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School funding and the Quality Education Model

April 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Legislative Committee Services, Oregon Quality Education Commission, State Legislature

School cuts fuel UPSET uprising
(Portland Tribune, 4/26/2012)
Quality Education Model : final report [PDF] (2010) Oregon Quality Education Commission
Background brief on– quality education model [PDF] (2010) Oregon Legislative Assembly, Legislative Committee Services

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Oregon’s tax kicker

April 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Legislative Revenue Office, State Legislature

Recalling the strange saga of the corporate ‘kicker’ tax rebates (Oregonian, 4/23/2012)
Oregon’s 2% surplus kicker [PDF] (2007) Legislative Revenue Office
Surplus kicker [PDF] (2008) Legislative Revenue Office

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Online schools task force

December 21st, 2011 · No Comments · State Legislature

Online schools panel fizzles without proposal (Statesman Journal, 12/18/2011)
Joint Interim Task Force on Virtual School Governance report [PDF] (2011) Oregon Legislative Assembly, Joint Interim Task Force on Virtual School Governance

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Federal timber payments

November 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Legislative Committee Services

Some Oregon counties may cease to function if federal timber payments end (Oregonian, 11/17/2011)
Counties face dire straits if timber payments end (Register Guard, 11/17/2011)
Secure Rural Schools Act [PDF] (2010), Oregon Legislative Assembly, Legislative Committee Services

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Children and Poverty

November 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Legislative Committee Services

Children First for Oregon reports more children have health care; more also poor and homeless (Oregonian, 11/8/2011)
Oregon Healthy Kids [PDF] (2010), Legislative Committee Services

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Future state agency budgets

August 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Legislative Fiscal Office

Agencies asked to become leaner in coming years (Oregon Capitol News, 8/30/2011)
Compiled Budget Notes 2011 Legislative Session [PDF] (2011), Oregon Legislative Assembly, Legislative Fiscal Office

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Veterans and suicide

August 30th, 2011 · No Comments · State Legislature

The life and death of an Oregon Guardsman illustrates a national tragedy, (The Oregonian, 8/27/2011)
Legislative Task Force on Veterans’ Reintegration : final report, [PDF] (2010), Oregon Legislative Assembly, Legislative Task Force on Veterans’ Reintegration
Unseen injuries : medical information for combat veterans [PDF], (2008) Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs

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2011-2013 budget analysis

February 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Legislative Fiscal Office

Report outlines budget challenge facing lawmakers (Statesman Journal, 1/30/2011)
Analysis of the … current service level (biennial report) Oregon State Legislature, Legislative Fiscal Office

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Oregon’s revenue system

February 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Legislative Revenue Office

Oregon tax burden remains in bottom third of states, new report says (Oregonian, 2/3/2011)
Oregon public finance – basic facts (biennial) Oregon State Legislature, Legislative Revenue Office

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Joint Committee on Justice System Revenues

December 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Joint Interim Committee on State Justice System Revenues

Legislative panel on court fees will meet (Statesman Journal , 11/28/10)

Report to the Joint Interim Committee on State Justice System Revenues [PDF] (2010) Oregon Legislative Assembly, Joint Interim Committee on State Justice System Revenues

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Redistricting

August 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Legislative Committee Services

Court denies request by backers of legislative redistricting initiative (The Oregonian, 7/28/10)
Redistricting petitioners lose (Statesman Journal, 7/28/10)
Basics about redistricting 2011 [PDF] (2010)
Oregon Legislative Assembly, Legislative Committee Services

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Oregon 150

February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Dept. of Forestry, Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries, Forest Resources Institute, History Committee, Legislative Administration Committee

Sesquifarewell (Statesman Journal, 2/14/10)
Oregon on the move: A history of Oregon’s transportation systems [PDF] (2009)
Oregon Department of Transportation, History Committee
Oregon legislative branch history [PDF] (2009)
Oregon State Legislature, Legislative Administration Committee
What do Western Oregon’s forests look like after a century of management? [PDF] (2009)
Oregon Forest Resources Institute
Forests for Oregon (quarterly magazine)
Oregon Department of Forestry
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Oregon State Capitol master plan

August 11th, 2009 · No Comments · State Legislature

Legislators review an earth-shaking price tag (Statesman Journal, 8/3/09)

Oregon State Capitol master plan [PDF] (2009)
Oregon Legislative Assembly

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