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Gov. Tina Kotek on Thursday began a full-court press for her $500 million plan to spur home construction, telling senators in a crowded committee hearing that they can’t go home
Gov. Tina Kotek on Thursday began a full-court press for her $500 million plan to spur home construction, telling senators in a crowded committee hearing that they can’t go home
In the 1970s, Oregonians looked to California and didn't want the same fate for their state. A new crop of young legislators in Salem saw an opportunity to advance an ambitious agenda. It took nearly a decade to put in place a system that has some of the strongest protections in the U.S. for farms, forests and other open spaces.
Henry Richmond, founder of 1000 Friends of Oregon, has died OregonLive.com 8 hrs ago The Oregonian, oregonlive.com Henry Richmond, founder of the land-use advocacy group 1000 Friends of Oregon and a leading supporter of Oregon’s much-touted land-use planning system, died June 21. He was 78. He died suddenly at his family’s farm near Newberg following a heart attack, OPB reported. Richmond had a national reputation as an expert on land-use policy. As chair of the National Growth Management Leadership Project, a nonprofit coalition of states looking at growth issues, he on...