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Imagine you’re driving down the road and see a large pothole up ahead. Would you run over it and risk
Those looking for an emergency to justify this month’s “special session” by the Oregon Legislative Assembly need search no more.
With SB 1090, the Oregon legislature will address mortgage lending reform during the 2008 special session. As legislators take up
As the Oregon legislature prepares to consider stronger regulation of the mortgage loan industry, a new analysis by the Oregon
Years ago, facing legal and political pressure for marketing cancer sticks to youth, R.J. Reynolds put out to pasture its
After years of calling the state lottery “a bad tax on people with a poor understanding of statistics,” the Oregon
While the tentative deal reached yesterday between the White House and House leaders on an economic stimulus package contains laudable
The poverty line inched up today with the federal government’s release of the 2008 Federal Poverty Income Guidelines, affecting eligibility
Whenever the subject of tax reform comes up in Oregon, the idea of reducing or eliminating the income tax on
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