News  As The Oregonian reported earlier today, a Marion County grand jury decided not to charge former Assistant Attorney General Brent Foster with a crime for his conduct in a Hood River County case.Foster, formerly the director of Columbia Riverkeeper and one of Attorney General John Kroger’s highest-profile hires after Kroger won election in 2008, greeted the ...   More

News   Attorney General John Kroger’s office sends out a lot of press releases that have varying degrees of interest to the general public. But today’s information [PDF] could save Oregon consumers money and keep them from getting fleeced. Kroger’s staff compiled a list of the 20 “worst” charities, using as the criterion the percentage of revenue those charities ...   More

News   Yesterday, Attorney General John Kroger released his list of the 20 “worst” non-profits operating in Oregon. The absence of any Oregon-based non-profits from the list could generate concerns Kroger is going easy on local outfits. But here’s a story from the (Eugene) Register Guard about a fascinating lawsuit Kroger filed against the natural foods company ...   More

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News Attorney General-elect John Kroger campaigned on a promise to shake up what some people have considered a staid operation. At least two of the three special counsels he named today will go a long way toward helping him accomplish that goal when he starts next month as head of Oregon's Justice Department. According to sources in the legal community, Kroger has hired lawyers Margaret Olney, ...   More

News UPDATE, Wednesday 12:45 pm: The state Attorney General's office has announced it will investigate. Click here to read the AG's statement. --------------------------- In a sign that Mayor Sam Adams' support is eroding, three of his four council colleagues —commissioners Nick Fish, Amanda Fritz and Randy Leonard— have signed a letter asking Attorney John Kroger to open an investigation ...   More

News Mayor Sam Adams told WW about 3:45 pm today that he is close to making a decision about whether he will resign or fight to keep his office. Adams is meeting individually with city commissioners tomorrow morning. "I'm not going to keep people waiting much longer," Adams told WW. "I need to make a good decision and make it soon." Adams, who has not been back to City Hall since a Tuesday press ...   More

News Liberal critics of Oregon's ballot-measure process rejoiced last year when Attorney General-elect John Kroger let it be known he was hiring longtime union lawyer Margaret Olney to oversee election-law reform. Olney has earned praise for her work with two powerhouses — the Oregon Education Association and the Service Employees International Union, which dumped cash into Kroger's campaign ...   More

News As if swine flu wasn't scary enough, now Attorney General John Kroger is warning (PDF) about scams inspired by the disease. Kroger's office is encouraging people to be vigilant about screening e-mails from unknown sources and not to follow links to bogus medical sites or sites that pitch defenses against swine flu. "We are trying to warn people before they get burned by these scams, because ...   More

News Once again today, members of the City Club of Portland declined to ask a high-profile speaker a single question about the biggest local news story of the year. Attorney General John Kroger told the crowd at the Governor Hotel he'd taken pains to address his recently completed investigation of Mayor Sam Adams during his lunchtime talk for members of the civic group. He included the topic in his ...   More