With Oregon’s legislative session nearing a close, backers of sweeping changes to Oregon’s criminal sentencing laws are tempering their expectations. State
As the legislative session nears its end, Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, is pitching smaller changes to Measure 11, the controversial law specifying mandatory minimum prison sentences. Hopes for broad changes to the law are dwindling.
Public schools and employers will be banned from discriminating against hairstyles associated with a person’s race, under a bill now headed to Oregon Gov.
PORTLAND The Oregon House approved a measure Wednesday that urges Congress to kick off the process to plan to pay reparations to “descendants of African slaves in the United States.”