The New Era
The highly partisan world of Oregon politics makes it hard to get things such as budget deals done, as we saw clearly last week when the Oregon Senate failed to reach a bipartisan agreement on taxes and curbs to public employee pensions – PERS – after a fiery debate.
House Bill 2456, which needed 18 votes to pass, was defeated on a 15-15 largely party-line vote at the 11th hour as this…