By Julia Shumway | Editor
Months after she lost the 2022 governor’s race, Christine Drazan launched a statewide nonprofit, A New Direction. It’s been largely inactive since she decided to return to the state House in 2024, but over the course of the two years that A New Direction was hosting roundtables and gathering information from voters who disapproved of drug decriminalization the nonprofit paid nearly $100,000 to a company Drazan and her husband own. Ethicists frown on the practice, but Drazan wasn’t an elected official at the time and thus wasn’t subject to ethical laws constraining public officials.
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Report finds tariffs exacerbated Oregon’s economic slowdown as Rayfield files third tariff-related lawsuit
State insurance marketplace poised for double-digit rate hikes
Oregon, other states sue over Trump administration’s efforts to get data on antipoverty program users
States including Oregon urge Supreme Court to keep pause on mail voting order
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By Shaanth Nanguneri
Reps. Shelly Boshart Davis, R-Albany and Christine Drazan, R-Canby, confer on the House floor on Thursday, June 26, 2025. A nonprofit Drazan, now a state senator and the Republican nominee for Oregon governor, founded is facing scrutiny over the nearly $100,000 it paid to her consulting firm. (Photo by Laura Tesler/ Oregon Capital Chronicle)
An Oregon nonprofit founded by state Sen. Christine Drazan, R-Canby, did not maintain a conflict of interest policy when it paid nearly $100,000 to a consulting firm she owns with her husband, missing a key step to help prove the transaction complied with tax law, records show.
By Mia Maldonado
Imports in Oregon outpaced exports for first time in years following Trump tariffs. (Courtesy of the Port of Portland)
President Donald Trump’s tariffs contributed to a $442 million loss in Oregon’s 2025-27 budget cycle, state economists estimate.
By Shaanth Nanguneri
Oregon Health & Science University’s hospital in southeast Portland. New rate proposals from Oregon financial regulators could result in double-digit premium increases for Oregonians' health insurance next year. (Photo by Lynne Terry/Oregon Capital Chronicle)
Oregonians who own small businesses or buy their health insurance as individuals on the state’s health insurance marketplace could see a more than 15% increase in their premiums in the next year, according to the state’s top financial regulators.
By Lilo H. Stainton | New Jersey Monitor
The Trump administration’s demand for states to provide Social Security numbers, immigration status, and other private information on low-income residents who receive cash benefits is improper and unconstitutional, a group of mostly Democratic-led states alleges in a new lawsuit.
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Democratic state officials urge US Supreme Court to affirm pause on Trump vote-by-mail order | Jacob Fischler
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