The corporate-funded opposition to Measure 97 doesn’t seem to care about facts and consistency. Case in point: an op-ed in
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We’ve been getting lots of questions from folks about Measure 97 at presentations and by phone and email, and rightly
Clueless. Absolutely clueless. Someone — it's not clear exactly who — had the idea of bringing Kansas Governor Sam Brownback
It was 2009. The Great Recession had hammered Oregon’s finances. The Oregon legislature faced a choice. It could slash the
You wouldn’t know it from the industry’s campaign spending, but the odds are remote that Oregon restaurant and lodging facilities
This November, Oregonians will face a clear choice: Vote "YES" for Measure 97 or endure more than a billion dollars
Oregon schools are in dire need of additional resources, and they will have fewer resources still if Comcast gets its
Several weeks ago the Oregon legislature’s economists in the Legislative Revenue Office (LRO) came out with an estimate of how
Corporations today pay far less in Oregon taxes than they used to — an outcome that did not arrive by
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