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25 Mar 2024, 5:33 am by Jim Sedor
An Elaborate PAC Scheme Is Helping Pay Them – for Now” by Erin Mansfield and Zac Anderson (USA Today) for MSN Oregon: “Oregon Secretary of State Says It Needs More Money, Employees to Overhaul Outdated Campaign Finance Filing System” by Carlos Fuentes (Portland Oregonian) for MSN Pennsylvania: “Philly Ethics Board Looks to Tighten Rules After Jeff Brown Super PAC Scuffle” by Meir Rinde for Billy Penn Elections… [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
  National/Federal Congressional Hearing on the Biden Classified Documents Probe Turns into a Proxy Campaign Battle Associated Press News – Zeke Miller, Colleen Long, and Farnoush Amiri | Published: 3/12/2024 Lawmakers turned a hearing on President Biden’s handling of classified documents into a proxy battle between the Democratic president and Donald Trump, as a newly released transcript of Biden’s last fall showed he repeatedly insisted he never meant to retain… [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 5:43 am by Jack Bogdanski
This year lots of Oregonians are hearing from the IRS that there are people trying to hijack their tax accounts. [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance Oregon: “Legislature Passes Historic Campaign Finance Bill” by Carlos Fuentes (Portland Oregonian) for MSN Elections National: “RNC Installs Trump’s Chosen Leaders in Merger with His Campaign” by Isaac Arnsdorf (Washington Post) for MSN Ethics California: “S.F. [read post]
Conversely, Oregon Senate Republican Leader Tim Knopp praised the bill’s passage, stating: Republicans stand united with Oregonians who overwhelmingly believe we deserve better than Measure 110. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 1:59 pm by Jack Bogdanski
One of the plaintiffs' lawyers inadvertently handed over to an Oregonian reporter, Matthew Kish, some documents that the court had sealed in the case. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Seek to Curb Utility Spending on Politics, Ads and More Extras” by Robert Zullo for Arkansas Advocate Oregon: “Portland, Businesses Push for Public Records Exemption Amid Pending Release of Which Firms Paid Clean Energy Tax” by Shane Dixon Kavanaugh (Portland Oregonian) for MSN Legislative Issues National: “McConnell Will Step Down as the Senate Republican Leader in November After a Record Run in the Job” by Michael Tackett (Associated… [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 3:07 pm by Eugene Volokh
The Oregonian as a limited purpose intervenor to this action lacks the status of a full party. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance Oregon: “Lawmakers Push to Pass Oregon Campaign Finance Limits in Next 2 Weeks, Amid Concerns About Loopholes” by Carlos Fuentes (Portland Oregonian) for MSN Elections National: “Court Battle Reveals Effort to Undermine No Labels Presidential Bid” by Michael Scherer (Washington Post) for MSN Ethics National: “Supreme Court Seems Divided on Cases That Could Lead to a Rethinking of the First Amendment” by Brian… [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 10:11 am by Jack Bogdanski
But emails show the agency intentionally refrained from making it public until at least the summer of 2022, at which time Oregon’s frenzied initial COVID response and three peak waves of infections and deaths had passed.In addition, in response to criticism from a leading Republican lawmaker in the wake of The Oregonian/OregonLive’s report, the agency’s new director, who came on board after the study was suppressed, wrote that the agency did not share the study with… [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 6:32 am by Yosi Yahoudai
(Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, File) Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 6:18 am by Jack Bogdanski
The former chief information officer for the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission, Slobodan Subasic, filed a lawsuit against the state of Oregon, the OLCC and several state agency managers on Feb. 4.The lawsuit, filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleges that the OLCC wrongfully terminated Subasic, deprived him of due process and medical leave, inflicted emotional distress on him, and retaliated against him for whistleblowing.Subasic was one of a half-dozen senior managers fired last year in… [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 5:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
In 2023, that program launched, giving Oregonians suffering from depression, anxiety or addiction or approaching the end of their life access to a specific ‘breakthrough therapy’ that has been demonstrated to provide healing and hope. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Luxury Spending, Internal Strife Leave NRA Staggering Into 2024 Election Anchorage Daily News – Beth Reinhard and Sylvia Foster-Frau (Washington Post) | Published: 2/4/2024 In 2016, the National Rifle Association (NRA) endorsed helped catapult Donald Trump to the White House with $31 million in campaign spending. [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Katie Hobbs’ Fundraising Numbers, but Can See Others” by Stacey Barchenger (Arizona Republic) for Yahoo News New York: “Donors to Adams’ 2025 Campaign Say They Were Secretly Reimbursed Thousands of Dollars” by George Joseph (The Guardian), April Xu (Documented), Yoav Gonen, Bianca Pallaro, and Haidee Chu for The City Elections National: “In More Places This Year, People Can Vote in Their First Language” by Katherine Hapgood for… [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Quig (Chicago Tribune) for Yahoo News Oregon: “Oregon Voters Likely to Decide on Dueling Campaign Finance Measures This Fall” by Carlos Fuentes (Portland Oregonian) for MSN Elections Georgia: “Georgia Secretary of State Says It’s Unconstitutional for Board to Oversee Him, but Lawmakers Differ” by Jeff Amy (Associated Press) for Yahoo News Ethics California: “OC Board of Supervisors Deadlock on Conflict of Interest, Discretionary… [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 5:22 am by Jack Bogdanski
” Among other concerns, the commission cited the potential loss of local control as a reason Oregonians should be wary.But you have to wonder whether the Oregon bureaucrats making the decision – whoever they are – will really consider the con's when so many people in high places are so connected to the people who will make bank if it happens. [read post]
19 Jan 2024, 1:40 pm by Jack Bogdanski
One council member told The Oregonian/OregonLive he didn’t expect any recommendations in the draft proposal to change.Their recommendations include:Increasing all personal income tax brackets by 0.5 percentage points to raise $699 million.Establishing a $1 per $1,000 real property tax assessment above Measure 5′s voter-enacted limits to raise $504 million.Creating a 0.5% retail sales tax to raise $501 million.Establishing a 0.5% payroll tax to raise $620 million.Doubling the… [read post]