The sixth assessment by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is three times longer than Leo Tolstoy’s “War & Peace” and has all the calamity of the Bible.
A year after Oregon decriminalized small amounts of street drugs, some lawmakers are pushing to shift marijuana tax funds from recovery services to law enforcement.
SALEM â With Democrats in the Texas House fleeing the state this week to block a Republican bill curbing voting access, the comparisons with Oregon have been inevitable.
Like Oregon, the minority party in Texas can shut down legislative action by blocking the majority from achieving a two-thirds quorum needed to conduct business. Like Oregon, Texasâ majority party has accused the minority of blocking key priorities and taking a taxpayer-funded vacation, rather than serving their constituents. And like Oregon, lawmakers in the minority have insisted they are doing whatâs right to serve their districts.
One major difference: In Oregon, unlike Texas, it is Democrats who reign supreme. And thatâs made for something of an awkward reckoning.
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