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Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown is moving forward with an income tax proposal as longer-term solution to the state's financial problems. A hearing on her plan is at 4:30 pm today just as House and Senate Democrats seem to be hitting a ...

Those of us who closely follow Oregon politics and policy are deeply saddened by the death of Oregon State Treasurer Ben Westlund. He was a kind, giving man whose independent spirit and dedication to our state will be greatly missed. ...

Concerns about an Oregon Department of Transportation employee who purchased several guns after being placed on leave prompted law enforcement across.

Will be interesting to see how that all shakes out--if any of them reveal they don't really know much about Oregon politics, or says something that sounds clueless. Posted by: Connor Allen | Mar 9, 2010 7:58:27 PM ...

Lots of political dominoes falling with Gov. Kulongoski's appointment of Ted Wheeler as state treasurer. At least three prominent Democrats, former state Sen. Margaret Carter, former U.S. Senate candidate and political activist Steve Novick and ...

PORTLAND State Treasurer Ben Westlund, an independent spirit in Oregon politics and a passionate advocate of health care reform, died Sunday after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 60. Westlund was diagnosed in 2003 but survived to win election ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — State Treasurer Ben Westlund, 60, an independent spirit in Oregon politics and a passionate advocate of health care reform, has died of lung cancer. Westlund, who died Sunday, was diagnosed in 2003 but survived to win election to a ...

A file photo of the late Ben Westlund. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Oregon state treasurer Ben Westlund, a longtime fixture in Oregon politics and a champion of health care reform, died Sunday after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 60. Westlund ...

The State of Oregon is in serious trouble. The state is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, because every branch of state government is controlled by the public employee unions that profit from bigger government and higher taxes. These powerful ...

Before breaking into the old cigarette ditty, "You've come a long way, baby!" promoters of feminist politics should remember that four Northwest women served in Congress back in the early 1960's. They were of a different era, put in office after ...

The task of finding Oregon a new State Treasurer Carla Axtman Those of us who closely follow Oregon politics and policy are deeply saddened by the death of Oregon State Treasurer Ben Westlund. He was a kind, giving man whose independent spirit and ...

Telling Macpherson he didn't get the job was one of the hardest things he'd done in politics, the governor said. Macpherson ran afoul of public employee unions in an overhaul of the state public pension system. They threw their support behind ...

Ben Westlund, who served in the Oregon House of Representatives, the Oregon Senate and as state treasurer, died Sunday of cancer. He was 60. Rob Kerr / The Bulletin file photo Sept. 3, 1949: Bernard J. Westlund II is born in Long Beach, Calif. Ben ...

PORTLAND, ORE. — Gov. Ted Kulongoski has named Multnomah County Commission Chairman Ted Wheeler as state treasurer, succeeding Ben Westlund, who died Sunday of lung cancer. Wheeler, 47, a former financial industry executive and athlete who made it ...