Challenging the feds via local self-government ordinance
Companies that include Williams Partners backing the Constitution Pipeline connecting New York to...
Read MoreCompanies that include Williams Partners backing the Constitution Pipeline connecting New York to...
Read MoreAll governments owe their existence to the people of the community that those governments serve,...
Read MoreSalem has legislated Coos County into depression.
Read MoreLike most incumbents he is dug in like a tic and nothing short of kerosine and a pair of tweezers will get rid of him.
Read MoreThere should be a good turnout in Coquille and and some tough questions regarding privileges to the timber industry are likely to be brought up
Read MoreLast Friday at a town hall meeting held by State Representative Wayne Krieger and State Senator...
Read MoreAccording to Senator Whitsett, the Oregon State Senate unanimously confirmed the appointments of Donna Opitz and Eric Farm to the Port Commission and ” followed the lead of three other Coastal caucus Senator members...
Read MoreIf someone had the time to analyze Kruse’s voting patterns on matters of prescription drugs and health care it might be interesting to see if a bias in favor of the industry can be detected.
Read MoreThe two party system is old and tired and either polarizes constituents into favoring an ideology over common sense or, in an effort to meet in the middle renders both parties benign and impotent. If ever there was a time to run third party candidates it is now.
Read MoreALEC’s model legislation reflects long-term goals: downsizing government, removing regulations on corporations and making it harder to hold the economically and politically powerful to account. Corporate donors retain veto power over the language, which is developed by the secretive task forces. The task forces cover issues from education to health policy. ALEC’s priorities for the 2011 session included bills to privatize education, break unions, deregulate major industries, pass voter ID laws and more.
Read MoreYou claim the foreign corporation can not do anything on my property until they get my consent. What you really mean is, with a wet-land fill permit on my property, they can force consent with eminent domain easier, paying us an unfair low payment for their forced used of our land — forced use perhaps by a foreign government
Read MoreHow about it, Governor Kitzhaber? You did a great job in identifying the problem during your first term. I believe Oregonians would be best served if, during your current term, you forgot about “streamlining” and concentrated on fixing our current obsolete and dysfunctional environmental management machinery.
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