Monthly Archive for Oregon
Oregon Stories Posted in December 2007
Initiative filings lean to the right politically
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Oregon · Source: The Register Guard
Oregon voters may be asked to do something next year that the Legislature and governor aren’t inclined to do: tilt the state to the political right. With the Legislature in Democratic control and fellow Democratic Gov. Ted Kulongoski ready to sign its bills, conservatives are turning to the initiative system as an outlet for their goals of reducing government, curbing union clout and advancing their ideas on how the legal system should treat gays, illegal immigrants and women seeking abortions.
Former Washington governor rekindles doctor-aided suicide debate in the Northwest
Category: Suicide · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
Former Washington Gov. Booth Gardner is on this Sunday's cover of The New York Times Magazine, achieving a prominence in the waning days of his life that eclipses his eight years in office from 1985-93.
Crusade against Sizemore smacks of revenge
Category: Bill Sizemore · State: Oregon · Source: Albany Democrat Herald
Bill Sizemore isn’t the potent political force in Oregon he once was, but the teachers’ union is still after him. It smacks of retribution. In the 1990s Sizemore sponsored initiatives to limit public spending, and the Oregon Education Association and another union went to court to fight him with a lawsuit charging racketeering. In 2002 they won a $2.5 million judgment against his political organization, Oregon Taxpayers United. More recently they also won a court order for attorney fees in another case. Now they’ve sued him again, charging that he was getting money indirectly and hiding assets in his wife’s name.
City street repairs on road to ‘08 vote
Category: Transportation · State: Oregon · Source: Register Guard
City leaders on Wednesday signaled that they may ask Eugene voters next year to pay new taxes for street repairs, but probably won’t yet ask them to pay for a new City Hall.
County projects clear first hurdle
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Argus Observer
The Malheur County Court spent most of its regular session Wednesday preparing for some of its meetings next month, but the elected board also decided to continue a public hearing on a proposal to expand the Malheur County enterprise zone until Dec. 12 and sifted through Measure 37 land-use claims court members will settle at meetings Dec. 5 and Dec. 12.
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