Citizens in Charge

Galt’s police department could get a $400,000 per year funding boost if residents pass a potential ballot measure to increase the city’s sales tax.

The Albany City Council on Wednesday declined Councilor Sharon Konopa’s request to pass a resolution in support of Ballot Measure 49.

The measure in general would limit development allowed under the Measure 37 property-rights law approved by voters in 2004.

Opponents of Oregon’s new domestic partnership law have asked a county clerk to change her decision about referendum signatures so the law can go to a statewide vote next year.

Reynolds American, the makers of Camel cigarettes, has contributed another $304,000 to the record-setting campaign against Measure 50, which would raise Oregon’s cigarette tax by 85 cents a pack.

If passed, Measure 50 would be the nation’s first tobacco tax included in a state constitution

Oregon voters have a choice in the Nov. 6 election as they seek to balance private-property rights against the need for orderly land use planning.

If you live in certain areas of western Washington, you may have to vote more than once. That’s because, in addition to the high-profile transportation measure under the name Prop One, some counties have their own measures, also called Prop One.

Some consider their votes for Measure 37 a mistake. Original authors of 2004 land use measure stick to their guns.

When Oregon voters approved Measure 37 three years ago, they sparked similar movements in other states.

Starting today, signature gatherers will ask Portland residents to put a law on next year’s ballot decriminalizing possession of as much as an ounce of marijuana.

To its supporters, Measure 37 was unfinished business from three decades earlier, when Oregon put most rural land off-limits to development.

Opponents of the multibillion-dollar roads and transit measure on next month’s ballot were once so underfunded and disorganized that few people took them seriously. No longer.

Letter to the editor from history teacher on Oregon’s Measure 49, the property rights measure.