Governor expands flu readiness authority
SALEM (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski has signed an executive order giving the state public health director more authority to prepare Oregon for a major flu outbreak and manage the response. The governor said the order issued Thursday grants Dr. Mel Kohn ...
 0.9K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 297.0 State overhauls 'green' tax breaks
SALEM (AP) Oregon s Department of Energy has issued new rules aimed at curbing a state program that grants lucrative tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable power plants. The changes are intended to trim the program s cost by making it hard...
2.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 297.0 10,000 children benefit from health plan
SALEM More than 10,000 children have been added to the state health plan under a new law aimed at expanding health insurance coverage to nearly every child in Oregon, officials said Tuesday. Cathy Kaufmann, manager of the program, said the sign-ups...
2.1K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 249.0 Tax breaks cost state more than predicted
PORTLAND (AP) State officials deliberately underestimated the cost of Gov. Ted Kulongoski s plan to lure green energy companies to Oregon with big taxpayer subsidies, resulting in a program that cost 40 times more than unsuspecting lawmakers were t...
11.0K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 481.0 Agencies get 'green' grants
Public entities on the South Coast will get nearly $170,000 for energy efficiency and conservation projects. Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced Tuesday the recipients of $7.25 million in pass-through grants from the American Recovery and Reinves...
1.5K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 297.0 Governor Kulongoski heads for Europe
SALEM (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski is traveling to Europe to promote business ties, but don t expect the trip to result in announcements of new companies coming to Oregon. In the midst of a deep recession, Kulongoski plans to meet with CEOs of companie...
0.8K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 333.0 Governor to visit Europe
PORTLAND (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski is heading to Europe next week to meet with companies that do business in Oregon. The governor s office says the purpose of the trip is to strengthen the state s relationship with the businesses during this time of...
0.6K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 297.0 Glitch delays plan to deport inmates
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon s plan to save money by transferring 175 prisoners to federal immigration authorities for deportation has been delayed by what Gov. Ted Kulongoski s office is calling a glitch. Earlier this year, Oregon legislators approved a ...
1.8K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 297.0 Governor to visit Europe
PORTLAND (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski is heading to Europe next week to meet with companies that do business in Oregon. The governor s office says the purpose of the trip is to strengthen the state s relationship with the businesses during this time of...
0.6K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 297.0 Glitch delays plan to deport inmates
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon s plan to save money by transferring 175 prisoners to federal immigration authorities for deportation has been delayed by what Gov. Ted Kulongoski s office is calling a glitch. Earlier this year, Oregon legislators approved a ...
1.8K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 297.0 Kulongoski wants to head off South Coast gold miners
GRANTS PASS Gov. Ted Kulongoski wants to head off recreational miners who are headed for them thar hills in Oregon after California stopped prospectors from using suction dredges to glean flecks of gold from salmon rivers. The governor sent lette...
4.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 431.0 Interior, BLM offers 62 timber sales in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest management strategy....
4.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 249.0 Oregon reports first stimulus impact: 8,000 jobs
PORTLAND Gov. Ted Kulongoski says the first wave of federal stimulus spending flowing through the state government created or saved the equivalent of more than 8,000 full-time jobs in Oregon. Kulongoski announced results Monday of the state s firs...
2.8K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 416.0 Unfair taxation is an increasing problem
The World s editorial (Sept. 29) was most definitely politically correct. Don t sock it to bar owners again (yet). That statement puts me in mind of rather than ask a man, Are you still beating your wife? advising him, Don t break her right arm un...
2.6K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 249.0 U.S. education official visits Oregon school
PORTLAND A top education official from the Obama administration visited Oregon on Friday to look at the ways a Portland-area school district is trying to ensure students learn essential skills before they graduate. Deputy Secretary of Education Ton...
3.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 249.0 State buys land for Eastern Oregon park
SALEM (AP) A state park is being planned for land along the John Day River between Wasco and Condon. The state Parks and Recreation Department paid $2.2 million to buy more than 2,400 acres from Western Rivers Conservancy, a nonprofit that...
0.6K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 249.0 Roseburg vandal targets Obama cutout
ROSEBURG (AP) Someone splattered feces on a window in front of a life-size cutout of President Barack Obama. The excrement coated the glass and covered the eaves at the Democratic party office in downtown Roseburg, the News-Review newspaper reporte...
2.4K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 249.0 State competes for federal retrofit dollars
SALEM ” Gov. Ted Kulongoski is optimistic about Oregon s chances of being chosen to receive up to $100 million in federal dollars to do energy retrofits of homes, businesses and public buildings around the state. As part of the fe...
2.2K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 297.0 Don't sock it to bar owners again (yet)
Bar and tavern owners can be forgiven if they feel a little testy toward state government these days. Since January, when Oregon banned smoking in such establishments, owners have complained about lost business. Among other things, they say the ban d...
1.9K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 249.0 Schools get stimulus dollars for energy projects
Three North Bend schools will receive almost $76,000 in federal stimulus funds for energy efficiency projects. Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will distribute more than $500,000 through the American...
2.2K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 297.0 | 
