SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A Republican proposal to stimulate the economy by giving home and business owners tax credits for improvement projects got a hearing Thursday even as Democrats insisted there were better ways to spend state funds.
The Daily Cut for April 3, 2009
Editorial: SFC should be commended for fiscally conservative budget
The Student Fee Committee should be commended for the job it did putting together the final budget for the 2009-10 academic year despite a particularly contentious budget season.
Music as therapy
In a world where kids, divas, teens and tweens rule the sonic landscape, one might think that a nasally family man hailing from Portland, Ore., would have a tough run of it. But this is a trifle that Scott Garred, the supreme force behind Super XX Man (pronounced “super double-ex man”), never seems to think about.
The Daily Cut for April 2, 2009
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Senate voted Wednesday to relax certain requirements included in the landmark ethics reform it passed two years earlier.
Officials and volunteers from small towns had been pushing lawmakers to rethink some of the reforms, arguing that certain rules invaded their privacy. More than 200 officials resigned over the matter.
Responding to two suicides on Portland State’s campus
Dear members of the PSU Community:
I want to make you aware that our campus community has recently experienced the loss of two students, in two separate tragic incidents. The death of any member of our student community is sad and very heartbreaking. In both cases, it appears the students took their own lives.
The Daily Cut
Local: New law protects wild areas in nine states
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed legislation Monday setting aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness.
Obama called the new law among the most important in decades “to protect, preserve and pass down our nation’s most treasured landscapes to future generations.”
Also in the legislation signed by Obama is a provision named for Superman actor Christopher Reeve that provides for paralysis research and care for persons with disabilities.
Stumptown Sports Hook
Check out the Stumptown Sports Hook, the Vanguard‘s sports blog, at http://stumptownsportshook.blogspot.com/ for updates before, during and after Portland State’s NCAA Tournament matchup with Xavier.
Photos From Boise
Here’s a link to some photos by Vanguard photographer Rodrigo Melgarejo: http://stumptownsportshook.blogspot.com/
Looking back to 21
End of an era?
Everything is relative. And while it is easy and convenient to sit back and judge the success of something based on a single number, it is not always the best measure of progress and accomplishment.
EDITORIAL: A drastic measure
Earlier this week the Oregon Daily Emerald‘s entire editorial staff went on strike, citing a disagreement with the newspaper’s board of directors regarding its choices in filling the newly instituted position of publisher.