Here’s a note from Ellen Pinney of the Oregon Health Action Campaign. The Oregon Health Plan Standard reservation list is open! In one week over 41,164 people have signed up in hopes that they will be one of the lucky 10,000 people who will be able to enroll in Oregon Health Plan Standard because their [...]

STATEWIDE CALL TO ACTION “NO LNG IN OREGON” WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 11 AM TO 2 PM CAPITOL STEPS, SALEM Our friends at LNGPollutes.org hope you will join them to say NO to high risk gas terminals and pipelines and land condemnation! For more info on LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) in Oregon, please visit the Onward [...]

Must see: in just a few minutes of Flash video, Annie Leonard breaks down our consumer society into its various parts. She makes it all fun and easy to follow, while at the same time creating a powerful indictment of the modern American lifestyle. Watch it and tell your friends and family: www.StoryofStuff.com

Today, the AP reported on our Gov’s status regarding LNG terminals, storage facilities and pipelines (see below). To learn more about this item, please see our action alert. Governor open to liquefied natural gas plants Kulongoski says Oregon could benefit from them The Associated Press November 30, 2007 ASTORIA — Gov. Ted Kulongoski is open [...]

Steve Law, reporter for the Salem Statesman-Journal, has written a great article separating fact from fiction around Measure 50, the Healthy Kids Plan funding measure. This is another example of that newspaper’s excellent coverage of state issues. The article can be found online here and I’ve quoted it below.

In an article in today’s Salem Statesman-Journal, reporter Steve Law outlines some of the measures we might see on the 2008 ballot:

In the words of French writer Joseph Joubert, “It is better to debate a question without settling it, than to settle a question without debating it.” On Friday the Oregon legislature decided to settle the question of comprehensive health care reform without debating it. We were informed this afternoon by Representative Mary Nolan that the [...]

This is just in from our friend Emily Kintzer of the Bus Project. The Rubber Hits the Road Award: The Wheelie for Outstanding Public Interest Achievement What has been the most innovative public policy accomplishment to hit Oregon in the twenty-first century (so far)? The 1970′s brought land use planning; the 1990′s produced Death with [...]

Here’s something from Jeff Holmes, our correspondent in Banks, Oregon. It’s a letter he wrote to the Seattle regional office of the Federal Aviation Authority. To the FAA: This letter is in regards to the comment period for possible changes in the operations of the Portland International Airport. My concern with the commercial activities at [...]

I live near Corbett, Oregon. Most of the area is either in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area or in the exclusive-farm-use or forest zones of Oregon’s statewide land-use planning system. Many good friends and neighbors are frightened by the extensive number of Measure 37 development claims and feel like they will be surrounded [...]