Inmates at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution stitched hundreds of miniature state flags. When the Oregon Legislature convened last week for the 2013 session, lawmakers found them planted on the corner of their desk.
Kitzhaber said Nike approached the state saying they want to expand operations in Oregon, but they need certain guarantees that current tax structures won’t change, which could hurt their investment.
Key legislative leaders have agreed not to close prisons or cut funding for schools, but a compromise budget plan would lay off State Police detectives and further tighten the belt on safety-net programs for needy families.
Economists say Oregon will take in $35 million less than was projected three months ago, an amount that isn't likely to require cuts beyond those recommended by key legislators last week.
Senate President Peter Courtney and Co-Speakers Bruce Hanna and Arnie Roblan said the portrait was removed from the capitol out of respect for the former Oregon governor's sexual abuse victim, who recently passed away.
Changes to Oregon's kicker law should have bipartisan support, the state Senate's top leader said Monday as lawmakers held their first hearings on modifying the popular tax program to save for tough budget times.
From a press release
The Oregon House of Representatives Tuesday unanimously passed House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 10, honoring the University of Oregon football team on their outstanding 2010 season, which ended with an undefeated regular season...
The medical records room on the Oregon State Hospital campus looks exactly as it sounds: like a records room. But what it holds represents so much more.
Hospital officials are hoping a new online list will help them reunite living relatives with the forgotten patients and prison inmates who died at Oregon State Hospital between 1914 and the 1970s.