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Ashland, Oregon is a town known for an annual Shakespeare Festival, its free thinkers and increasingly...nudity. The city council has been grappling with the issue of public nudity ever since a woman moved there from California several years ago.
Oregon’s Chip Kelly was named the Pac-10 coach of the year after guiding the Ducks to the Rose Bowl in his first season, while Oregon State placed a conference-leading seven players on the first team in voting by the league’s coaches announced Monday.
Although not of his own doing, John Minnis entered Oregon politics on the coattails of controversy. Minnis was appointed to Oregon’s District 20 House seat in 1985 after voters recalled Republican Pat Gillis, who admitted to falsifying letters of support as well as his résumé. Despite the ...
Chip Kelly, who led the University of Oregon to the Pac-10 Conference title and the Rose Bowl in his first season as a head coach, was named the Pac-10 coach of the year Monday, based on voting by the league’s coaches. Under Kelly’s guidance, the Ducks went 8-1 in league …
Chip Kelly, who led the University of Oregon to the Pac-10 title and the Rose Bowl in his first year as a head coach, was named the Pac-10 coach of the year Monday, based on voting by the league’s coaches. Oregon running back LaMichael James was named offensive freshman of …
SALEM, Ore. -- A new, 100-page report released by the state of Oregon details potential budget cuts if two tax measures are not passed in a January 26, 2010 special election. Measures 66 and 67 would raise taxes on businesses and high-income households. Proponents of the pair of tax measures say they will generate $733 million dollars in revenue. If those tax measures fail, a wide range of ...
PORTLAND — Oregon’s four actively campaigning candidates for governor made their first joint appearance Thursday, offering different approaches to their shared commitment to job creation and growing the green economy. The event was civil throughout, with the only sharp-edged comment coming in the closing minutes when Bill Bradbury took a …
NORTH BEND — The North Bend School District says it will cut six days from its school calendar and forgo improving salaries and benefits for teachers, unless Oregon voters pass two tax hike ballot measures.
SALEM (AP) — Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley say they’re hopeful that parliamentary elections will be held in Iraq in January and that U.S. combat forces can be withdrawn by August 2010.
PORTLAND (AP) — Supporters of a $733 million tax package aimed at corporations and wealthy Oregonians say they are pleased with an Oregon Supreme Court ruling that made only slight changes in ballot measure wording. Opponents of the tax increase the Legislature approved last summer gathered enough signatures to force a referendum vote in a January special election. Pat McCormick, spokesman for ...
PORTLAND (AP) — Supporters of a $733 million tax package aimed at corporations and wealthy Oregonians say they are pleased with an Oregon Supreme Court ruling that made only slight changes in ballot measure wording. Opponents of the tax increase the Legislature approved last summer gathered enough signatures to force a referendum vote in a January special election. Pat McCormick, spokesman for ...