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Details: Written by By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press; Published: 16 August 2022

Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation due to a shortage of public defenders filed a lawsuit in May that alleges the state is violating their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial.

Details: Written by By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press; Published: 16 August 2022

(AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Wilbur Slockish Jr. has been shot at, had rocks hurled at him. He hid underground for months, and then spent 20 months serving time in federal prisons across the country — all of that for fishing in the Columbia River.

Details: Written by By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer; Published: 15 August 2022

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

A store in Overland Park, Kansas is one of 314 U.S. Starbucks locations where workers have petitioned the NLRB to hold union elections since late last year. More than 220 of those stores have voted to unionize.

Details: Written by Helen Silvis; Published: 11 August 2022

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The Oregon Lottery’s most recent advertising slogan is “Together, we do good things”. But when we look at where the profits are coming from and where any potential benefit from lottery profits flow to, is this really true?

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 11 August 2022

Oregon Governor Kate Brown

Two attorneys took particular issue with Brown’s decision to allow 73 people convicted of murder, assault, rape and manslaughter while they were younger than 18 to apply for early release.

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 11 August 2022

Jay Lee, research associate with the Sightline Institute's Democracy program.

The Portland Charter Commission aims to bring city in line with how other major U.S. cities do local governance.

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 08 August 2022

“If you guys have a lease, I’d just like to see the lease,”

Details: Written by By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press; Published: 05 August 2022

(Kevin Jantzer via AP, File)

A new map in Oregon that rated the wildfire risk of every tax lot in the state — labeling nearly 80,000 structures as high-risk — generated so much pushback from angry homeowners that officials abruptly retracted it

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 03 August 2022

(Photo/ David Gomes

A policy passed in 2021 requiring grocery stores pay employees an additional $4 per hour in hazard pay has just come to an end

Details: Written by RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press; Published: 03 August 2022

People line up to drop their primary election ballots at the drop box across the street from the Yakima County Courthouse, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Yakima, Wash. (Emree Weaver/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)

Voters were deciding the top two candidates in races for the U.S. Senate, Congress and the secretary of state's office.