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OREGON STATE WORKER UNION PACTS COME IN 42 MILL OVER BUDGET
September 23, 2011Frustrated Republican legislators are accusing Governor Kitzhaber’s negotiating team of giving away the store in labor contract talks. The state budget was 3.5 billion dollars in the hole to start with last session, so legislators hoped to hold the line on salaries and benefits for unionized state workers. But legislators don’t negotiate with state worker unions, which strongly backed Kitzhaber for Governor—the Governor’s office negotiates the salary and benefit deal with the unions that heavily financed his campaign. The deal hikes the total cost to the state for its unionized workers by about seven and a half percent….and it came in 42 million dollars over budget. A spokesman for the Governor called the deal ‘a reasonable settlement’. The ‘reasonable settlement’–42 million dollars over budget–coupled with news that recession-battered state revenues are already 200 million dollars short of budget estimates may force legislators to cut further into state programs when they meet in February.
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Elizabeth Warren “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own”
September 22, 2011 -
GOVERNOR KITZHABER REWARDS A DEM INSIDER
September 21, 2011Governor Kitzhaber has named a Democratic Party insider from Eugene to a newly-created job in his office. Democratic political campaign war-room strategist Dan Carol will be Kitzhaber’s Director of Multi-state Issues, at an annual salary of more than 110-thousand dollars. Kitzhaber says the Party insider worked on campaigns for Bill Clinton, Ron Wyden, Barak Obama, and, of course, he was a key member of the Kitzhaber campaign. Carol will work with other states to develop Oregon jobs–keying in on green industries. Carol has limited private business experience, but he founded or worked with several Environmentalist groups, and has been a Party power-player in Oregon since the 1990’s.
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Obama Flubs Photo Op by Waving
September 21, 2011 -
IT’S A PARTY ON THE INTERNET–A POLITICAL PARTY
September 20, 2011A group of millionaires is financing a new internet start-up–they’re starting up a third political party. The group “Americans Elect” is launching a petition drive this week in Oregon to make the state’s 2012 Presidential ballot. The group plans to nominate candidates for President and Vice President entirely online, and run them against the two major party candidates in 2012. “Americans Elect” has already qualified for the ballot in six states, and says it has enough signatures for a seventh–California. Internet advocates say the group could blow open the U.S. political process, as Amazon did to book selling, and as the Apple I-pod changed the music industry.
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NASA’s New Space Launch System
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OREGON–THE BEAVER STATE LONG BEFORE IT WAS A STATE
September 19, 2011The Bureau of Land Management says a fossil found by employees is the oldest known beaver fossil ever found in North America. The beaver buck teeth found in northeastern Oregon are believed to be about seven million years old. The earliest beaver fossils ever found were in Germany–about twelve million years old. Scientists say beavers waddled their way across Asia and crossed the Bering Strait land bridge to Oregon.
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OREGON FURLOUGH DAYS
September 15, 2011Friday, Sep 16th is the first statewide employee furlough day of the new biennium. Most state offices will be closed. DMV and a few other agencies say you can do some simple business on line. State employees get a three-day weekend, but their Friday is not paid. The furlough days are a budget-reducing compromise negotiated with state worker unions. State offices will be open as usual Monday.
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“You don’t deserve to keep all your money” says Democratic Rep Schakowsky
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WHY DO DRUGGIES AND THIEVES DO THE DUMB THINGS THEY DO IN PUBLIC TO HELP THEM GET CAUGHT??? THE GENIUSES IN THIS STORY ARE, OF COURSE, INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
September 14, 2011Albany Police got a call from a local department store saying a man was observed stuffing clothing under the garden center fence–perhaps planning to pick it up later. The would-be shoplifter thought he was acting normally, crouching at the base of the chain link fence by the pots of petunias and stuffing things underneath, but he soon learned that he’d been busted, and he bolted–took off in a blue car with two other people. Albany Police quickly caught up with the car, which had been stolen in Eugene. A search of the car turned up methamphetamine. Justin Clifford, Crystallynn Medina, and Casey Lynn Morris were arrested for–among other things–car theft and drug possession.
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Chuck Woolery On taxing the rich
September 13, 2011 -
OREGON REPUBLICANS TRY A MOVE TO THE CENTER
September 13, 2011Oregon Republicans have decided to embrace an idea proposed by younger Republicans at the annual platform gathering in Bend. Their idea is to make the 2012 election about the economy and jobs–and back off from platform language that denounced same sex couples–even those in civil unions–as unfit parents. The idea was controversial, but it passed a floor vote by a thin majority after a lively debate. The Oregon GOP platform has now been stripped of its objections to civil unions, and same sex partners as parents. Republicans kept language in the platform that calls for limiting marriage to one man and one woman.
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Watch the full 9/7/11 GOP Debate
September 8, 2011 -
New NBC Poll about the direction of the country
September 7, 2011 -
Hoffa Threatens Tea Party
September 6, 2011 -
A-10C Warthog in Action (A-10 Thunderbolt)
September 6, 2011 -
Man Faces 75 Years in Prison for recording Police
September 1, 2011 -
Al Sharpton at his Best
August 31, 2011
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