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Sen. Ron Wyden 

Wyden chairs the powerful Senate Finance Committee and also sits on the Energy and Natural Resources, Budget and Intelligence Committees.

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Civil rights organization urges a more complete definition of “affordable housing.”

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Klan “class initiation,” dated June 1, 1923. (Courtesy Photo: Oregon Historical Society) 

Oregon and the Klan - Part 3: When the resurrected Ku Klux Klan arrived here a century ago and rose to dominate state politics, Oregon was 98% white.

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(AP Photo/Andrew Selsky) 

As complaints about elections, many of them unfounded, pile up around the country, investigators tasked with dealing with them, find themselves defending the integrity of America’s system for choosing leaders

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Leni Tupper, director of the CLEAR Clinic 

The Community Legal & Educational Access & Referral Clinic aids those facing issues with immigration, eviction, criminal record expungement and more.

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In this photo provided by The Skatepark Project, skateboarder Tony Hawk poses for a picture at the Linda Vista Skatepark in San Diego in 2020. (Courtesy of The Skatepark Project via AP) 

Sara Campos of Portland was selected for the first class in The Skatepark Project’s fellowship program, which is training 15 skateboarding enthusiasts in community organizing and project management so they can build a skatepark in their neighborhoods.

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Tents line the sidewalk on SW Clay St in Portland, Ore., on Dec. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer, File) 

Measure 26-228 would scrap a century-old commission form of government that Portland is the last major U.S. city to use, and also implement a rare form of ranked choice voting.

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(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) 

California and Oregon approved statewide caps on annual rent increases. California’s annual cap cannot exceed 10% and Oregon’s is set at 7%, plus the consumer price index.

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The penalty issued by King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North was the maximum allowed for more than 800 violations of Washington's Fair Campaign Practices Act

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(AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File) 

The head of the U.S. Forest Service has denounced the arrest by an Oregon sheriff of a Forest Service employee after a planned burn in a national forest spread onto private land.

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