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A November ballot measure that would remove the $5,600 limit on federal income taxes that can be deducted on Oregon tax returns would cost the state budget $1.1 billion to $2.4 billion every two years, according to new estimates.
SALEM, (AP) — Oregon elections officials say some out-of-state voter registration forms arriving in the mail are causing confusion.
SALEM (AP) — Oregon Democrats are raising eyebrows over Rep. Karen Minnis’ dual roles as a legislator and a campaign consultant and the use of campaign dollars. Minnis, a skilled fundraiser and former speaker of the Oregon House, is not running again and has lots of them left over.
PORTLAND (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to the Oregon domestic partnership law approved by the Legislature last year.
Washington voters will conduct a statewide experiment at the polls Tuesday that supporters hope will become the way Oregon voters select candidates in general elections.
SALEM (AP) — U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith’s frozen foods processing company faces a potential state fine for discharging wastewater from its Eastern Oregon plant into a nearby creek, the most recent of several spills at the plant.
SALEM — Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s Oregon campaign says it will continue its push to sign up new voters for the November election, an effort that could help produce the largest number of voters ever registered for an Oregon election.
Opponents of proposed liquefied natural gas terminals and pipelines in Clatsop County have asked Oregon's secretary of state to investigate what they believe are "illegal push polls" urging voters to vote in favor of the projects in an upcoming election.
investigation of a 'push poll' Opponents of proposed liquefied natural gas terminals and pipelines in Clatsop County have asked Oregon's secretary of state to investigate what they believe are "illegal push polls" urging voters to vote in favor of the projects in an upcoming election.
In a process that one county commissioner called a “loaded deck” and another chastised as being “sad,” two county commissions approved Tuesday afternoon the four-month appointment of Republican Matt Wingard to Oregon House District 26. But it wasn’t before two ...
With new comment from Smith Frozen Foods attorney Tom Lindley and Sen. Gordon Smith’s spokeswoman below. For the second time in about a year, wastewater from the frozen-foods plant owned and operated in Eastern Oregon by the family of U.S. Sen Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) overflowed into a nearby creek in violation of state environmental regulations. Smith Frozen Foods, a multimillion dollar operation, ...
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