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Peter Lewis, the billionaire insurance magnate, is back in Oregon politics, once again supporting a pro-marijuana ballot measure.

The political week took a legalistic turn, as Oregon's leaders consider their roles in two important political issues.

Republican Chris Dudley says he wants to pursue a new scholarship plan for top students. Even in tough budget times, it's hard for political candidates to give up on the lure of a shiny new program. ... Big deal about Dudley not living in Oregon all his life.Btw what has Kitzhabers living in oregon all his life ever done to get unemployment down in oregon or make this state a better place to live?Sorry im not impressed and wowed by Kitzhaber living here all his life. ...

Two minor political parties and an Oregon state senator are going to court to try to stop the secretary of state from abbreviating the names of political parties on the ballot.

The voters of Oregon love to pay taxes and support Government services. There is no way Governor Kitzhaber would have won his way into nomination without the approval of the majority of Democrats who control politics in Oregon if he ...

WASHINGTON -- It's hard to be anonymous these days and nearly impossible to be invisible. That cell phone in your pocket may be indispensable, but it's also a traitor of sorts, continuously tracking your ...

Peter Lewis, the billionaire chairman of Progressive Auto Insurance, is back dabbling in Oregon politics. He recently gave $12,800 for the November ballot measure allowing medical marijuana dispensaries in ...

Democrats continued to pound on Republican Chris Dudley's decision to live in Camas, Wash., as a way to avoid paying full freight on Oregon taxes when he first played for the Portland Trail Blazers in the early 1990s ...

Playing Utah or Oregon St. was huge. Now we are crisscrossing the country to take on national powers and listening to folks like you cry your lungs out. We get a long weekend in DC, a chance to see family and visit ...

WASHINGTON - Take note, Mitt Romney. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is burnishing his standing among Republican primary voters who overwhelmingly oppose President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The law ...

Three Oregon Department of Energy workers have been ... believes this attempt to create a scandal without actual information is exactly what people hate about politics."

Six men who alleged they were sexually abused by an leader in the 1980s have settled their lawsuits against the group's national organization for undisclosed amounts. The settlements include the case of ...

Oregon was admitted to the Union as a free state. Most of the state is either mountainous or desert, and most of the state’s population is wedged into the Willamette Valley, between the Coastal Range and the ...

In an effort to encourage the same level of civil dialogue among Politics Daily’s readers that we expect of our writers – a “civilogue,” to use the term coined by PD’s Jeffrey Weiss – we are ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Another helping of federal aid to shore up battered state budgets might be tough to swallow for Republican governors who may challenge President Barack Obama in two years. They can take the money or ...