Oregon schools could face rare multi-million dollar losses and budget cuts in the middle of the school year because of new federal tax policies. Lower than expected state revenue due to congressional Republican’s summer tax and spending law that will extend to the state, as well as rising unemployment, are causing state leaders to prepare […]
Oregon lawmakers have just a few months to decide if they’ll let state tax policy automatically couple with federal tax cuts passed in the July GOP megalaw that could reduce the state income tax burden on Oregonians and businesses but leave the state government without hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for public services. […]
A Biden-era program to ensure 40% of new federal climate, housing, clean energy and clean water funding went to projects and programs in historically underserved communities led to major investments in rural Oregon and to tribes, a new study revealed. But many of those investments are now being cut or scaled back in the federal […]
Oregon’s lone Republican U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz spent little time discussing the potential impacts of the recent GOP tax and spending cut law to energy, the environment, Medicaid or to the lives of his eastern Oregon constituents at his first public appearance since the bill became law July 4. Bentz, who represents Oregon’s 2nd Congressional […]
