The severity of state budget cuts comes into sharper focus this week, when economists tell the Legislature how much tax money they think Oregon will collect.
A barefoot Joyce Jones, 30, creeps like an old woman into the living room of her grandmother's apartment, settles into an easy chair and talks to the person trying to keep her out of the hospital.
A federal lawsuit claims that state Sen. Brian Boquist misused earnings from his military training firm, directing cash to another business and then to Republican campaigns, and forced out two business partners after they asked questions.
The Oregon Department of Revenue, peppered with calls from small-business owners, has extended by two months the deadline to electronically file employee wage-and-tax statements.
As Oregon legislators consider millions of dollars in cuts to keep the state budget balanced, one program that so far escaped the chopping block is drawing attention because of its chief supporter.
As Oregon lawmakers and others await this week's forecast of how much the state can expect from tax collections, the interim state economist and his predecessor have discussed how the economy shapes those projections.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
