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Curry County, Oregon Sheriff John Ward owns personally a building and a 31-foot RV a foundation told the IRS it donated to the Sheriff’s Office.

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Here’s a link to our original reporting on this story on Substack.

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Here’s our big, exclusive story from Monday with all the details and receipts regarding a company that hoovered up Portland homeless, made them apply illegally for Washington Medicaid, and kicked them out when they started asking questions.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek responded recently to a letter from the House Energy and Commerce Committee asking the state for information on combatting Medicaid fraud, based in part on Oregon Roundup’s reporting on Uplifting Journey.

Kotek’s press release talks about the Trump Administration, but the House committee is part of Congress, not the Trump Administation. She also notes that one out of four Oregonians relies on a federal program of health insurance for poor people, perhaps not the “win” she seems to think it is.

Here’s a link to SB 1599.

Link to special committee created for the purpose of changing election date.

My article on SB 1599 from earlier this week.

The Wall Street Journal today published an op-ed I wrote about the transportation tax mess Tina Kotek and her allies find themselves in, and what it might mean for Oregon’s ruling progressive coalition.

Here’s a link, which may be paywalled.

Here’s a screenshot from the online print version:

My apologies for the poor audio quality of the video. I forgot to use earbuds/mic and don’t have time to re-do it.

Also, I wrote and submitted the piece before Ed Diehl and Chris Dudley got in the governor’s race. That’s why it mentions only Christine Drazan as a likely opponent for Kotek.

I hope to dig into Democrats’ bill to change the referendum election date from November to May and publish something soon.

Stay tuned!

The Oregon legislative counsel’s office told Democrats yesterday they could not constitutionally repeal the tax now that it’s slated for a referendum vote.

This after the same attorney in that office told State Rep. Ed Diehl earlier this month Democrats could repeal the tax and have it removed from the ballot. I wrote about that and my analysis of the legal question, with which legislative counsel now largely agrees, here.