OPB’s goal each election season is to bring you the news and information you need to make informed decisions when your ballot arrives. That includes results on the most high-profile elections in Oregon and Southwest Washington. But it doesn’t include every race. Each year, we must make tough choices about which campaigns we can devote staff resources to cover, which ones we’ll count on partner organizations to report on and which ones we’ll need to refer you to state and county elections offices to understand in fuller detail.

As a general rule, we focus OPB resources on offices and measures that have the biggest potential day-to-day impact on the largest number of people, that highlight the challenges facing a particular community or population, bring light to a new trend in how campaigns seek to reach voters, or offer a chance to hold those in power accountable for how they use the resources of government institutions. OPB is headquartered Portland, and we have offices and journalists in Southwest Washington, Central Oregon and Eastern Oregon, so our more extensive election coverage tends to focus on those parts of the region. Read more - Anna Griffin, VP of news, talk & podcasts