OPB Politics Now

Last year, Oregon voters changed the state Constitution to allow limits on how much donors can give to political campaigns. But now the progressive groups that pushed to reign in spending can’t agree on who and what those new rules should include. On this week’s episode of OPB Politics Now, we’ll look at why the debate over money is so hard -- and what new rules might cover.

Oregon’s longest serving member of Congress is retiring. A firebrand Trump-style Republican is trying to take out an incumbent. And we now have a lot more clarity on what 2022 Congressional races will look like in the Pacific Northwest.
On this week’s episode, we’ll look at how this week’s big news changes next year’s fight for control of the U.S. House.

On a special episode, U.S. Rep Earl Blumenauer talks with OPB's Dave Miller about the Glasgow, Scotland, U.N. Climate Change Conference.

On this week's show, OPB reporter Dirk VanderHart and Oregonian/OregonLive reporter Noelle Crombie take a deep dive into Measure 110, the drug decriminalization measure voters approved last year. So far, the results haven't been as significant or widespread as supporters hoped.

On this week's episode, OPB reporters Lauren Dake, Sam Stites and Rebecca Ellis look at how two big 2022 campaigns are heating up and at the troubling news Portland leaders received this week about satisfaction among Black employees.

It’s been a big week in Portland City Hall -- with developments that touch on three of the most contentious issues of the day: homelessness, recent political protests and abortion. On this week's episode, OPB reporters Rebecca Ellis and Dirk VanderHart catch you up.

On this election preview episode, OPB Southwest Washington bureau chief Troy Brynelson takes a deep dive into several local races with much broader implications.

In this special episode of OPB's Politics Now, we bring you a conversation with U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden.

It wasn’t pretty, but the Oregon legislature concluded its special session to redraw the state’s political maps. The question now is whether those maps -- and civility in the statehouse -- can survive. This week, we’ll walk you through what happened, and what’s next.

After months of preparation, hours of hearings and hundreds of pieces of public testimony, Oregon lawmakers finally convened this week to take up the very important job of redrawing political maps. And practically right away, things descended into chaos. OPB political reporters Dirk VanderHart and Sam Stites have been trying to make sense of it all.