
Julia Shumway | jmshumway.bsky.social
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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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Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer , who cultivated a closer relationship with some labor unions than most Republicans and narrowly lost her bid for a second term in Congress, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Labor Department. #orpol oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/22/tru…

And so it happened. Donald J. Trump picked Archive: Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary. The Oregon Republican just narrowly lost her bid for a second term. Julia Shumway | jmshumway.bsky.social has a comprehensive story on her that you won't want to miss: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/22/tru…


The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday that it responded to a threat against Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, an Oregon Republican selected by president-elect Donald Trump to lead the federal Department of Labor. #orpol oregoncapitalchronicle.com/briefs/oregon-…

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek wants the state to spend more than $2 billion on homelessness and housing and send a record $11.4 billion to public schools as part of a budget focused on maintaining existing programs with little cash to spare for new initiatives. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/02/ore…

Kayse Jama arrived in Oregon in 1998 as a Somali refugee a with little to his name. Today, about a quarter of a century later, he's one of the most influential men in Oregon politics. This is a must read story by Julia Shumway | jmshumway.bsky.social oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/04/fro…







Longtime journalist DickHughes writes about troubling #orpol transparency trends. After Dick's column, a Kotek spox responded to me to claim the simple staff list was removed because of "threats of violence" and deferred questions to state police. oregoncapitalinsider.com/2025/04/17/cap…