With less than a week before adjournment, Rep. Peter Buckley, D-Ashland, said the mediation proposal has a better chance than the ban on "dual track" negotiations, in which part of a bank or lending institution negotiates with borrowers while another

They include mail order retailer Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1843; engraver Frederic Ives in 1856; Texas oil millionaire H.L. Hunt in 1889; sportscaster Red Barber in 1908; author Margaret Truman Daniel , daughter of U.S. President Harry Truman, in 1924; actors...

Schools is too big. Now one group, SPARK Educational Performances, has launched a petition drive to get parents, teachers, CMS administrators and lawmakers to start thinking smaller. "My belief is that the furthest you get from the end product, the...

The bill allows Oregon Attorney General John Kroger and homeowners to use state consumer protection laws to punish lenders who foreclose before completing alternative evaluations. "We need to step up for the little guy in Oregon for a change, not for...

Unlike the Exchange bill that House Republicans plus Schaufler forced back into the Joint Ways and Means Committee, failure to pass the CCO bill would create a massive $239 million addition to the hole in the budget that would throw the whole session...

In a letter dated Monday, all 14 Republican senators and one Democrat, Betsy Johnson of Scappoose, said they would not support an overhaul bill unless it included restrictions on medical liability. Their fifteen votes