Oregon: Oregon House

The Oregon House gave final approval to the $855 million budget rebalancing plan on Thursday that gets the state through the last four months of this budget year. The 37-22 vote split largely among predictable partisan lines, but there were...

Sometimes all the law needs is a little more common sense. And sometimes it gets it. Back in December 2007, Jim Brunberg of Missississippi Studios called to ask for help. His intimate music venue and recording studio in my Oregon House District was being audited by the Oregon Employment Department. A quirk in the law required him to pay unemployment insurance for musicians that played in his venue if the music contract did not clearly indicate who was responsible for unemployment insurance taxes. From an OPB story in December 2007: Before Jim Brunberg got in this fight with the Oregon...

The Oregon House Majority Office just released a statement declaring that the House has passed the state stimulus bill (I'll link to it here as soon as I see it up on the lege website):The House voted today to pass a $174 million job stimulus and investment package. The package, now ready for the Governor’s signature, will immediately stimulate the economy by creating up to 3,000 jobs, and contains long term investments in Oregon’s future by supplying funds for much needed upgrades at the state’s centers of higher learning. The plan, designed by Democratic leaders of the Senate and House,...

The question is: Will the press in Oregon let the citizen's know there is an alternative to the "borrowing" plan that is offered by the Democrats and Sens. David Nelson/Jackie Winters?

On Tuesday we...