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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.
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say they’re hopeful that parliamentary elections will be held in Iraq in January and that U.S. combat forces can be withdrawn by August 2010.
ONTARIO — When Oregon voters secure their ballots in January, they will face some stark choices when deciding whether to vote on proposed tax increases regarding personal income and corporations approved by the 2009 Legislature.
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.
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say they’re hopeful that parliamentary elections will be held in Iraq in January and that U.S. combat forces can be withdrawn by August 2010.
SALEM (AP) — A congressional candidate in Oregon has been fined $2,250 for unlawfully converting campaign money to personal use.
PORTLAND — 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.
SALEM — Conservative initiative activist and Oregon gubernatorial candidate Bill Sizemore has been indicted for tax evasion, the state Department of Justice announced Monday The grand jury indictment, unsealed last week and made public Monday, resulted from charges filed against Sizemore, 58, and his wife, Cindy Sizemore, 49, both residents …
Oregon's U.S. senators, in the middle of a two-day trip to Iraq, said Monday that they are optimistic that parliamentary elections still can be held in time to allow the scheduled withdrawal of U.S. combat troops by August 2010.
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.