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  • Oregon Governor Pens Joint Letter Calling For An End To The Violence In Portland

    09/04/2020 7:44:14 AM PDT · by EBH · 90 replies
    KXL Portland ^ | 90302020
    PORTLAND, Ore. — In a short letter issued Thursday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown said it was time elected officials and community leaders come together to condemn the acts in violence in Portland. The letter mentions there is no place for white supremacy or vigilantism in Oregon, but fails to mention the attacks on police or arson fires set by demonstrators inside occupied buildings including the building where Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler lives. The letter is signed by Mayor Wheeler and City Commissioner Amanda Fritz. City Commissioners Jo Ann Hardesty and Chloe Eudaly did not sign the letter. Newly elected Multnomah...
  • Oregon's Senate Democrats lack votes to pass controversial climate bill, chamber's leader says

    06/25/2019 11:17:33 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 26 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 25 2019 | Vandana Rambaran
    An Oregon climate change bill that prompted 12 Republican lawmakers to flee the Statehouse in Salem last week has hit yet another snag: Senate President Peter Courtney, a Democrat, announced Tuesday that the chamber did not have enough votes to pass the legislation. The cap-and-trade program intended to rein in industrial carbon emissions lost traction even with the state's Democratic senators, according to Courtney, sparking protesters who were initially demanding that Republicans return to the floor for a vote to begin chanting "Peter Courtney's got to go." "I've done as much as I can, and I'll continue to try," Courtney...