Mark your calendars, make new friends, learn new research skills at the:
Third Annual Oregon Archives Crawl
Saturday, October 6, 2012
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Free and Open to the Public
Visit Oregon’s One Stop Business Portal, whether you are thinking about starting a business in Oregon, need to research permits and licenses, want to pay your taxes, need financing for your business, or need to find answers to dozens of other questions business owners have (except, perhaps, what happened to the missing “e” in “xpress”).
Consumers have business websites, too:
Neil Armstrong, his predecessors, and his successors hold a permanent spot in the hearts of many of us who dreamed the “I could be an astronaut!” dream and remember the tragedies and triumphs of our outer space pioneers, whether they wielded slide rules at ground control or landing gear on spaceships or died in the pursuit of knowledge, adventure, and a chance to touch the stars.
Governor Kitzhaber orders flags at half-staff in honor of Neil Armstrong.
“DEATH OF NEIL ARMSTRONG, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION
A Law dot com news feed article: “Skadden Associate, Herself a Rape Victim, Dives into Akin Fray,” by Brian Baxter, Am Law Daily, 8/22/12, got me wondering about Oregon’s law:
“…. Prewitt says that 31 states have not yet adopted special laws that restrict the ability of rapists to assert their custodian and visitation rights to a child born through rape. The other 19 states—Delaware, Oregon, and Pennsylvania have added protections since the publication of Prewitt’s law review article in 2010—have laws that restrict the access of rapists to the children they fathered….” [Link to full Law dot com article.]
If you search the ORS (Oregon Revised Statutes) Index, under Sex Offenses-Rape, you will be referred to these sections, which today read as follows, but please, talk to an attorney if you need legal advice!
The Oregon voter registration deadline for the November 2012 election is: October 16, 2012
Visit the Oregon Secretary of State OregonVotes dot org website for links to online registration, registration sites, information about the November ballot, and much more.
Or, visit your county election office.
If you read the Aug. 22, 2012, Willamette Week story, “Barred: A top Lewis & Clark law student committed a sex crime involving a 13-year-old boy. Now he wants the school to take him back,” you might find the following Gallagher Blogs post apropos.
Law schools and bar associations do on occasion accept and license law students and lawyers (respectively) who have criminal records. (I have blogged before about “redemption,” and you can find other stories in the news.)
We are thrilled to report that the new (fifth) edition of the one and only “Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook” is available for purchase (and soon to be available at local libraries, too).
Visit the Nonprofit Association of Oregon for lots more Oregon nonprofit informatin.
Oregon dot gov website designers and content writers are updating the portal. They want your input:
A link to the Survey is available at the Oregon dot gov homepage, under this heading (as of today): “Help us improve the Oregon.gov state portal!”
“Reminder — Oregon State Courts Closed Friday, August 17, for Mandatory Furlough
Oregon state courts and their offices will be closed Friday, August 25, 2012, because of budget cuts. All statewide court closure dates for 2011-13 legal holidays and mandated furlough days are posted here. Some courts also have limited public access hours to address staff cutbacks.”
Jack Ohman wants to kickstart the Oregon Secretary of State’s Blue Book Cover Photo Contest (and don’t we all follow the journey of OR7, the wolf formerly known as OR-7!)
Photo Contest Open for 2013-14 Oregon Blue Book
“Amateur photographers may submit photos for the front and back cover
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