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States Must Spend Millions for ID Law
…measures for its driver’s licenses, or the federal government could refuse to recognize Oregon IDs for things like boarding a plane. That’s according to a report from Oregon’s Driver and…
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“Big Money Bought Oregon’s Forests. Small Timber Communities Are Paying The Price” (OPB)
…Oregonian and Lylla Younes, ProPublica, and OPB, June 11, 2020: Excerpts: “…. For decades, politicians, suit-and-tie timber executives and caulk-booted tree fallers alike have blamed the federal government and urban…
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Presidential Action on Access to Justice (Memorandum, 5/18/21)
…branch of government is equipped with its own law making tools (and rules) and avenues of creativity. You can research U.S. Presidential (or gubernatorial at the state level) actions, e.g….
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Executive Order 9066 and the Tides of History
…and the related curfew challenged by Minoru Yasui of Oregon and Gordon Hirabayashi. In all three cases the Supreme Court upheld the right of the government to exclude Japanese Americans…
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Bizarre Holiday Laws
…In Provo, Utah, there is a city ordinance that restricts residents from using a snowball or any object that could be labeled as a “missile,” to inflict damage to other’s…
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Public Records Requests and Locating Wills
…any attempt to get access to a record of a government or public entity. In Oregon, state law provides a broad right of access to records generated by or for…
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Unclaimed Property: A Career Choice?
…“National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators” (NAUPA) and their state affiliates offer these exact same searching services free. These are government offices, not private businesses. They link you…
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Jobs: Oregon Legislature Hiring 30 (temporary) Session Committee Assistants
If you have any interest in how Oregon state government works and would be able to work in Salem during the next Legislative session: “Legislative Administration is recruiting to…
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Directory of Oregon Non-governmental “Policy” Organizations
…the Oregon Blue Book’s list of government organizations. This could be a good starting place for research that crosses organizational lines and could save you time compiling…