A plea against expanding Oregon’s bicycle helmet law to riders up through age 18: The last thing we need is yet another law related to biking. ——————— Bob Thomas: Hasso, I agree with you 100%. Great editoral or statement. One thing to ponder is if this helmet law is bad for bicycles, shouldn’t the same […]
Closed meetings and the “media”
Oregon’s public meetings law, adopted 40 years ago, allows some meetings of public bodies to be closed to the public. But it has a weird provision requiring that news media representatives must be allowed in, with only two exceptions. The law does not, however, say what it means by news media. Forty years ago the […]
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