How much would you be willing to spend to buy parkland that would ban your dog? Metro hopes Portland area taxpayers will spend $475 million to buy land kept from public use for many years. That’s the purpose of a Metro bond measure on the ballot in November. Much of the new tax money would […]
Oregonians will have the opportunity in January to vote No on Ballot Measure 101, thus rejecting new taxes that the state legislature and the governor tried to impose on health insurance premiums and hospital services. While these and other taxes are meant to shore up state funding of Medicaid services to low-income Oregonians, it has […]
Sometimes the arrogance of the Multnomah County Commissioners has no bounds. Case in appoint is Measure 26-183 which would give the commissioners the power to control who is going to be the Sheriff. This way if there is any opposition to what they want they can terminate the Sheriff at will and find another one […]
