Oregon voters have narrowly passed measures that would strengthen gun laws and mandate health care as a human right. Measure 114 requires state residents to obtain a permit to purchase a gun, bans large-capacity magazines over 10 rounds except in some circumstances and creates a statewide firearms database. To qualify for a permit, an applicant would need to complete an approved, in-person firearm safety course, pay a fee, provide personal information, submit to fingerprinting and photographing and pass a federal criminal background check. Measure 111 makes Oregon the first state in the country to change its constitution to explicitly declare affordable health care a fundamental human right.

A high-profile Idaho attorney who has defended in state and federal courts some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation is among the latest attorneys to quit state employment. Former Deputy Attorney General Megan Larrondo is one of eight attorneys and a handful of other staffers who have left or are leaving the Idaho attorney general’s office following Raúl Labrador’s win over five-term incumbent Attorney General Lawrence Wasden in the Republican primary in May. More departures are expected. Labrador has promised to make the office more partisan should he win in next week's general election, and in a series of recent interviews has denigrated attorneys in the office.

WHIDBEY ISLAND, Washington — A civil rights activist, a business owner, a lawyer, an engineer and the founder of a winery and his family were …