Julia Shumway | jmshumway.bsky.social

With the #orleg back, a quick note that the best place to find my coverage is oregoncapitalchronicle.com and the best place for live updates or fun tidbits that don't make it into stories is bluesky (same username).

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…

As he prepares to step down from a "dysfunctional" Congress after a political career that spanned five decades, Democratic U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer is ever more certain he made the right choice. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/20/ore… #orpol

I think most of the people who care about #orleg livetweets are already on bluesky, but if you're not yet, I'm prioritizing posting over there for this special session and the 2025 session in the interest of not having to use multiple sites. bsky.app/profile/jmshum…

A single father Gov. Tina Kotek met just before Thanksgiving is one of the thousands of Oregonians who found a temporary home in a Project Turnkey shelter as the state struggles to build enough permanent homes. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/09/ore…

21 months and not 1 day in portland are we dirt to you taylor

A Republican who blames his losses in deep-blue #orleg districts on fraud and an attorney who represented plaintiffs in failed cases trying to end mail voting now want voters to amend the state Constitution to change the way Oregon has run elections for more than 20 years.

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 @JMShumway oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/12/04/fro…

All I want for Christmas is for media executives to stop firing journalists out of some misguided belief that they'll make more money by giving readers less news.

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…

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

Oregon Democrats appear to have eked out a supermajority in both the state House and Senate, with a narrow win confirmed in a rural Woodburn-based House seat late Tuesday. #orleg #orpol oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/27/dem…

And so it happened. @DonaldTrump picked @RepLCD as labor secretary. The Oregon Republican just narrowly lost her bid for a second term. @JMShumway has a comprehensive story on her that you won't want to miss: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/22/tru…

Oregon Rep. @LChavezDeRemer , 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…

TIL that not only is former #OR05 and #OR02 candidate Jimmy Crumpacker the scion of a political family, but his congressional forebear might have been murdered on a trip with the House speaker?!?

There's more money for lawmakers to spend and taxpayers to pocket in the the state's latest economic forecast, being presented to #orleg members shortly. #orpol oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/20/new…

Republican U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who narrowly lost her reelection bid earlier this month, may be in the running for labor secretary in the next Trump administration. #orpol oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/19/rep…

The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Oregon Magistrate Judge Mustafa Kasubhai to a lifetime appointment on the U.S. District Court for Oregon on Tuesday. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/19/u-s…