News GOP gubernatorial candidate Allen Alley has trailed rival Chris Dudley in fundraising for months. Alley made up some ground today, loaning himself $150,000. In this calendar year, Alley has raised $508,000, less than half of Dudley $1.13 million. Dudley has $181,000 remaining; Alley shows a deficit of $205,000 but that includes loans to himself of $365,000 so he actually has about the same amount ...   More

News Here's the final installment of the taped interviews with Oregon gubernatorial candidates that ran during Candidates Gone Wild last week. Today, we present Republican Bill Sizemore: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkv9TJISetk[/youtube] Got more time to kill this Mother's Day? Check out the previous videos of Democrats John Kitzhaber and Bill Bradbury as well as Republicans Allen ...   More

News Just a guess. But the call that Oregon's Senate Republicans made today for a special legislative session to deal with the $563 million budget shortfall announced yesterday could give all GOPers a chance to pound on the Democratic majority in both chambers for passing what now appears to have been an overly optimistic budget last year. Here's a statement from the Senate minority office: Salem, ...   More

News The Oregon Secretary of State's Office has released its latest round of voter-registration tallies. And for Democrats headed into the November election, the news is not positive. Compared with a year ago, Dems lost a total of 43,002 voters statewide as of the end of June 2010—the most recent data available. That's a 4.7 percent loss over the 12-month period since June 2009. Republicans ...   More