By Julia Shumway | Editor
For the past four years, the 32nd House District on the North Coast has been one of a handful of truly competitive Oregon legislative districts. It includes all of Democratic-leaning Clatsop County and Republican-leaning Tillamook County, as well as part of the Republican-leaning Columbia County. Cyrus Javadi, a dentist and at the time a Republican political newcomer, eked out a victory with fewer than 1,000 votes in 2022 and won by a slightly larger margin in 2024.
But as Javadi eyes a hat trick, he’ll have to convince voters that his deciding vote on a set of transportation tax and fee increases and his subsequent switch to the Democratic Party aren’t disqualifying. Republican Max Sherman, a retired teacher, won the crowded GOP primary to take him on.
Reporter Mia Maldonado spent Tuesday in the district, meeting with Sherman at a local cafe, following Javadi as he knocked on voters’ doors and watching both participate in an Astoria forum.
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Advocates blast Trump’s campaign against in-state tuition for immigrants in Oregon and other states
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By Mia Maldonado
Rep. Cyrus Javadi, D-Tillamook, and Republican Max Sherman, of Hebo, speak at a candidate forum at Astoria High School on Wednesday Oct. 7, 2026. (Photo by Mia Maldonado/Oregon Capital Chronicle)
ASTORIA — Marcus Estes was the first person to answer Rep. Cyrus Javadi’s door knock Tuesday evening as the lawmaker made his usual rounds canvassing registered voters in his district.
By Alex Baumhardt
Firefighters construct handline on the southeast portion of the McCully Fire in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon on Aug. 24, 2026. (Photo courtesy of the National Interagency Fire Center)
A financial benefit for surviving family members of wildland firefighters who die fighting blazes on federal lands could increase tenfold under a new bill proposed by Oregon’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and Utah’s Republican U.S. Sen. John Curtis.
By Aspen Ford | Washington State Standard
Roughly 40 people waved signs, chanted and marched during a Walla Walla demonstration demanding a data center moratorium. (Photo by Aspen Ford/Washington State Standard)
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — More than four hundred Washingtonians across 19 locations took to the streets Sunday to demand a statewide moratorium on data centers.
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