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Getty ImagesCommentary By Ron Beasley
Bernie Sanders may be the Senator from Vermont but he is America's Senator.
Sanders is the only member of the Democratic caucus to publicly oppose the Senate legislation, and it’s unclear if he would still vote for cloture but oppose the final bill. Still, Sanders’ objections raise [...]
(Update: link here,)
For too many years, federal regulators turned a blind eye to signs of an impending financial crisis. Tricks and traps proliferated in the credit card and consumer lending industries. Predatory mortgage loans exploded, fueling an [...]
The American Association of University Women - Oregon Board advocates a "YES" vote to maintain the legislatively approved tax increases. The AAUW public policy committee has worked on taxes for many years. The AAUW public policy allows AAUW - Oregon to advocate for fair taxes at every level.
Some bits [...]
Voters in the State of Oregon have about a month to figure out whether or not to support the referendum of Personal and Corporate tax increases passed by the Democrat majority in our last session of the Oregon Legislature.By Dave Anderson:
I've been tough on Altmire and I still think that he faces an uphill battle for re-election as I have a very hard time seeing where he will get his doorknockers to rouse an apathetic Democratic base in a Tea Party friendly district. He has voted against' [...]
Taxes...The Real Reason The M66/67 vote is only seven weeks away and the Oregon Restaurant Association is pulling out all the stops by recruiting volunteers for phone banks in Hillsboro, Tigard, Salem, Bend, Eugene and Medford. Perhaps the ORA is representing big corporate restaurant chains but it is cetainly not representing individual restaurant [...]
By JOHN FORTMEYER, CNNW publisher
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington’s voters have had their say, but the passage of Referendum 71 — which expands the rights of registered domestic same-sex partners, may only be the prelude to continued controversy. The statewide vote [...]
State Senator Fred Girod proposes tort reformLa Gringa Blogicito reports
With a vote of 111 in favor and 14 against, the National Congress of Honduras today overwhelmingly rejected the restitution of Mr. José Manuel Zelaya Rosales to the presidency of the Republic.
Obamama tried to convince the world that the ouster of Zelaya was a coup and [...]
Voting unanimously to renew their contract with Columbia River Correctional Institute, the Council has agreed to continue to use prison inmate labor to clear brush, clean up vagrant camps, and perform other tasks in city parks. The total cost works out to about $15 per hour per supervised worker, although [...]
Taxpayer Association of Oregon NewsThe plot in LetterGate, the effort by the big-corporate-funded campaign to scare and confuse Oregon voters, is getting thicker than churned butterfat.
It began with a letter tobacco- and beer-industry lobbyist Mark Nelson mailed to households in the state with a return address from an abandoned BedMart store in Salem. In [...]
By Evan Manvel of Portland, Oregon. Evan is a long-time environmental advocate and the legislative director for the Oregon League of Conservation Voters. In August, he contributed "The way democracy is supposed to work."
Since junior high school, I've been working to protect the environment - this fragile spaceship we' [...]
Some early polling on the tax increase measures in Oregon is in.
Measure 66: If the election were held today, would you vote yes or no on Measure 66: Raises tax on household income at and above...
[...] Commentary By Ron Beasley
There is an upside to the Rethuglicans pandering to the teabaggers - they are forced to take on the oligarchs represented by The Federal Reserve. Of course it's mostly lip service but something might come of this:
Vitter wants vote on Fed audit before Bernanke voteOf [...]
The House voted today to extend the federal estate tax. But of course, Brian Baird, the supposedly Democratic congressman from the 'Couv, joined all 174 Republicans in voting against it. His good buddy Lars Larson will no doubt be proud.
No estate tax, no stock transactions tax, no health' [...] 
