Date: 06/09/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek says she plans to introduce a bill raising the statewide minimum wage slightly and letting local governments raise it even higher. The Portland Democrat says she will make her plan public later this week. Labor unions and other left-leaning interest groups have made raising the minimum wage to $15 a top priority. Business interests vehemently oppose raising the minimum wage, saying many businesses can’t afford it.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Senate has voted to eliminate the Oregon Education Investment Board, which was the centerpiece of former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s plan to improve public education. Kitzhaber envisioned the board as a powerful agency overseeing all of education, from preschool through college, with authority to direct money toward the most successful schools. The concept never fully materialized, and the board has many critics who say it’s ineffective.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – On July 1, Oregonians over age 21 will be able to legally grow, own and consume their own small amounts of recreational marijuana. Legislators, however, are still working on the regulations that will govern the legal recreational marijuana industry, which is not expected to start selling to the public until late next year. Taxes would be charged to consumers, instead of growers for recreational marijuana.
WILLIAMS, Ore. (AP) – A modern-style Oregon house once owned by Steve Miller of the Steve Miller Band has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The William J. and Sarah Wagner Lippincott House was designed by architect Winifred Scott Wellington, a faculty member at University of California, Berkeley.
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