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Home buyers’ letters ‘banned’? Not really

Written November 29th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 10 responses.

If you’re selling a house in Albany or anywhere else in Oregon after next Jan. 1, you may be hearing about a new law that supposedly bans would-be home buyers’ so-called “love letters.” But the law does no such thing.

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When it’s hot, worry about HB 2021

Written June 27th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 20 responses.

When it’s 104 degrees in the shade outside, and the air conditioning is going full blast inside along with an electric fan, you kind of wonder how all this is going to work out on a similar day 19 years from now. Will there be enough electric power to keep people in the mid-valley from […]

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Capitol impasse saves quite a bit of cash

Written March 4th, 2020 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 16 responses.

If it accomplishes nothing else, the impasse at the Capitol in Salem is preventing the spending of hundreds of millions of additional dollars, at least for a while.

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Cap and trade and the price of gas

Written February 3rd, 2020 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 19 responses.

The majority in the Oregon legislature is determined to increase the cost of motor fuels in order to force people to buy and burn less. So in a few years we may look back on the current era as the last time the price of gas in Albany and the rest of the state was […]

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Watch out, the lawmakers are back

Written January 14th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 32 responses.

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.

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Don’t shortcut the Constitution

Written February 6th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 12 responses.

The legislature is considering a bill that should make Oregon voters mad, or at least uneasy. Why? Because some day the bill might cause Oregon’s electoral votes for president to be cast for someone other than whoever got the most votes in this state.

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Bill targets poker rooms — why?

Written April 28th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 14 responses.

I don’t play poker and have no interest in the game, but I’m trying to understand why 39 members of the Oregon House — NOT including Albany’s Andy Olson — voted on Thursday to shut down and ban private poker clubs in Portland and perhaps other towns as well.

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