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"A moderate by definition is one of three things; somebody who sits around and waits for a majority to form and then joins it, a conservative who is pro-choice, or a liberal."
-- Rush Limbaugh, June 5, 2001
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- PERS Set to Redistribute Its Reserves.
- PUC Will Give View on PGE Rate Debate.
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Senator Smith One Of the First Republicans to Publicly Support Democrats On Part D of Bush Medicare Prescription Plan.
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Senators Gordon Smith and Orin Hatch Among Spector's Staunchest Allies for Push to Legalize Embryonic Stem Cell Services. Specter and Hatch claimed for more than a year to have commitments from 58 senators. That total has increased to 61 or 62, according to Chamberlain Resnick. (The Hill)
- Many Try to Connect with Transportation Dollars.
- Campaign Finance Petition Drive: Second Examination of Signatures Drops More Names than It Adds.
- Biscuit Logging May Light Fuse.
- Sen. Gordon Smith v. President Bush on Cutting Back On Medicare Funding. [Programs which were hardly being used are what is being cut. These aren't cuts. They are simply not increasing the amount of funding in a projected budget. Useless programs that few people wanted are being cut. It's the efficient thing to do.]
- Beating at State Hospital: Need Tougher Punishment to Send Message?
- Islamic Charity, Lawyers File Wiretapping Lawsuit Against Wiretapping. [And who else would be more concerned about wiretapping?]
- State Police Would Like to Add More than 100 Officers.
- Public Input about Plan to Sell Forestland. Deadline March 30.
- Senators Balk at Bush's Land-Sale Plan for Schools. [Wyden would rather pay rural logging areas to compensate for losses rather than return to true logging which would make the loggers independent again.]
- WOU Recognizing 'Free Speech Day' Today.
- Input About Plan to Sell Forestland Sought. Rural schools and roads would benefit from Bush's Proposal.
- County Won't Lease Motel for Ex-Inmates.
- Hooley Files to Run for Sixth Term.
- Lake Oswego Schools Lose Students as House Prices Soar.
- Statesman Journal Reprints LA Times Letter to the Editor by Angry Mexican Author. Author wants America to apologize to past and present immigrants. If you are against the mass immigration of illegals, you are a hateful bigot. Get the message?
- Tualatin Seeks Funding Shift for Library.
- Salem-Keizer: Electives Won't Be Cut at District's High Schools.
- Delay Tangles Plan to Fill Council Seat.
- Salem-Keizer: New Online Program to challenge Students.
- OR One of Nine States to Match 1,000 Genetic Profiles to Unsolved Crimes. Push for funding.
- S. Renee Mitchell, Oregonian: Being Against a Candidate (Diane Linn) Is Not Enough.
- Oregonian Columnist, Rick Bella, Says Figuring Out Measure 37 Still Guesswork. [Bunk. How come the people who are confused about Measure 37 are usually the same ones who were never in favor of it in the first place?]
- Home Inventory Expands In Eugene. Lane County's inventory of active residential listings reached a 4.1-month supply, the highest amount in two years, according to the monthly report from RMLS Inc., a Portland-based firm that provides multiple-listing services.
- Is the FDA Allowing Citizens to Be Used As Guinea Pigs Without Their Permission? The 1996 federal regulation in question allows trials of possible life-saving treatments without patient consent if participating facilities inform members of the community about the trial and gauge public sentiment. (Sierra Times)
- Supreme Court Rules In Printer Ink Case.
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Volunteers Sought to Test Alternative to Gas Tax. Fee based tax based on how far people drive. Oregon, like other states, has seen a drop in gas tax revenue because of increased fuel efficiency. A task force set up by the 2001 Legislature developed the mileage fee idea. [So, let's just get rid of all that efficiency. It just leads to higher taxes anyway.]
- LATINOS SPUR ENROLLMENT SURGE. Public schools' growth, the most in years, catches OR officials by surprise. [Surprise!? Where have they been?]
- Woodburn: OR Dept. of Human Services -- Safe Drinking Water Loan Fund Tops $100-M.
- Providence Chief Faults Audit.
- N. Clackamas-12 Board Places School Bond On November Ballot.
- Kulongoski Fears Guard Cuts Will Hurt State.
- Roseburg: Teen Shooter Had Fascination With Guns.
- U.S. Supreme Court Revisiting Assisted Suicide. Reviewing whether or not it should be a state controlled or federally controlled issue.
- Portland: District' Affordable Housing At a Crawl.
- Sen. Smith Among Nat'l Speakers at Third National Summit On Retirement Savings.
- Oh Let's Thank La Nina for the Lack of Drought.
- Tigard: High School Rescinds 'Plus/minus' Grading Policy. The plus/minus system, ...would have awarded grade points at intervals but also would have increased standards. For example, an A would be awarded for a performance percentage of 93, a B for an 83 and a C for 73.
- Oregon's Jobless Rate Hits 5-Year Low.
- Firing of Common Cause Exec. In Protest.
- OSAA Will Appeal to Keep New Leagues.
- OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND. As the gov't removes thousands of historical documents, there's hardly a peep of protest. "So you may have missed the report in The New York Times last week that in a seven-year secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have quietly removed from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years." (Editorial by the Oregonian)
- Forest Biomass Group Meets March 2, Salem. Public invited.
- DHS Hosts Baby Showers Throughout the State.
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- Billions Of Tax Subsidies To Convince YOU that You Want that Synthetic Fuel. "As then House majority leader Jim Wright, a Texas Democrat, put it at the time, "[This] will show Americans the nation is moving ahead. We are going to declare our energy independence." -- "Last November the lobby scored a remarkable coup. Buried deep in a bill called the Tax Relief Act of 2005, passed by the Senate on Nov. 18, was Section 559, titled "Modification of Credit for Producing Fuel from a Nonconventional Source." -- "Asked again by TIME to identify the author, the Senate Finance aide later wrote in an e-mail, "the provision originated as an amendment from Sen. [Rick] Santorum [a Pennsylvania Republican]. Sen. [Gordon] Smith [an Oregon Republican] had a similar amendment co-sponsored by several other Senators, Republicans and Democrats." (Reported by the very liberal CNN)
- Report: OR Not Too Taxing On Business. Gubernatorial candidate Pete Sorenson is making Oregon's corporate income tax structure an issue in his campaign ...Oregon's score got a big boost from the state's lack of a sales tax. The study's authors said they reward states that avoid using a major tax, such as sales or income. [And Sorenson will use this report to support a rise in taxes?]
- COUNTER PROTEST -- IMMIGRATION RALLY ALERT! -- Sat., 3-3
- Max Redline: David Johansson Of NW Meridian Needs To Do His Research On Immigration Issue.
- Kulongoski Will Speak at Economic Forum.
- Multnomah County: Wheeler Homes In On Diane Linn's Vulnerability.
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Oregon's Day-Care Workers to Unionize.
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The Contradictions of Being Pro-Choice. UO Student commentary. Hopes SD gov. doesn't sign pro-life bill, but...
- Portland Bishop Links Abortion with Heresy.
- The Conservative Voice Responds to Portland Bishop's Stance On Abortion. "The right-to-murder heresy is rejection of responsibility for one' pre-born brother or sister..."
- Lotto Workers Critical of Process.
- Lawmakers Bone Up On Health Care. A dozen committees, commissions and task forces...
- Jackson County: Judge, Attorney Accused of Hindering Investigation.
- Credit Competition: Banks starting to see credit unions as serious threats. Credit union membership in OR equals 38% of the states' population, about 9% more than the average state. (MSNBC)
- UO Hispanic Guest Speaker Drawing Attention to Huge Number of Sadistic Murders of Women Just Over TX Border. At the factories, they are required to take a pregnancy test before beginning work, must take birth control pills, and must show evidence to their bosses of menstruation each month to keep their jobs. Any factory worker who does become pregnant is usually forced to have an abortion or give the child up for adoption, because, Gaspar de Alba explained, a pregnant worker is not a productive worker.
- OU Inventions Bring In Record Amount $$.
- Kulongoski Rips Factions Within Own Party. When he goes on the road, Kulongoski said, "Nobody tells me they go home at night and they worry about abortion or gay rights or the ESA (Endangered Species Act). They tell me they worry about their jobs."
- W. Salem: Work (Indoctrination) In Class Leads to Activism. Ethiopia Eden plants trees in Ethiopia to replace many of the forests that have been cut down...[And they know how much about American history and the real intent of our Founding Fathers?]
- Portland; Hearing Will Discuss Open-Space Bond Proposal.
- Institute Study Claims Salem Poor In Job Creation.
- Portland & the Tualatin VA Water District Negotiating Again. Editorial by The Oregonian.
- Salem: School Redistricting Plan Ruled Unlawful.
- OR Police Develop Plan to Bolster Highway Patrols.
- Bradbury's Broken Pledge of Neutrality. (Opinion)
- Californians Riding a New Wave Into Oregon. Experts say it's just the start.
- Oregonian Editorial: Not Happy Over Kulongoski's State of the State Speech.
- Survey: Conservatives Happier than Liberals. (By George Will)
- Kropf, Nelson Seek New House Terms.
- Union's County Contract at Impasse - 2 VIEWS.
- Panel Will Investigate Whether Wirth Gave Mom Improper Pay.
- Bid to Kill Campaign Financing Finds Pulse. Petition drive ruled dead last week revives...
- OR Seals Deal On PacifiCorp Buyout.
- Panel Will Take Up Discussion of Security Measures at Capitol.
- Governor's State of the State Speech Claims Progress, but Many Critical of Speech.
- OR SUPREME COURT ORDERS ATTN'Y GEN'L TO REWRITE TITLE OF PARENT NOTIFICATION INITIATIVE.
- Sen. Smith to Be Honored for Federal Support of Psoriatic Disease Legislation.
- Wyden Vows to Fight Bush Over Timber Funds.
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