Monthly Archive for Oregon
Oregon Stories Posted in October 2007
County ballot measure asks who's in charge
Category: Government Spending · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
Next week, Clatsop County voters will decide whether Joshua Marquis becomes one of the better paid district attorneys in Oregon's smaller counties, putting to rest a question that has roiled this community for months.
Commissioner candidate opposes ballot measure
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: KPIC 4
A candidate for Douglas County Commissioner asked the sitting commissioners to pass a resolution opposing Ballot Measure 49, the revisions to the Measure 37 land use law that voters passed a couple of years ago.
Galt OKs study on sales tax increase for police funding
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: Lodi News-Sentinel
Galt's police department could get a $400,000 per year funding boost if residents pass a potential ballot measure to increase the city's sales tax.
Albany council vote to support Measure 49 falls short
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Albany Democrat Herald
The Albany City Council on Wednesday declined Councilor Sharon Konopa’s request to pass a resolution in support of Ballot Measure 49. The measure in general would limit development allowed under the Measure 37 property-rights law approved by voters in 2004.
Foes of partnership law still want statewide vote
Category: Marriage · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
Opponents of Oregon's new domestic partnership law have asked a county clerk to change her decision about referendum signatures so the law can go to a statewide vote next year.
Cigarette maker adds $304,000 to tax fight
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
Reynolds American, the makers of Camel cigarettes, has contributed another $304,000 to the record-setting campaign against Measure 50, which would raise Oregon's cigarette tax by 85 cents a pack.
Constitutional conundrums
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: Oregon Daily Emerald
If passed, Measure 50 would be the nation's first tobacco tax included in a state constitution
Opinion: Measure 49 is a start; say yes
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Clackamas Review
Oregon voters have a choice in the Nov. 6 election as they seek to balance private-property rights against the need for orderly land use planning.
Which Prop One is which on your ballot?
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: King 5
If you live in certain areas of western Washington, you may have to vote more than once. That's because, in addition to the high-profile transportation measure under the name Prop One, some counties have their own measures, also called Prop One.
Oregonians reconsider land-use measure
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Stateline.org
Some consider their votes for Measure 37 a mistake. Original authors of 2004 land use measure stick to their guns.
Property-rights debate echoes across nation
Category: Property Rights · State: California Idaho Nevada Oregon Washington · Source: Statesman Journal
When Oregon voters approved Measure 37 three years ago, they sparked similar movements in other states.
Pot ideas will test acceptance
Category: Marijuana · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
Starting today, signature gatherers will ask Portland residents to put a law on next year's ballot decriminalizing possession of as much as an ounce of marijuana.
'04 law was 3 decades in making
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
To its supporters, Measure 37 was unfinished business from three decades earlier, when Oregon put most rural land off-limits to development.
Proposition 1: Free-for-all over roads, transit
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: Seattle Times
Opponents of the multibillion-dollar roads and transit measure on next month's ballot were once so underfunded and disorganized that few people took them seriously. No longer.
Opinion: Participate, preserve property rights by voting no on Measure 49
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Salem Statesman Journal
Letter to the editor from history teacher on Oregon's Measure 49, the property rights measure.
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