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WHY?

Voters are smart (and have smart children)
Voters are mysterious and intriguing.
Voters are fun (and sometimes even funny)
Voters are good citizens.
Voters care about the future.
Voters care about other people.
Voters sleep well at night.
Voters have a spring in their steps.
Voters are on the side of the angels.
Voters are [you fill in the blank all you wonderful voters]

HOW?

1) Oregon election information (don’t forget Ballotpedia!)

2) Can I Vote? dot org (should you vote? YES!)

3) USA dot Gov, Voters and Elections

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Robert Ambrogi, at his Law Sites blog, writes on 10/28/10, about the interesting (to put it mildly) results of a survey of state courts and judges: Survey: Judges Split on Their Use of Social Media

For example: “Appointed judges are far less likely than elected judges to use social media. Of judges who run for competitive election, 66.7% use social media, while of judges who never run for election, just 8.8% use social media…” (link to full post)

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Sent to me by a favorite lawyer library-patron:

20 Heroic Librarians Who Save the World

There are also flesh and blood librarian heroes, some of whom you can read about in this book – and they are almost as much fun, and as ornery, as the comic books ones:

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Who appoints the Circuit Court Presiding Judges?

Read the Statute: ORS 1.003 (and always check the index and the annotations for more)

Experienced lawyers tell new lawyers this all the time: Read the Statute!

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Finding a qualified, licensed, affordable, and available in-home caregiver is almost a full-time job in itself, as anyone who has tried to do this knows well.

The best place to begin your research is with the: State of Oregon Home Care Commission and their Consumer / Employer Tools website.

Their contact information is:

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It’s never too soon to note this on your mind’s calendar:

November 7, 2010: First Sunday in November at 2 a.m. (local time).

Clocks must be moved back one hour (use it or lose it – or just lose it – sigh).

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Law dot gov is sponsoring a contest. Legal Research Plus has a post to the links you need to bring yourself up to Law dot Gov speed: Law.gov Report Contest

Law dot gov is a Government Website Work in Progress and the tireless founders and contributors include the self-employed, law school employees, professional association employees, or other government entity employees (e.g. public law librarians).

If you want to read about the Law dot Gov Contest, and about law dot gov, visit the Law dot gov site at public resource dot org and the Law dot Gov Google Group.

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This is a follow-up to my previous post about researching the history of an ORCP rule. (And thank you again to the staff at the Oregon Council on Court Procedures!)

Rules of civil procedure are promulgated in December of even-numbered years, submitted to the legislature at the beginning of the (odd-numbered year) legislative session, and become effective January 1 of the following EVEN-NUMBERED year. So the rules that we promulgate at our December 11, 2010, meeting will be looked at by the legislature in 2011 and will become effective January 1, 2012.

Statutory authority of the Council is found in ORS 1.735.”

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