edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
The Senate may vote as soon as Saturday on health care reform. The New York Times reports:
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in the Senate on Wednesday unveiled their proposal for overhauling the health care system, outlining legislation that they said would cover most of the uninsured while reducing the [...]
Ninety percent of Oregon's budget goes to schools, health care and public safety. But another critical piece -- and one of the reasons the Oregon League of Conservation Voters is strongly behind the campaign for Measures 66 and 67 -- is that the January ballot measures will directly impact Oregon's ability [...]
Over at the Cook Political Report, they've done their baseline report on the U.S. Senate race in 2010. Key excerpts:
Oregon is very difficult terrain for Republicans. Democrats hold an 11-point advantage in voter registration, 43 percent to 32 percent, while another 26 percent are unaffiliated. Republicans lost a Senate' [...]By John Ballard
OFA (Organizing For America) had a contest to select an amateur video to promote health care reform using paid advertising. The contest energized the base, then from among twenty finalists one entry was selected by voting. In order for one's vote to be counted it was necessary to' [...]
Visit the new Yes on Measures 66 & 67 website at [www.voteyesfororegon.org] .
[...]We lost that vote, but it’s not over!
[...]
Phil Keisling served as Oregon Secretary of State from 1991 to 1999 and is most famous for having championed the state’s vote-by-mail system. Now, he is turning his attention to the impending crisis in Oregon’s Public Employee Retirement System, known as PERS. His 54-page memo is called [...]
OPB is quoting Mayor Sam Adams threatening to vote no on the Regional Transportation Plan unless we can get project-by-project analysis of climate change impacts (against a context of an RTP that predicts a 50% increase in GHG emissions by 2035).
Metro is taking the position that such analysis would [...]
In Oregon, we can be proud that all four of our Democratic members of the U.S. House voted for the health care reform bill - and against the terrible, awful, no-good, very bad Stupak amendment. There are only eight other states with a similar 100% record among their [...]
CNN Money study shows that Oregon is one of ten states in Financial trouble.
Oregon: Oregon’s leading industries, such as timber and computer-chip manufacturing, have been hit hard in the recession. Lawmakers have approved more than $1 billion in new taxes to keep it afloat. But voters in January will [...]
Over the next four years, Oregonians will face $2.6 billion in new taxes. That’s an average of $1,750 in additional state taxes per household.
In January 2010, Oregonians will vote on ballot measures that will raise personal income taxes' [...]
Portland & Keizer eyeballing additional telecom taxes without public vote
By Pac-Tech Alliance,
Both citing declining revenue from traditional wireline taxes the cities of Portland and Keizer have announced they are considering additional taxes on wireless telecommunications and other utilities without a public vote (even though [...]
By Traci Scot, Oregon Faith Reporter
It was mixed results for two highly-touted gay-rights measures in states on opposite ends of the country.
In Washington, voters approved Referendum 71, also referred to as the “everything but marriage” law, which expands rights for domestic partners. It was the first [...]
By Dave Anderson:
Something that I wrote in December 2007 that I saw while looking for another post, but is very relevant today: (I did not get all of this right, I forgot about the agenda setting power of not scheduling floor votes on horrendous bills, but Stupak-Pitts is the [...]
Joining the Republicans to vote no on health care reform: Brian Baird, the Democrat from the Lars Larson Show. [...] 
Congressman Greg Walden, Nancy Pelosi led the democratics to pass the House version of comprehensive government health care.
Naturally, Oregon's democratics voted along with her.
Here is what Sid Leiken has to say about it:
Government takeover of Healthcare has long been one of DeFazio’s signature issues. The fact that he was one of the [...]
"But Bush stole the election."
