Chris Dudley News

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber says he's engaging two of the state's top political strategists -- one a Democrat and one a Republican -- to help come up with a tax reform plan he could someday take to voters.

After surviving the end of the world, a Wile E. Coyote-like dive off the fiscal cliff and another disappointing collapse by the Oregon State Beavers, the time has come for the fleeting ritual of New Year's resolutions.

By Jayne Carroll Washington County Republican politics are in disarray. Oregon's fastest growing area, where Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley did so well in 2010, was hoped to be the epicenter of the rebuilding of the state party this year.. Democrat Congressman David Wu was forced out of office in July 2011 in disgrace.

Local government, public education and state agency budgets are stretched thin, and everyone realizes that one solution involves reform of Oregon's Public Employee Retirement System.

Planned Parenthood of the Columbia-Willamette is expected to choose its new CEO at a board meeting tonight.