In the Keeping-Track Department: The right-lane bill in the Oregon legislature is advancing, and there’s no evidence that lawmakers are paying the slightest attention to reasonable objections.
Lawmakers labor over weed; why?
Written May 15th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Nobody asked them, but Oregon legislators nevertheless want to change the law on marijuana. Mainly they want to construct an elaborate system of regulation and control. Apparently that would be on top of the regulations and tax system Measure 91 obliges the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to set up.
Ivory bill: Let’s create another crime
Written May 14th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
The Oregon ivory bill, you will not be surprised to learn, is alive and well and on its way to becoming law. It’s an example of the majority party’s tendency to create new crimes out of transactions that until now are legal under Oregon law because they do Oregon no harm.
Albany asks that trains be funded
Written May 13th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Whether letters to legislators get results probably depends on whether legislators are inclined to do in the first place what the letters request. So Albany’s plea to fully fund Amtrak’s Cascade passenger trains may do no good, but it can’t hurt.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany City Council, Albany Station, Csacade trains, ODOT, Oregon legislature, passenger rail
Tags: Albany City Council, Albany Station, Csacade trains, ODOT, Oregon legislature, passenger rail
On Railroad Day, service in doubt
Written May 9th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Saturday was Amtrak Railroad Day in Albany, as the video shows, and at Albany Station people could look at a few displays and pick up some swag. But the future of expanded passenger rail in the Willamette Valley is anything but a sure thing.
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Tags: Albany Station, Amtrak, Cascades trains, ODOT, Oregon legislature, Railroad days
Tags: Albany Station, Amtrak, Cascades trains, ODOT, Oregon legislature, Railroad days
Our crime factory in Salem
Written April 13th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Sad to say, one part of the business of the legislature is to create crimes, and Senate Bill 941 is only the most notorious example of this. It declares that something that is perfectly legal now — selling, without asking the government’s permission, an item (a firearm) whose ownership is protected by the Constitution — becomes a […]
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Tags: bills that create crimes, creating crimes, Oregon legislature, Oregon offenses
Tags: bills that create crimes, creating crimes, Oregon legislature, Oregon offenses
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The risks of self-service: Really?
Look, a car being fueled and no attendant in sight! Oh wait. It’s a Tesla, and that hose is conducting electrical juice, not the kind made from fossilized jungles. Still, how can we allow automotive self-service when it violates all the principles the legislature set out in state law?
Tags: charging stations, gas stations, HB 3011B, Oregon legislature, self-service