thousands of dollars in compensation and an official finding of innocence, a process that criminal justice reform advocates have long complained drags on and shortchanges exonerees. But a new bill introduced in February, Senate Bill 1007, aims to solve that problem by making it easier and faster to obtain compensation and findings of innocence from the state.

1 month ago | theintercept.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

For years, California Democrats have defended their landmark program to put ethnic studies classes in high schools across the state. In the face of national right-wing media attacks and local critics, the state’s governing supermajority passed a law in 2021 making ethnic studies a graduation requirement, which supports school boards to develop their own curricula for the courses. But one particular area of study threatens to unravel the Democratic consensus: Palestine.