An easy guide to Oregon's new congressional map - The Oregonian, February 10, 2012By Jeff Mapes Mark Friesen, one of our crack online experts at The Oregonian, has come up with a great interactive map that -- for the first time -- easily shows how Oregon's five congressional distr... Read MoreOregon environmentalists' timber proposal doesn't make sense - Salem Statesman Journal, February 8, 2012Here is a draft of Wednesday’s editorial: It’s disappointing that some environmental groups prefer higher taxes to increased logging on federal land in Western Oregon. Oregon Wild, Sierra Club, Geos ... Read MoreBill to protect hens deserves support - Salem Statesman Journal, February 6, 2012Plan mandates larger cages for egg-laying birds Americans care how their food is produced. They want animals treated humanely and farmers treated fairly. A bill in Congress, sponsored by Oregon Rep. ... Read MoreThe Combative Caucus Thins Ranks in House - Roll Call, February 6, 2012By Jessica Brady Some of the most combative House Democrats will be gone from the chamber next year, leaving the Caucus without its more outspoken liberal and fiscally conservative Members. Rep. Heat... Read MoreAt loggershead again - Mail Tribune, February 5, 2012A forest plan from three congressmen sounds good to all but environmentalists Three Oregon congressmen are proposing a new plan to manage Western Oregon forestlands to generate a more predictable str... Read MoreModel of bipartisanship: Plan to rescue O&C counties all about jobs - The Oregonian, February 4, 2012By Doug Robertson and Tony Hyde With their proposed O&C Trust, Conservation and Jobs Act, Democratic Reps. Peter DeFazio, Kurt Schrader and Republican Greg Walden prove that bipartisanship is alive a... Read MoreFinancial fate of federally dependent counties - Salem Statesman Journal, February 4, 2012By Peter Wong Parallel efforts are under way in the U.S. Congress and the Oregon Legislature to avert financial disaster for a number of Oregon counties dependent on federal forest payments. First, a... Read MoreWill entitlement programs and debt swamp federal revenues in the near future? - Politifact Oregon, February 2, 2012Will entitlement programs and debt swamp federal revenues in the near future? Members of Congress and politicians like to use dramatic language to describe the nation’s fiscal problems. Federal spend... Read MoreDemand more of officials, party leaders - Salem Statesman Journal, January 30, 2012Elections prevent Congress from getting things done The mood in our nation's Capitol is just dandy … if you're not one of the political-party leaders. That was the assessment Monday of Oregon Rep. Ku... Read MoreBeavercreek 15-year-old wins national honor - Oregon City News, January 30, 2012Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-Canby) awarded the Congressional Award Bronze Medal to 15-year-old Beavercreek resident James Lindsey on Friday. “James is an outstanding young man and student,” said Sch... Read More |