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SALEM — The fuzzy future of Oregon politics east of the Cascades went public last week — no diagrams, charts, data — really nothing tangible at all to show how new legislative and congressional districts will be drawn. “We don’t have any maps,” said Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Lake Oswego, chair of the House Redistricting Committee. “We don’t have any numbers from the census.” Salinas and her Senate counterpart, Sen. Kathleen Taylor, D-Milwaukie, said the...

(The Center Square) – The American Rescue Plan Act – signed into law by President Joe Biden last week – provides funding to states that is 116 times greater than

The House Revenue Committee was again disinterested in new taxes last week as it voted down a real estate transfer tax, and an expansion of the sales tax from goods to services. Teton County legislators supported the real estate tax. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort lobbied against the sales tax expansion. Rep. Cathy Connolly, D-Albany, was the lead sponsor on the sales tax bill. Pointing to a report on Wyoming’s estimated “tax capacity” — the ability to increase taxes while rem...

The U.S. House Administration Committee moved to consider Rita Hart’s (D) challenge of the results in last November’s election in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District March 10. The committee voted in

DRY FORK, W.Va. — Meet the unlikely new power couple of Washington, D.C.

— BK Answer: Yes, every March since 2002 Meals-on-Wheels programs across the country join together in celebrating March for Meals. This national campaign, spearheaded by Meals on Wheels America, commemorates the historic day in March 1972 when President Nixon signed into law a measure that amended the Older Americans Act of 1965 and established a national nutrition program for seniors 60 years of age and older. Here in Forsyth County, Senior Services celebrates “March for Meals” ...

This story has been updated to include OSU President F. King Alexanders statements to the Faculty Senate.

An old rail corridor through Middletown will become a 5.27-mile asphalt trail after the state awarded a Next Level Trails grant to the Fall Creek Park Board.

The U.S. House Administration Committee moved to consider Rita Hart’s (D) challenge of the results in last November’s election in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District March 10. The committee voted in favor of considering the challenge and tabling a motion by Hart’s opponent, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R), to dismiss the appeal. The decision will allow Hart to present evidence in support of her petition to the committee, which will then present a full report to the House rec...

RUSHVILLE – Groundbreaking of the new REC Center in Rushville is not expected to take place until next year, but the Rush County Community Foundation is busy getting things in