The City Club of Portland has released a new report: The Future of Money in Oregon Politics: Recommendations for policymakers (January 6, 2021).
They have made it available in front of their paywall so you can read it without being a City Club member. (Thank you to City Club members!)
City Club research tip: Portland State University has a collection of City Club of Portland 1920-2007 reports via PDX Scholar.)
The owls and the tree huggers weren’t to blame after all (surprise, surprise):
“Big Money Bought Oregon’s Forests. Small Timber Communities Are Paying The Price,” by Tony Schick, The Oregonian and Lylla Younes, ProPublica, and OPB, June 11, 2020:
Excerpts:
The Oregonian’s 4-part series (starting 2/22/19) on money in Oregon politics:
Polluted by Money: How corporate cash corrupted one of the greenest states in America:
Part One of Four was published on Feb. 22, 2019.
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