Oregon Legal Research BlogCutting public sector budgets is a complex enterprise. Sometime cutting $$ out of a budget means cutting 2, 3, or 20 times the original $$ cut, e.g….
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Religion as Defense in Child Death: Oregon Statute
Sleepy radio listeners have long muttered “WHAT hour?” at radio announcers who say, “it is 10 minutes past the hour.” (Would it be so hard to say,…
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Oregon Legislature: June 2009 Updates
This story in the Statesman Journal is accompanied by a list of the bills “In the Pipeline,” “Still Brewing,” and “In Limbo or Dead”: Measure 57 key to…
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Oregon Constitutional Convention or Task Force?
…convention to come up with a new manuscript to underpin the state’s laws and governmental make-up….…Riley got backing from Willamette University law professor Norman Williams, who said the state constitution…
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Oregon Courts Remain Open on Fridays (except for March 13)
Update: In case you haven’t heard (anyone?), the Oregon Courts will remain open on Fridays, except for Friday, March 13th, 2009. Stories about this are at all…
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Truth, Lies, Polygraphs, Constitutional Rights, Bernie Madoff (and the Oregon Court of Appeals)
Whew. The same week I’ve been thoroughly absorbed by the, what I can truly call thrilling, Harry Markopolos book, “No One Would Listen,” about Markopolos’ 8-year battle…
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Credit Freezes and Credit Reports in Oregon
I was reading the September 2008 Consumer Reports and their story, “ID Leaks: A Surprising Source is Your Government at Work,” reminded me that I wanted to post about…
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Oregon Public Records Law Disclosure and Email
…words Privacy, Confidentiality, and Public Records (and maybe also the word Exemption). Some of you may have already noticed this Warning in emails received from some Oregon government entities: “PUBLIC…
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Oregon Legislature and Redistricting
If it’s Census time, is redistricting far behind? The Oregon Legislature has created a Redistricting website that has lots of useful info….
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Clackamas County’s Four-Day Work Week and Sheriff’s YouTube Debut
…County’s one-year experiment with a four-day work week fares. For some (e.g. commuters), it’s a winner, but not for all: Clackamas County government’s four-day workweek draws protests, by Peter…