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Oregon Legislature: What is a Committee Pony?
can find Committee Ponies (or is that Ponys’ ?) at the excellent OLIS service from the Oregon State Legislature. It won’t eliminate the need for complicated legislative history research for…
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Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #11 (Article II, Sections, 18-24, Suffrage and Elections)
“the legislative assembly shall provide.” (1) Every public officer in Oregon is subject, as herein provided, to recall by the electors of the state or of the electoral district from…
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Oregon History Buff, Writer, or Researcher? Open House at the State Archives (in Salem)
If you’ve never visited the Oregon State Archives , here’s your chance to go behind the scenes. Most of these documents are not online and may never be…
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3rd Annual Oregon Archives Crawl, October 6, 2012
to the Public This year the archivists are paying tribute to the 100th anniversary of Oregon women winning the right to vote by highlighting women in history. There is…
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Oregon Cannabis Laws: 2014 Measure 91 & 2015 HB 3400, Diced, Sliced, and Shredded
When Oregon Laws are codified*, they can be scattered all over their corresponding legislative subject compilation, the Oregon Revised Statutes, so, unless you are a researcher with too much…
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The 1935 Fire that Burned the Oregon State Capitol
find photos and information from the Oregon State Library’s “The 1935 Fire and its Aftermath” website and also at the Oregon State Capitol Wikipedia page and at the Salem History webpage….
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Oregon Constitution on “Vacancy in office of Governor”
Line of succession is governed by the Oregon Constitution. (Note: Oregon does not have a Lieutenant Governor.) See also Wikipedia and Ballotpedia (and this one) and Secretary of State on…
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Where to Find Superseded Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) and the Oregon Bulletin
…of first page of the first Oregon Administrative Rule Bulletin, from May 1, 1958. Thank you to all the librarians who helped me compile this grid! And remember, It’s Not…
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Oregon History Nights: Beavers v. Ducks Sports Rivalries and Monroe Sweetland
I bet you don’t see those two subjects in the same sentence very often! The Oregon Encyclopedia (The OE), an online resource of Oregon history and culture, is partnering…