Just 35 days for Ore. lawmakers' busy agenda

28 January 2012, 10:51 am

SALEM -- Oregon lawmakers return to Salem on Wednesday facing some daunting challenges: a struggling economy, deep budget cuts and major changes to health care and education. The top priority, legislative leaders say, will be further trimming a budget that was already hacked last year. Nothing is off the table, they say. Barely a quarter of the way into a two-year spending plan, lawmakers ...... Read More »

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