Monthly Archive for Oregon
Oregon Stories Posted in November 2007
Developers express mixed feelings about downtown
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Register Guard
The Eugene City Council on Tuesday tried to see whether two developers are still interested in downtown Eugene and it got two answers: A tentative yes and an unenthusiastic maybe.
Justice for owners
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Albany Democrat Herald
Because the majority has spoken, nobody seems overly worried that Ballot Measure 49 is doing a big injustice to at least several hundred people. But our constitutional system is supposed to protect minorities from such sledgehammer tactics.
Opinion: Measure 49: A con after all
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Albany Democrat Herald
There were enough conditional clauses in Measure 49 that some of us thought the whole thing was a con. Now a memo from the state Department of Land Conservation and development seems to prove it.
Merit pay for teachers to resurface on Oregon ballot in 2008
Category: Education · State: Oregon · Source: The Associated Press
Teachers across Oregon are gearing up for a big fight over a potential 2008 ballot measure that would tie their salaries to their "classroom performance."
LTE: A puppet show
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Oregon · Source: Daily Astorian
At latest count, but not final, 13,189 registered voters in Clatsop County had expressed their wishes on ballot Measure 4-123 ("County retrieves 330 stray votes," The Daily Astorian, Nov. 8).
Heart of city still looking for a fix
Category: City Government · State: Oregon · Source: The Register Guard
If lessons can be learned from failure, Eugene by now should be well-schooled on downtown redevelopment. In the past two years, four major downtown redevelopment proposals collapsed under financial difficulties or political controversy.
Opinion: State's land-use law needs revision
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Silverton Appeal
No matter what you thought about Ballot Measure 49, the land-use measure approved in last week’s election, it got people talking. Now this state needs to keep the conversation going. The best way to do that is for Oregon to revive the comatose Big Look task force. The task force is a long-overdue rewrite of Oregon’s land-use policies. It covers transportation, the economy and housing, among other topics. It’s much broader than Measure 49.
Oregonians for Immigration Reform unveil proposed ballot measure
Category: Immigration · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
Oregonians for Immigration Reform will start gathering signatures for a ballot petition that would require people to pony up a valid social security number before registering to vote or getting a driver's license.
Heritage district campaign begins
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: Mail Tribune
Jackson County's historic preservation advocates will ask voters in November 2008 to create a countywide heritage district that would raise about $1 million per year to maintain collections of artifacts and historic properties such as the old county courthouse in Jacksonville.
Opinion: Ballot measures kick off 2008 election year in Oregon
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
It's often hard to pick one event or issue to write about when there are so many from which to choose. So here are some observations on a few events of last week that mark the official start of the 2008 election year.
Tobacco firms flex muscles in Oregon
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris delivered such a thumping to Oregon's proposed cigarette-tax increase Tuesday that the sound could be heard all the way in Washington, D.C.
Bush cites Oregon measure, says voters are sick of tax-and-spend
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Associated Press
An Oregon ballot measure entered the national debate over taxes and spending Tuesday as President Bush said the defeat of Measure 50 showed voters are sick of overspending by Democrats.
Springfield council on a winning streak
Category: City Government · State: Oregon · Source: The Register Guard
When it comes to gaining voter approval of ballot measures, the City Council is on a roll. The city is 7-for-7 since 2002 on issues referred to the ballot by the council.
Ore. Democrats want to trump GOP activist's property crime plan
Category: Crime · State: Oregon · Source: The Associated Press
Democratic legislators and Gov. Ted Kulongoski are quietly working on a plan to toughen sentencing for property crimes — a move aimed at blunting a more stringent measure by Republican activist Kevin Mannix.
Tobacco-Tax Measure
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Wall Street Journal
Voters in Oregon defeated a ballot measure to fund a children's health-care program by boosting tobacco taxes, the third time an industry campaign has helped defeat new taxes to fund such programs -- and perhaps a signal to lawmakers in Washington regarding a similar plan to raise the federal tobacco tax.
Taxes, Stem Cell Funding, School Vouchers Rebuffed in Ballot Measure Voting
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey Oregon Utah Washington · Source: Congressional Quarterly
“Off-year” elections do not attract the large number of referendums and issue initiatives that are typically found on ballots in presidential and congressional election years. But Tuesday, the Election Day for most states holding 2007 contests, featured a handful of ballot propositions that had national implications. The following are analyses of the outcomes of four of these measures.
An up and down night for ballot measures
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
It took The Oregonian's crack number crunchers all of 13 minutes to declare Measure 49 passed and Measure 50 failed.
Measure 49 passes big in Linn, Benton
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Albany Democrat-Herald
Linn and Benton county voters overwhelmingly sided with the majority of Oregonians who want to redefine Oregon’s land use laws in voting in favor of Measure 49. Statewide the measure passed 572,997 to 361,555.
Oregon Election Results!
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
Measure 49 passes, Measure 50 does not.
Votes light so far on weighty issues
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
Measures 49 and 50 put weighty issues on Tuesday's statewide ballot -- issues that long have aroused residents' passions.
Sorting fact from spin in Measure 49 campaign ads
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: The Register Guard
For weeks, TV viewers have been greeted by images of unhappy folks who share their fears of depleted retirement savings, seized property and vanished inheritances.
Opinion: Letter to the Editor: Measure 37 threatened land
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
In his reference to Oregon's initiative and referendum system, Mr. Vasend seems not to understand that the Legislature, being our elected representatives, also has the constitutional right to refer an issue to "we the people" for a vote.
Ballot measure in the balance
Category: Education · State: Oregon · Source: Baker City Herald
Whether for or against Ballot Measure 34, Baker School District voters are holding out hope for a narrow victory for their side.
Opinion: A big lie and laundered money
Category: Government Spending · State: Oregon · Source: The Daily Astorian
Measure 4-123 offers a solution to district attorney pay statewide In a local contest that has been thoroughly ugly, the dirtiest detail has been the expensive post card that carried the Big Lie. The lie was that Clatsop County Measure 4-123 could make our district attorney the highest paid in Oregon.
Big Tobacco plans to continue barrage of ads
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
Companies pay $12 million to try to stop Measure 50
Eugene goes to the polls: city's ballot explained
Category: City Government · State: Oregon · Source: Oregon Daily Emerald
The future of Eugene's roads and downtown area will be under consideration this election day
Tobacco campaign tops record $11 million
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
The tobacco money against Measure 50's proposed cigarette tax increase keeps piling in. Philip Morris has donated another $1.1 million to the campaign, putting total contributions to that effort over $11 million.
Opinion: Measure 49 wipes out property rights
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Silverton Appeal
Measure 49 wipes out property rights for Oregonians. It allows the government to take away value and use of your property without compensation.
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