News State Rep. Lew Frederick entered the 2011 Legislature with a package of bills he hoped would respond to the six officer-involved shootings last year in Portland. Halfway through the session, Frede   More

News State Rep. Chip Shields (D-Portland) has a lot of competition in his bid for the appointment to replace state Sen. Margaret Carter (D-Portland), whose resignation to accept a state job takes effect this week. But if Shields does get bumped up to represent Senate District 22, there will be a domino effect on local Democratic Party politics since his seat in House District 43 would then come ...   More

News The list of candidates interested in the appointment to replace state Sen. Margaret Carter (D-Portland) got longer today when former City Council candidate Fred Stewart said he's running for the job representing Senate District 22. Stewart, the 44-year-old president and CEO of Stewart Group Realty as well as the former longtime head of the King Neighborhood Association, says he respects the...   More

News Now that the question of the new senator in Oregon District 22 has been resolved with last week's appointment of Rep. Chip Shields (D-Portland), Multnomah County Democrats must go through the whole process again of recommending replacements to the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners — this time for Shields in the House. Karol Collymore, an aide to Multnomah County Commissioner Jef...   More

News When last we left legislative politics in North and Northeast Portland, the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners had just chosen Chip Shields as the new senator in Senate District 22 to replace Margaret Carter after she stepped down to take a state job. Shields' selection two weeks ago of course created a new legislative void because the Democratic lawmaker had been in the state House re...   More

News The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners today chose Lew Frederick, a Democrat, to represent parts of North and Northeast Portland in the state House of Representatives. Frederick, a former TV reporter and current member of the state Board of Education, will fill the House District 43 seat vacated last month when the county board selected then-Rep. Chip Shields, also a Democrat, to fill ...   More

News A group of four community leaders led by former Gov. Barbara Roberts today sent a letter [PDF] to Republican state Senate candidates in Oregon asking them to publicly repudiate pollster Dennis Oliver Woods, who espoused extreme views toward women, African-Americans and gays in a 1998 book "Discipling the Nations" and more recently on a couple of websites. As WW reported last week, Woods has...   More

News When Republican gubernatorial nominee Chris Dudley addressed the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs' monthly "Coffee & Issues" breakfast on Sept. 24, he reprised a comment he'd made at an earlier interview with the Urban League of Portland. "I heard him say he 'understood what it was like to be a minority because he had played in the NBA," recalls state Rep. Lew Frederick (D-P...   More