HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Watch out, the lawmakers are back

Written January 14th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

The 2019 legislature has organized itself in Salem. From here it looks like the majority will do everything it can this session to make life more expensive and less free for taxpayers and other citizens who would rather be left alone.


Let the gun bills die

Written May 7th, 2013 by

Four bills aimed at gun owners are stuck in the Senate, as I mentioned last week. Jeff Mapes of the Oregonian reports that Senate President Peter Courtney has sent them to the Rules Committee because they don’t have the 16 votes needed to pass. Courtney hopes that negotiations can still save the bills. But saving […]


What’s up with Senate gun bills?

Written May 1st, 2013 by

It was on April 18 that the state Senate Judiciary Committee passed four heavily watered-down bills directed at gun owners. So far, as of May 1, none of them has seen — or been scheduled for — action on the Senate floor. What’s going on here? It could be that the bills don’t have enough support […]


 
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