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Large corporate fleets, Amazon, exempt from new road fees for Oregon EVs next year

  • Alex Baumhardt

Oregonians driving electric vehicles will be required to pay hundreds of dollars in new taxes and fees starting next year, sending tens of millions of dollars annually to the State Highway Fund. The fund is today mostly seeded with money from the state’s 40-cent-per-gallon gas tax and pays for Oregon roads and infrastructure. That revenue […]

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Guest Column: Attendance rates spell trouble

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This seems like a relatively obvious idea, but here goes: If we want students to do better in school — if, say, we want them reading at grade level by third grade or if we want to improve Oregon’s anemic rate of high school graduation — one way to do that might be to get students attending school more frequently.