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• Prewitt runs for Gilmour's county position - 2/6/2010

  Craig Prewitt, an 18-year member of the Phoenix-Talent School Board and its current chairman, is running for a Jackson County Board of Commissioners'...

  
• Energized Republicans hear from candidates for governor - 1/31/2010

  MEDFORD — Buoyed by recent gains for Republicans in special elections across the nation, Oregon's three GOP governor hopefuls stopped by...

• Ex-Knife River executive enters race for Walker's seat - 1/28/2010

  MEDFORD — In a race that will pit Republican against Republican, a retired Knife River executive and community leader hopes to unseat Jackson...

  
• Measures 66, 67 pass easily - 1/27/2010

  High income earners and corporations will pay more state taxes after the majority of voters statewide passed Measures 66 and 67 Tuesday.

  
• Measure 66, 67 ballots are due today - 1/26/2010

  Nearly 48 percent of Jackson County voters had turned in ballots in Tuesday's special election as of early Monday afternoon, according to the Jackson...

• The facts on measures 66 and 67 - 1/17/2010

  Campaigns for and against ballot measures 66 and 67 are ramping up their efforts to persuade voters as the Jan. 26 statewide special election nears.

  
• Legislators disagree over tax measures - 1/12/2010

  MEDFORD — Two Rogue Valley state legislators jousted Monday in a Medford forum over whether two state measures now on the ballot will dig...

• Shield law may turn on who is a journalist - 1/12/2010

  ASHLAND — Congress may soon consider the first federal-level shield law — protecting journalists' sources for stories — but an...

• Teachers canvas neighborhoods to get the word out on measures - 1/10/2010

  Frustrated by statewide public school budget cuts and fearful of more if two tax measures fail Jan.

• Wyden defends support for health care legislation - 1/8/2010

  The emerging health care legislation isn't the bipartisan, universal step he envisioned, but Oregon Sen.

• Buckley, Richardson to discuss measures 66,67 - 1/8/2010

  Two local state representatives will discuss ballot measures 66 and 67 at 6 p.m. Monday in Room 132 of the Higher Education Center, 101 S.

• Measures 66, 67 ignite split over future of Oregon - 1/6/2010

  Bright, successful people who care about Oregon disagree about how to keep it the place they love.

• Schools out? - 1/4/2010

  EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on measures 66 and 67, up for a vote Jan. 26. Ballots go in the mail Friday.

  
• Measuring up - 1/3/2010

  EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on measures 66 and 67, up for a vote Jan. 26. Ballots go in the mail Friday.