OPB Politics Now

This month, we’re hearing from nine of the candidates vying to be Oregon's next governor. It's an open seat for the first time since 2015. Starnes is a cabinet maker and home restorer who ran on the Independent Party ticket in 2018. Starnes’ primary issue is putting a cap on campaign donations.

This month, we’re hearing from nine of the candidates vying to be Oregon's next governor. It's an open seat for the first time since 2015. Bob Tiernan is seeking the Republican nomination. He lives in Lake Oswego and works as a business consultant. He served in the Oregon Legislature in the 1990s and was chair of the Oregon Republican Party from 2009-2011. In 1994, he was a chief petitioner of Measure 11, which created mandatory minimum sentences for many violent crimes.

This month, we’re hearing from nine of the candidates vying to be Oregon's next governor. It's an open seat for the first time since 2015. Stan Pulliam is seeking the Republican nomination. He’s currently the mayor of Sandy, where he grew up. He has also worked as a legislative staffer. In 2020, Pulliam pushed back against statewide COVID-19 restrictions as a prominent voice in the Main Street Mayors coalition.

This month, we’re hearing from nine of the candidates vying to be Oregon's next governor. It's an open seat for the first time since 2015. Bridget Barton is seeking the Republican nomination. Barton lives in West Linn, and has worked as a conservative writer and political consultant for many years.

For the second time this year, Yamhill County residents voted this week on whether to recall a conservative elected official. And just as happened in the earlier recall election -- focusing on two right-wing members of the Newberg School Board -- it looks like this recall effort has also failed.

On this week's show, we'll look at the shockingly high number of Oregon lawmakers not seeking reelection and a new effort to save a dying breed: Moderate Democrats.

The Oregon Legislature has just finished its 2022 session. On this week's show, reporters Dirk VanderHart, Lauren Dake and Sam Stites look at what lawmakers did achieve - farmworker overtime and a lot of new spending - and what they did not - bad news for Oregonians who want to pump their own gas.

On this special bonus episode of OPB Politics Now, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler talks to OPB's Dave Miller about his new approach on homelessness.

State lawmakers have $2.5 billion more than they expected. And they've got big plans to spend it. On this week's show, we break down a Democratic plan to make a dent in homelessness and a financial olive branch extended to Republicans.

Nick Kristof is officially out of the race for Oregon governor and will not appear on the May primary ballot as a candidate in that race. The former New York Times columnist quit his job to run for Oregon’s top job. On Thursday, the Oregon Supreme Court issued an opinion affirming Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan’s determination that Kristof cannot legally vie for the governorship because he does not meet the state’s three-year residency requirement. Kristof joins us to talk about what’s next for him.