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With just over three weeks to go until the ballots are counted, it's time to get serious about looking at the ballot measures that will be before us Oregonians momentarily. There are a dozen of these, and with the...

Bill Sizemore's been in trouble before. But now he's in some deep, deep kim chee. Pretty soon it won't be just the teachers' unions who are after him; at some point, guys and gals with badges could start showing up...

Eli Lilly and Co., manufacturer of the anti-psychotic medication Zyprexa, has reached a $62 million settlement with 32 states and the District of Columbia, to resolve claims that the company engaged in improper marketing and sales of the drug.

RIAA Gets Its Way at Oregon October 2nd, 2008 by Vincent A few months ago the State Attorney General intervened to put the brakes on RIAA demands that the University of Oregon pass along identifying information about a number of students suspected of engaging in illegal file-sharing.

The guy who won the staring contest with the Oregon Legislature over the latter's alleged copyright on the state's statutes was written up in this morning's Times....

Earlier Erika wrote about Carl Malamud and his public.resource.org codes.gov site.  Today our friend and hero Carl is the subject of a story in the San Francisco Chronicle: Man provides code manuals free online Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer The San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, September 27, 2008, p.

It's time to get cracking on the ballot measures for the upcoming election. Let's start with what should be an easy one -- the proposed continuation of the City of Portland "children's initiative," under which property taxes are collected by...

An ongoing case over the custody of a deformed deer that has become a family pet was reportedly the subject of an Oregon Court of Appeals hearing yesterday. Although the state contended that the Molalla family, headed by James Filipetti and Francesca Mantei, broke the law by keeping the fawn…

Going to Oregon any time soon? If you are, be sure to wear your seat belt. In Clackamas County, a police sergeant recently had an epiphany where he set up a camera with a really long lens, hooked it up to Bluetooth.

While we all sit nervously awaiting the Presidential election and using our internet browsers to scout out nice communities in Canada to move to next year (if we have to), we ought to start thinking about the ballot measures that we Oregonians will be voting on in November as well.