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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
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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
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At a time when the cost of food and other essentials has been on the rise, our nation’s most important
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A big increase in union membership would go a long way in fixing what’s wrong with the economy, according to
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