Last month, canvassers began collecting signatures for a Portland ballot initiative seeking to use clean energy funds to hire police. Since then, the Oregon Secretary of State has received 28 complaints alleging campaign petitioners are misleading the public about the proposal. The Secretary of Stateโs office has opened an investigation into the allegations, many of […]
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Good Morning, News! Centrist Dems Seem To Have Lost; Oregonians Cool With Taxes, Actually; Ebola; And Stephen Colbert Signs Off
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