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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]
9 Jan 2024, 9:49 pm by Staycie R. Sena
Three Oregonians are facing several charges after they reportedly became engaged in an incident involving road rage with another driver and ripped him out of his vehicle before attacking him. [read post]
5 Jan 2024, 11:02 am by Jack Bogdanski
’It also noted that agency leaders still didn’t know how many Oregonians were helped by the program. [read post]
2 Jan 2024, 5:53 am by Jack Bogdanski
Oregonians have mostly wised up to the fact that however lovely it sounds in practice, decriminalizing smack, meth, and fetty is never going to "work" in reality. [read post]
20 Dec 2023, 5:00 am by Jack Bogdanski
 Meanwhile, can you believe that the clowns at the Oregonian are still babbling about Portugal? [read post]
She argued, “The Harney County judge’s ruling is wrong…Worse, it needlessly puts Oregonians’ lives at risk. [read post]
21 Nov 2023, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
{This story is drawn from Phil Cogswell, Lawyers Hike 6 Miles in Woods to Find Justice Douglas, Oregonian, Sept. 1, 1970, at 6. [read post]
8 Nov 2023, 5:57 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Oregonians do not support costly, complicated, and convoluted tax increases, especially when those tax increases come with so little accountability for how the dollars will be spent or managed. [read post]
6 Nov 2023, 7:32 am by Jack Bogdanski
And although the official line is that she wasn't fired, the O is saying otherwise (albeit behind the Paywall of Pity).No reason has been given publicly for Tatch’s ouster, and [Shane] Kavanaugh [of the Oregonian] reports that Garman, RACC’s interim board director, denied that Tatch was fired, though she confirmed that she is no longer on staff. [read post]
24 Oct 2023, 6:32 am by jonathanturley
Oregon board members said proficiency is now unnecessary and harmed minority students since higher rates of students of color failed to reach these levels, The Oregonian reported. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 2:41 pm by Jack Bogdanski
So far they've housed 18 people.Multnomah County’s program to rapidly house homeless individuals living in tents near downtown Portland fell far short of its goal, even after the county dramatically dialed back the initiative’s early plans.Outreach workers managed to move just 18 people from a large encampment in Old Town into apartments between June and the first week of October, county officials told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Wednesday.That’s fewer than 20% of the… [read post]
17 Oct 2023, 5:27 pm by Jack Bogdanski
So now it's on the regular agenda for today's weekly bobblehead show.The Oregonian has the story behind its paywall, but from Twitter and various Google searches, I am piecing together that the attorney in question is named Tina Richards, and the contract that's being proposed could pay her limited liability company, TMR PLLC, more than $2.2 million over the next five years. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 1:00 am by Jack Bogdanski
That's right, zero.)As Sickinger knows and has been trying to tell Oregonians for a long time, the situation has been getting steadily worse for more than a decade now, and the people in charge have been thinking magically and pulling the public's leg. [read post]
29 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Rupert Murdoch to Step Down as Chairman of Fox Corporation and Fox News Billings Gazette – David Bauder (Associated Press) | Published: 9/21/2023 Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old Australian media magnate whose creation of Fox News made him a force in American politics, is stepping down as leader of both Fox’s parent company and his News Corp. media holdings. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:30 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Their website says:Oregon Housing and Community Services is Oregon's housing finance agency, providing financial and program support to create and preserve opportunities for quality, affordable housing for Oregonians of lower and moderate income.OHCS administers programs that provide housing stabilization – from preventing and ending homelessness, assisting with utilities to keep someone stable, to financing multifamily affordable housing, to encouraging homeownership. [read post]
20 Sep 2023, 9:47 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Because the county is so unspeakably mismanaged that it has no plan to address the situation and still can't manage to implement enough meaningful programs after several years of grappling with it.In March, Kotek signed a $200 million funding package, called the Emergency Homelessness Response, that she said would help move 1,200 Oregonians without shelter into housing and create 600 new shelter beds by January 10, 2024. [read post]