May 24, 2016 OSL eClips
* Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will host a budget meeting Thursday in Portland
* Controversial corporate tax hike could raise $3 billion a year, but add some costs for families, state report shows
* Another Oregon standoff? Sheriff warns lawmakers over Owyhee Canyonlands plan
* Oregon on track to collect $43 million in pot taxes this year
* Foster care crisis: Investigation results still months away
* Unions’ corporate tax will act as a sales tax, state says — Opinion
* Environmentalists, please consider rural Oregon — Guest Opinion
* How one ballot measure would transform taxes in Oregon
* Proposed Oregon business tax would be borne by consumers, nonpartisan analysis finds
* Oregon State University: Beware of hidden antibiotics
* A new revenue source? — Opinion
* Oregon’s medical opportunity on Lyme disease ticking by — Guest Opinion
* State business tax plan would raise billions, but could ‘dampen’ employment, growth
* Owyhee Canyonlands supporters, opponents face off in Salem hearings
* Redmond Airport reopening today
* Report details Wests loss of natural lands
* Editorial: Good move toward health cost transparency — Opinion
* Hearing debates Owyhee
* County plan for sewers challenged
* Report outlines pitfalls of proposed tax hike
* Ceremony at Corvallis creek honors lamprey
* Editorial: Oregon should grow economy, not tax rates — Opinion
* Editorial: A bad lesson from Portland schools — Opinion
* Gary Haugen Has A New Execution Date, But Oregon’s Death Penalty Moratorium Remains
* Clean Air Advocates Converge On Oregon Senate Hearing
* Coping with climate change in Eastern Oregon
* Fire sweeps across Umatilla Depot, causes wrecks on I-82
* Department of Energy recommends siting major wind farm in Morrow County
* Invasive white top spreads to rangeland
* Proposed Canyonlands monument dominates talk at town hall
* Got sun?
* Construction season begins on highways
* Medford pans casino study
* Jackson County to FERC: Uphold pipeline denial
* Guest Opinion: BLM’s management plan is insufficient — Guest Opinion
* State asks to amend Skrah indictment after dismissal request
* Development people get a good picture of Klamath County business potential — Opinion
* Blue Zones Project can improve local health
* Support builds for embattled shipyard: Advisory group hopes to relocate Astoria Marine Construction
* Editorial: Congress finally agrees for the good — Opinion
* Editorial: Leave them alone, give them space — Opinion
* Editorial: Gas-tax votes complicate road plans — Opinion
* Editorial: Legislative report triggers fight over tax increase — Opinion
* Editorial: Jury’s still out on motor voters — Opinion
* DEQ hears concerns
* Mysterious motions in the mountains
* OUR VIEW: Staircase worth climbing — Opinion
* Largest solar plant in Oregon active in Bly
* Water bottling ban passes, legal questions remain
* Douglas County’s population hits 107,000, again
* Department of State Lands overstepped in Heard Farms stoppage — Opinion
* ‘Oregon Promise’ helps students go to community college
* DEQ reveals toxics testing plan for The Dalles
* Where people drink the most booze and do the most drugs– Blog
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OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE WILL HOST A BUDGET MEETING THURSDAY IN PORTLAND (Portland Oregonian)
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is hoping non-hunters and non-anglers will attend its town hall meeting Thursday on it’s proposed budget.
The meeting was scheduled at the request of conservation groups after mild criticism the department wasn’t reaching out to other constituencies.
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CONTROVERSIAL CORPORATE TAX HIKE COULD RAISE $3 BILLION A YEAR, BUT ADD SOME COSTS FOR FAMILIES, STATE REPORT SHOWS (Portland Oregonian)
A controversial tax plan headed for November’s ballot would raise hundreds of millions of dollars more than initially estimated.
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ANOTHER OREGON STANDOFF? SHERIFF WARNS LAWMAKERS OVER OWYHEE CANYONLANDS PLAN (Portland Oregonian)
Sparks flew Monday during a hearing attended by ranchers and environmentalists in the state Capitol on a proposal to turn 2.5 million acres of canyonlands and desert in southeastern Oregon into a federally protected monument.
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OREGON ON TRACK TO COLLECT $43 MILLION IN POT TAXES THIS YEAR (Portland Oregonian)
Oregon is expected to take in about $43 million in tax revenue from recreational marijuana this year under a revised estimate by state economists.
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FOSTER CARE CRISIS: INVESTIGATION RESULTS STILL MONTHS AWAY (Portland Oregonian)
A review of Oregon’s foster care system is expected to wrap up in August, _________________________________________
UNIONS’ CORPORATE TAX WILL ACT AS A SALES TAX, STATE SAYS — OPINION (Portland Oregonian)
The public employee unions seeking to boost business taxes by about $6 billion per biennium would like Oregonians to believe that Joe and Jane Taxpayer won’t be affected.
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ENVIRONMENTALISTS, PLEASE CONSIDER RURAL OREGON — GUEST OPINION (Salem Statesman Journal)
For decades, the federal Bureau of Land Management has been stuck between the rock of Northwest timber counties and the hard place of environmental advocacy coalitions.
In matters of public debate, the best solution is often somewhere in the moderate middle.
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HOW ONE BALLOT MEASURE WOULD TRANSFORM TAXES IN OREGON (Salem Statesman Journal)
A ballot measure poised to pit labor groups against business interests would increase the tax burden of Oregonians by about $600 per capita annually and raise more than $6 billion in revenue each biennium.
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PROPOSED OREGON BUSINESS TAX WOULD BE BORNE BY CONSUMERS, NONPARTISAN ANALYSIS FINDS (Eugene Register-Guard)
Initiative Petition 28, a proposed major tax increase on big businesses in Oregon, would in practice act largely as a sales or value-added tax paid by consumers, an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Revenue Office has found.
Middle- and even low-income families would pay hundreds of dollars a year in new indirect taxes, passed on through higher retail product prices and utility bills, the report said.
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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: BEWARE OF HIDDEN ANTIBIOTICS (Eugene Register-Guard)
-Researchers say the jury is still out on triclosan effects and studies should continue-
Before you dig into that expensively hormone-free chicken dinner, you might want to double check the hand soap that you used while washing up.
If its antibacterial soap, the chances are you lathered up with the widely used and easily absorbed antibiotic called triclosan.
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A NEW REVENUE SOURCE? — OPINION (Eugene Register-Guard)
Given the amount of money pouring into state coffers from a tax on newly legalized recreational marijuana, it was only a matter of time before cash-strapped local governments began eyeing this new revenue source.
Cottage Grove is now among the first to take steps toward implementing a local tax on recreational marijuana sales. It wont be the last.
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OREGON’S MEDICAL OPPORTUNITY ON LYME DISEASE TICKING BY — GUEST OPINION (Eugene Register-Guard)
There is nothing like the joy and exuberance of rejoining the world after being sequestered in bed with a chronic illness for many years. My gratitude and wonder are tempered only by the sorrow of having lost so much time in this precious cycle we call a life-span. My return to actively parenting my young daughter and being a productive member of society are privileged burdens that I most happily undertake. You see, I am recovering from chronic Lyme disease.
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OREGON’S MEDICAL OPPORTUNITY ON LYME DISEASE TICKING BY (Eugene Register-Guard)
There is nothing like the joy and exuberance of rejoining the world after being sequestered in bed with a chronic illness for many years.
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STATE BUSINESS TAX PLAN WOULD RAISE BILLIONS, BUT COULD ‘DAMPEN’ EMPLOYMENT, GROWTH (Portland Tribune)
A proposed tax on the sales of large businesses would generate more than $6 billion in biennial state revenue starting in 2017-19, but it also would slow income, employment and population growth during the next five years, according to a state analysis of the initiative.
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OWYHEE CANYONLANDS SUPPORTERS, OPPONENTS FACE OFF IN SALEM HEARINGS (Portland Tribune)
Advocates and opponents of a proposed 2.5 million-acre national monument in Eastern Oregon tried to enlist the support of state lawmakers during a recent legislative hearing.
The two sides are mounting competing public relations campaigns to influence the possible designation of the Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument, which will ultimately be decided by President Barack Obama.
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REDMOND AIRPORT REOPENING TODAY (Bend Bulletin)
Commercial air service returns to the Redmond Airport today, bringing to an end a three-week closure to replace the main runway.
Reached Friday, Airport Manager Zachary Bass said private pilots were set to resume flying in and out of Redmond by late Friday afternoon, with scheduled commercial service resuming this morning.
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REPORT DETAILS WESTS LOSS OF NATURAL LANDS (Bend Bulletin)
-Project looks to give big picture, inform discussions-
The American West lost a football field of natural land including forests, wetlands, deserts and grasslands every two and a half minutes between 2001 and 2011, according to a new report.
Ed Note: To view Oregon-related information from the project, visit: www.disappearingwest.org/factsheets/oregon
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EDITORIAL: GOOD MOVE TOWARD HEALTH COST TRANSPARENCY — OPINION (Bend Bulletin)
It sure is nice to know the price of something before you buy it.
Oregon hospitals took a good step toward helping some consumers know what procedures will cost. The Oregonian reported the Oregon Association of Hospitals & Health Systems has added cost estimate pages to its website, OregonHospitalGuide.org.
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HEARING DEBATES OWYHEE (Bend Bulletin)
-Ranchers object to protection proposal-
A proposal to permanently protect the Owyhee Canyonlands in southeast Oregon prompted questions Monday about the adequacy of current rules and whether a new designation might eventually halt grazing in the area.
A state House committee discussed the proposed Owyhee Canyonlands National Conservation Area at a crowded informational hearing in Salem during legislative days.
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COUNTY PLAN FOR SEWERS CHALLENGED (Bend Bulletin)
-Central Oregon LandWatch appeals decision to allow sewers systems in rural southern Deschutes County-
Central Oregon LandWatch is challenging a decision that allows sewer systems in rural parts of southern Deschutes County.
The Bend-based land use watchdog group argues in a recent petition to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals that the decision is too vague to address ground contamination concerns in unincorporated areas around La Pine and Sunriver.
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REPORT OUTLINES PITFALLS OF PROPOSED TAX HIKE (Bend Bulletin)
A massive $2.8 billion annual corporate tax hike is likely headed to Oregon voters in November, a move that could create the most aggressive tax climate for big business of any state in the nation.
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CEREMONY AT CORVALLIS CREEK HONORS LAMPREY (Bend Bulletin)
David Harrelson banged a drum Saturday afternoon alongside the trickling Lamprey Creek in a blessing ceremony honoring the creek and the fish it will forever be named after.
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EDITORIAL: OREGON SHOULD GROW ECONOMY, NOT TAX RATES — OPINION (Bend Bulletin)
The biggest proposed tax increase in Oregon history is now a bad idea in new ways. It would cost Oregonians 20,000 jobs in the next five years, raise prices for consumers by about 1 percent and hit the poorest Oregonians harder.
Thats the verdict of the new report from Oregon’s Legislative Revenue Office on Initiative Petition 28. IP 28 is a new minimum tax on C corporations with sales of more than $25 million. They would have to pay a new tax rate of 2.5 percent on sales above $25 million.
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EDITORIAL: A BAD LESSON FROM PORTLAND SCHOOLS — OPINION (Bend Bulletin)
Directors of Portland Public Schools decided last week to effectively ban climate change doubters from the districts curriculum. The problem is too serious, the bans supporters said, to be open to question. Clearly both the school board and those supporting the ban need a lesson in free speech, at least the way its described by John Stuart Mill.
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GARY HAUGEN HAS A NEW EXECUTION DATE, BUT OREGON’S DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM REMAINS (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Its been almost 20 years since anyone was put to death in Oregon 54 if you don’t count death row inmates who gave up their appeals and essentially volunteered to be executed.
In fact, when announcing a moratorium on Oregon’s death penalty in 2011, then-Gov. John Kitzhaber said only those who say they’re ready end up being executed in Oregon.
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CLEAN AIR ADVOCATES CONVERGE ON OREGON SENATE HEARING (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Hundreds of people, worried about clean air, converged on Oregon’s Legislature Monday, to speak at a senate hearing.
Last week Gov. Kate Brown issued a cease and desist order to Bullseye Glass, after air monitors identified it as a source of lead emissions.
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COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE IN EASTERN OREGON (East Oregonian)
-Umatilla County is feeling the effects of climate change, and has been for years.-
But Jeff Blackwood said there are ways all of us can adapt.
Blackwood is a former supervisor of the Umatilla National Forest and a core member of the Umatilla County Climate Change Focus Group, which held public workshops Saturday in Pendleton at Blue Mountain Community College to discuss climate change and what we can do about it.
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FIRE SWEEPS ACROSS UMATILLA DEPOT, CAUSES WRECKS ON I-82 (East Oregonian)
A large, fast-moving brush fire swept across the Umatilla Chemical Depot west of Hermiston Monday morning, burning two buildings and causing a multi-vehicle wreck on Interstate 82 that injured four people.
Fire departments from around the region responded and worked into the afternoon to knock down the fire, which burned over the top of the hundreds of cement igloos that once held munitions. Two buildings also were destroyed in the blaze.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RECOMMENDS SITING MAJOR WIND FARM IN MORROW COUNTY (East Oregonian)
The Oregon Department of Energy has recommended approving the site certificate for a proposed 500-megawatt wind farm in Umatilla and Morrow counties.
Wheatridge Wind Energy LLC wants to build up to 292 turbines between two main project areas, known as Wheatridge East and Wheatridge West.
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INVASIVE WHITE TOP SPREADS TO RANGELAND (Argus Observer)
Just about everyone in Malheur County, and elsewhere in the valley, has probably seen white top, as it is prolific. While it can be controlled, it is appearing in areas where control is very difficult.
White top is an invasive noxious weed that crowds out native species and has no economic value, as it is not a forage.
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PROPOSED CANYONLANDS MONUMENT DOMINATES TALK AT TOWN HALL (Argus Observer)
.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said he has carried the message to Congress that the majority of people in Malheur County do not want a national monument, but that does not mean the conversation is not happening.
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GOT SUN? (Argus Observer)
-Area solar farms get ready to soak up rays-
With one solar farm projected to be up and running by July, crews are working quickly on solar power installations around Malheur County.
There are about 150 people working on six sites, according to Justin Kylstad, assistant project manager for Swinerton Renewable Energy.
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CONSTRUCTION SEASON BEGINS ON HIGHWAYS (Argus Observer)
The summer construction season is underway and motorists driving on U.S. Highway 20 in the local area will be seeing construction work over the next few weeks as crews add rumble strips.
The project will be from Cairo Junction to Harper, Tom Strandberg, Oregon Department of Transportation Region 5 spokesperson, said. Work will include lane closures, flaggers and delays of up to 20 minutes at times, he said.
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MEDFORD PANS CASINO STUDY (Medford Mail Tribune)
Medford officials have criticized a federal Coquille Indian Tribe casino study for failing to adequately address crime, transportation, economic impacts and alternative locations and for opening the door to more tribal gaming in Oregon.
Establishing this precedent would make it more likely that the tribe and other similarly situated tribes will pursue such developments in the future, according to a May 9 letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs written by City Attorney Lori Cooper.
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JACKSON COUNTY TO FERC: UPHOLD PIPELINE DENIAL (Medford Mail Tribune)
The Jackson County Board of Commissioners has sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission asking it to stand firm in its decision to block a 232-mile natural gas pipeline that would have crossed through Southern Oregon.
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GUEST OPINION: BLM’S MANAGEMENT PLAN IS INSUFFICIENT — GUEST OPINION (Medford Mail Tribune)
We Oregonians love our public lands. We also love clean air and safe communities and we expect the federal government to keep its promises.
The recent proposal by the Bureau of Land Management for managing local lands into the foreseeable future doesnt promote the Oregon we love. It does not ensure clean air, it takes away our access to vital county services like jails and sheriffs deputies, and it breaks the promise the federal government made with the people under the O&C Act.
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STATE ASKS TO AMEND SKRAH INDICTMENT AFTER DISMISSAL REQUEST (Herald and News)
Prosecutors have asked to amend the indictment of Klamath County Sheriff Frank Skrah after the defense argued the indictment should be dismissed because of failure to follow procedure.
In a motion filed Friday, the state insisted the nine-count misdemeanor indictment against Skrah was filed appropriately but asked to amend the document to more directly address concerns raised by Skrahs attorney, Rosalind Lee.
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DEVELOPMENT PEOPLE GET A GOOD PICTURE OF KLAMATH COUNTY BUSINESS POTENTIAL — OPINION (Herald and News)
Site selectors are people whose job is to help businesses find sites to operate in. Several were in Klamath Falls last week looking at what Klamath County has to offer. They attended a conference organized by the Klamath County Economic Development Association.
Klamath County does have a lot to offer, including some recent forward steps or at least managing to dodge a couple of bullets. It also has enough drawbacks no interstate highway, a deterioration of the timber industry, a slow recovery from the recession to have made efforts to build the economy difficult.
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BLUE ZONES PROJECT CAN IMPROVE LOCAL HEALTH (The World)
Coos County ranks among near the bottom in a number of critical health categories, but there is a push to change that with the Blue Zones Project.
Blue Zones Project statewide manager Jordan Carr gave a presentation during the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce’s Wednesday Business Connection luncheon to tout the benefits and results of “taking the pledge.”
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SUPPORT BUILDS FOR EMBATTLED SHIPYARD: ADVISORY GROUP HOPES TO RELOCATE ASTORIA MARINE CONSTRUCTION (Daily Astorian)
The advisory group overseeing the cleanup of Astoria Marine Construction Co.s contaminated shipyard has asked the state to support a public-private partnership to relocate the business.
Denise Lfman, director of the Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce and chairwoman of the advisory group, wrote a letter to Robert Williams, the cleanup project manager for the state Department of Environmental Quality.
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EDITORIAL: CONGRESS FINALLY AGREES FOR THE GOOD — OPINION (Daily Astorian)
Nowadays, it is surprising to learn Congress has agreed to anything more than taking another vacation. Forthcoming chemical safety legislation borders on being an amazing accomplishment.
Federal lawmakers last week unveiled compromise laws that will provide the industry with greater certainty while empowering the Environmental Protection Agency to obtain more information about a chemical before approving its use.
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EDITORIAL: LEAVE THEM ALONE, GIVE THEM SPACE — OPINION (Daily Astorian)
-Rarely are animal babies actually abandoned-
Last weeks sad and irritating news that a newborn bison calf had to be euthanized in Yellowstone National Park after well-meaning tourists placed it their vehicle, leading to it being rejected by its herd, is a good reminder of our own baby animal issues. Young wildlife including pups, fawns, bear cubs and birds are best left alone.
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EDITORIAL: GAS-TAX VOTES COMPLICATE ROAD PLANS — OPINION (Albany Democrat Herald)
The news was mixed across Oregon in the election for local proposals to raise gasoline taxes, and its a good bet that the results were closely examined by that committee of legislators charged with crafting a transportation package for next years Legislature.
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EDITORIAL: LEGISLATIVE REPORT TRIGGERS FIGHT OVER TAX INCREASE — OPINION (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
The fighting officially has started on Initiative Petition 28, the proposed gross receipts tax on businesses with more than $25 million in Oregon sales and you can be sure that the battle will roll all the way to Election Day in November.
The battle heated up on Monday, when the Legislative Revenue Office released a nonpartisan analysis of the measure’s potential effects.
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EDITORIAL: JURY’S STILL OUT ON MOTOR VOTERS — OPINION (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Despite what we argued in an editorial last week, it may be too early to conclude definitively that the states motor-voter registration system had little or no impact on the primary election.
Certainly, the overall numbers from Tuesdays election were impressive: Officials expect that final tallies will show that 1.2 million Oregonians cast ballots in the election. If that expectation holds, this will be only the second primary election in state history with more than 1 million ballots turned in.
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DEQ HEARS CONCERNS (The Dalles Chronicle)
Pete Shepherd, interim director of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, said one of the most important things hes learned in his more than 23 years of public service is the importance of listening to people speak from their heart in the place where they live.
He got plenty of that Tuesday evening as around 120 people packed into the Columbia Gorge Community College lecture hall to discuss a Mutual Agreement and Order between DEQ and Amerities Westthe railroad tie plant in The Dalles.
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MYSTERIOUS MOTIONS IN THE MOUNTAINS (LaGrande Observer)
-A doctoral student at the University of Oregon is using an array of seismometers to try to figure out why the Wallowa Mountains are rising, and what causes local earthquakes-
Matthew Morriss wants to know whats going on under our feet.
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OUR VIEW: STAIRCASE WORTH CLIMBING — OPINION (LaGrande Observer)
The effort to renovate the grand staircase at Eastern Oregon University is one of those ideas that carry a lot of merit and should be pursued with vigor by those who support the effort.
However, the $3.2 million project is one that would be better financed through donations and grants and not state funds.
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LARGEST SOLAR PLANT IN OREGON ACTIVE IN BLY (Lake County Examiner)
Bly is now solar-central in Oregon, as the newest and largest solar plant in the state is now generating power at an astounding 6.8 megawatts per year.
Comprised of 21,964 sun-tracking solar panels located on a former 40-acre Weyerhauser industrial site that closed in 1984, the facility is operated by NextEra Energy Resources, LLC through an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary. The vast solar array began construction last year as the largest solar project in scale to be built in the state to date.
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WATER BOTTLING BAN PASSES, LEGAL QUESTIONS REMAIN (Hood River News)
Measure 14-55, which blocks large-scale bottling companies like Nestl from tapping into county water sources, sailed through the May 17 Primary Election with 69 percent of votes.
#Water Protection Measure amends the Hood River County charter to prohibit any company from producing or transporting 1,000 or more gallons of bottled water per day. That includes all water labeled and marketed as water in plastic and glass bottles, jugs, or similar containers.
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DOUGLAS COUNTY’S POPULATION HITS 107,000, AGAIN (Douglas County News-Review)
Douglas County’s population has again climbed above the 107,000 mark for the first time since 2012, according to new estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The U.S. Census Bureau released its population estimates Thursday that estimated the county’s population as of July to be 107,685, adding an additional 687 residents compared to 2014.
Roseburg grew at a slightly faster rate during the year, adding 155 residents in 2015 for a total estimated population of 22,114.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE LANDS OVERSTEPPED IN HEARD FARMS STOPPAGE — OPINION (Douglas County News-Review)
Theres an old saying that goes something like Its a dirty job, but someones gotta do it.
Few businesses get the meaning of that maxim quite like Heard Farms, a quasi-farm that sows fertilizer from human waste. For nearly 20 years, it has stepped up to treat and manage the sewage of 17 cities and towns in Oregon. Flushing the toilet is not magic, and the operation there in Wilbur understands that better than most.
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‘OREGON PROMISE’ HELPS STUDENTS GO TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE (KGW)
Community college has always been a good first step for students who did not want the pressure or commitment or cost of a four-year school.
Personally, I think for myself Im just not ready for that, said Fiona Lett-Alago, a senior at Lincoln High School.
Now the deal is even better.
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DEQ REVEALS TOXICS TESTING PLAN FOR THE DALLES (KGW)
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality announced a plan to monitor toxics in The Dalles but residents say officials are still not doing enough to address health concerns.
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WHERE PEOPLE DRINK THE MOST BOOZE AND DO THE MOST DRUGS— BLOG (Washington Post)
Americans in different parts of the country are known to vary significantly in their consumption of particular foods be it spicy chili, cream-cheese covered bagels or collard greens. Recent federal government data shows that the country is equally diverse in its consumption of intoxicating substances.
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