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GOP Attacks Governor’s Connection to Green Card Scam

How can I resist? The Republican spin machine deems it a bad day for Oregon Democratic Governor John Kitzhaber's re-election campaign to find out that his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, once took money to marry an 18-year-old Ethiopian man to help…

School Gunslinger Law May Increase Insurance Premiums $2500

Various correspondents have wondered just how much South Dakota's school gunslinger law would cost our schools in increased liability insurance premiums. We now have an answer: $2,500 per armed teacher per year. The Oregon School Boards Association, which manages liability…

Medicaid Good for Poor Folks, Hospitals, Doctors

Medicaid works. New research says just how well. In what is being called a "landmark" study, Harvard prof Katherine Baicker, MIT prof Amy Finkelstein, and a whole bunch of other smart people look at the effects of a unique Medicaid…