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- Oregon budget crisis foretells layoffs | statesmanjournal.com
- State agencies will submit proposals for cuts to reach a target estimated at 8 percent of their spending from the tax-supported general fund for the nine months (starting Oct. 1) remaining in the current budget cycle. Proposals will be gathered by state budget officials and posted online; Gov. Ted Kulongoski will review them. The Legislative Emergency Board is scheduled to meet Sept. 22-23 and could make some changes.
- Agent Orange cases may cost billions more
- Because of a possible link to Agent Orange, about 270,000 Vietnam War veterans - more than a quarter of the 1 million receiving disability checks - are being compensated for diabetes, according to Department of Veterans Affairs records.
- The Campbell Case: Reactions to the Recommendation for Firing Frashour | Willamette Week | Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
- News that the Portland police Use of Force Review Board recommended firing Officer Ronald Frashour for the fatal shooting of Aaron Campbell was met with cautious praise from activists today.
- The Campbell Case: Reactions to the Recommendation for Firing Frashour | Willamette Week | Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
- News that the Portland police Use of Force Review Board recommended firing Officer Ronald Frashour for the fatal shooting of Aaron Campbell was met with cautious praise from activists today.
- Oregon Guard suit against KBR goes forward on hexavalent chromium exposure | OregonLive.com
- The decision makes the federal court in Portland the apex of a legal battle that stretches from Oregon to West Virginia, and from Indiana to Texas, over who is responsible for exposing American soldiers to a known cancer-causing chemical early in the Iraq war.
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