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By GARY WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau The first day of spring could be a new beginning in the COVID-19 pandemic, with the likely lifting of indoor masking mandates, a state report forecast Thursday. The drop in daily hospitalizations from the omicron wave of the pandemic is accelerating and will pass below 400 per day by March 20, according to the latest

Kristof didn’t prove that he lived in Oregon by November 2019, court said  Nick Kristof speaks Thursday at his campaign headquarters in downtown Portland. He said the Oregon Supreme Court’s decision is “the end of the road” for now. (Alex Baumhardt/Oregon Capital Chronicle) By JULIA SHUMWAY and ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle Secretary of State Shemia Fagan was right to keep

Plan from Secretary of State Shemia Fagan would let election workers keep their addresses secret  Jackson County Clerk Chris Walker found 6-foot-tall painted white letters saying “VOTE DONT WORK. NEXT TIME BULLETS” in the parking lot across from her election office shortly after the 2020 election. (Chris Walker/Jackson County) By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Anyone harassing an election

By STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Service CORVALLIS – Research led by Oregon State University shows that fires are more likely to burn their way into national forests than out of them. The findings contradict the common narrative of a destructive wildfire igniting on remote public land before spreading to threaten communities, said Chris Dunn of the OSU College of Forestry.

If Republicans had power, the legislative session would be dominated by talk of tax cuts, school choice and clipping Gov. Kate Brown’s wings  A sign for the House Republican caucus room at the Oregon State Capitol. (Amanda Loman/Oregon Capital Chronicle) By JULIA SHUMWAY and ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle Two weeks into Oregon’s 2022 legislative session, Democrats are moving forward with

The first vote on the plan, which would establish a 40-hour workweek, is partisan, with Democrats in favor and Republicans opposed  A bill that would give Oregon farmworkers overtime pay after a 40-hour workweek advances in the Oregon Legislature. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — A controversial plan to require overtime pay that would affect the