The Oregon Secretary of State has posted the various arguments in favor and in opposition to ballot measures 49 and 50 online. Beaver Boundary has compiled a list of the various individuals and groups who wrote statements for or against Healthy Kids. Some of the notable endorsements in favor of the measure: Oregon Pediatric Society, Children First for Oregon, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, American Lung Association of Oregon, Oregon Nurses Association, Nurse Practitioners of Oregon, Governor Ted Kulongoski, Oregon AFL-CIO, Stand for Children, Oregon Business Association Those against Healthy Kids include: Oregonians Against the Blank Check,...

Breaking News- The Boards of Commissioners from Multnomah and Washington Counties, meeting jointly, have just appointed former representative Mark Hass to represent District 14 in the Oregon Senate. Hass will serve out the remaining term of former senator Ryan Deckert, who is now president of the centrist Oregon Business Association. Hass has also [...]

Many are surprised to see that Presidential Candidate John Edwards will be brought to Oregon by the Oregon Business Association on October 9th. Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor Bill Richardson are widely viewed as the more business friendly candidate of the Democratic Presidential candidates. In fact, Edwards is one of the few candidates on the campaign trail to come out and advocate for a massive tax increase on higher income wage earners and an "excess" tax for certain businesses. Even the Willamette Week found it bizarre.


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This just in from the Washington County bureau of the Boundary: Washington County and Multnomah County commissioners will hold a joint meeting in the afternoon of November 20 to appoint the successor to former Sen. Ryan Deckert, who resigned Oct. 28 to serve full-time as President of the Oregon Business Association. The two Boards of [...]

Oregon Environmental Council: Transportation and Sustainable Communities with Governor Kulongoski
Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom,
777 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Portland
Friday, April 11, 2008
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Cost: $35 general, $25 OEC members, non-profits, government
Event description: Transportation produces one-third of Oregon's climate-changing greenhouse gases. Solving transportation problems is a priority for the Oregon Legislature, though greatly reducing emissions and congestion poses a major challenge. This event explores the role of business in building a congestion-busting, low-carbon, community-oriented transportation system. Governor Kulongoski presents his vision for integrating climate change and sustainability into Oregon's transportation plans, and is joined by OR Rep. Arnie Roblan, WA Rep. David Upthegrove, and Ryan Deckert of Oregon Business Association.
Event type: OPB Standard Event
Ticket phone: 503-222-1963 ext 100
Ticket web link: www.oeconline.org/economy/bizforum/2008
More info:: www.oeconline.org/economy/bizforum/2008

OK, gang, we gotta hand it to the Oregon Business Council, the Oregon council of the American Electronics Association, the Oregon chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business, the Oregon Business Association, the Software Association of Oregon and even AOI. They have come out for using the corporate kicker (at least this year) to help create a rainy day fund. They didn't have to do that. They could have been like Bono and called for state government to create a rainy day fund with someone else's money. AOI would never have dreamed of such a thing ten years ago....

One of the biggest sticking points in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) has been the question of "Scope" -- which emissions get included in the cap and trade program. Most public interest organizations argue for a broad cap that includes all the major sources of emissions that can be reliably measured and regulated. (Sightline's argued this here, here, here, and here.) And the biggest source of emssions, of course -- the biggest by far -- is transportation fuel.

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Despite the approval of Measure 49, Oregon's land-use issues are not yet fully resolved. In fact, the system still needs to be studied and changed. The Oregon Business Association, after an extensive analysis, supported Measure 49, but it was not a unanimous decision. Those who opposed it, and many of those who voted to support it, did so believing that whether it passed or failed Oregon's land-use debate would continue. As a result, the OBA board also unanimously endorsed a return to the "Big Look" land-use review, for which funding was withdrawn in the last legislative session.