Current head of Oregon labor bureau faces primary challenge from agency insider • Oregon Capital Chronicle Labor Commissioner Christina Stephenson is challenged by Chris Lynch, a 15-year veteran of the agency and a former civil rights investigator.

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Oregon labor commissioner faces former civil rights investigator in May primary election Oregon’s sitting labor commissioner, Christina Stephenson, will square off against Chris Lynch, a former Bureau of Labor and Industries civil rights investigator, in the nonpartisan May primary.

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Incumbent faces challenger in race for Oregon BOLI commissioner BOLI commissioner Christina Stephenson says she wants more progress in a second term. She'll face a former investigator, Chris Lynch, in the primary.

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How a broke musician made Portland weird in the 1980s by throwing a wild ‘people’s party’ A washboard player living in a trailer dreamed up Mayor Bud Clark’s inaugural ball that drew bikers, punks, hippies and politicians — and made national news.

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'Dear America': HUD workers say they're being blocked from doing their jobs A website with anonymous employee letters accuses the Trump administration of undermining work on housing discrimination. HUD says it's restoring "sanity" to fair housing enforcement.

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Oregon voters overwhelmingly approved limiting money in politics. Then politicians had their say • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon’s Democratic-controlled Legislature approved a bill that supporters described as containing little more than technical fixes to what they’d written two years ago.

Phil Keisling, a former secretary of state who advocated for campaign contribution caps only to see them overturned in court, described the #orleg track record on campaign finance as “one of the most profound public policy failures” in Oregon’s recent history.

The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics

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Lawmakers acknowledge their rewrite of Oregon public meetings law may undermine transparency, pass it anyway “A lot of us heard the concerns of some of our local journalism partners, and I want to flag that those are legitimate and serious,” one Democrat said.

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Paperwork for State-Funded, $125 Million Shelter Program to Stay Hidden The Oregon Community Foundation successfully argued public records laws don’t apply to private nonprofits.

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Bill could enable secret government talks, Oregon ethics chief warns A section that would provide broad exceptions to the public meetings law 'gives me heartburn,' said Susan Myers, executive director of the Oregon Government Ethics Commission.

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Avel Gordly, Oregon’s first Black woman state senator, dies at 79 “I know that my presence made a difference,” she said of her time in office. “I know that my voice made a difference.”

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On January 2, 2026, I filed as a candidate for the office of Commissioner of Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI). For more info, see www.cl4lc.com