John Frohnmayer

Jeff Mapes is reporting that Portland Attorney Steve Novick has won the endorsement of the Oregon Education Association, one of Oregon's most powerful labor unions.

The voting by the 337 delegates at the Salem Conference Center was weighted based on contributions made by each local to the OEA's political fund.

While most of the Democratic blogosphere has busied itself tearing into one another, Independent candidate John Frohnmayer has been out doing what he does best: Launching an oratical offensive against one of the most offensive political machines of the last 40 years.

We'll pick up the coverage from the O's Harry Esteve

Independent Party of Oregon Founder, Linda Williams sat down with Colin Fogarty to discuss the Independent Party -- why it was created, what are its goals, etc.

Well worth listening to for anyone who wants to know what all of the hullaballoo is about.

Former NEA chair, and potential candidate for the U.S. Senate, John Frohnmayer gave conservative radio talker Lars Larson a lesson in humility in the Oregonian this week.

Larson, it seems, had picked up on a recent column by Dave Reinhard, criticizing the Port of Portland for posting a piece of art in a free speech exhibit at the PDX airport.

Larson calls the art obscene and anti-American. Here's Frohnmayer's response: