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Legislative action stabilizes ODOT budget, avoids layoffs

March 9, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Legislative action stabilizes ODOT budget, avoids layoffs

SALEM – The Oregon Department of Transportation will avoid layoffs and deep service cuts following the passage of legislation that addresses a $297 million budget shortfall for the agency’s maintenance and operations work. The action […]

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After walkouts, budget woes and tensions over Trump, Oregon lawmakers wrap for 2026 session

March 7, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off on After walkouts, budget woes and tensions over Trump, Oregon lawmakers wrap for 2026 session

by Shaanth Nanguneri, Mia Maldonado, Julia Shumway and Alex Baumhardt, Oregon Capital ChronicleMarch 6, 2026 For the first time in years, Oregon lawmakers in Salem’s newly-reopened Capitol streamed out of the chamber floors into the […]

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Judge blocks Portland ICE facility agents from using tear gas leaking into nearby apartments

March 6, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Judge blocks Portland ICE facility agents from using tear gas leaking into nearby apartments

by Shaanth Nanguneri, Oregon Capital ChronicleMarch 6, 2026 A federal judge on Friday barred federal agents outside Portland’s waterfront Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility from using tear gas and chemical munitions in a manner that […]

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Oregon Legislature votes to round pennies after lack of federal guidance

March 6, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Oregon Legislature votes to round pennies after lack of federal guidance

by Robin Linares, Oregon Capital ChronicleMarch 6, 2026 Oregonians who pay in cash could pay a couple cents more or less under a bill headed to Gov. Tina Kotek. House Bill 4178, which passed the […]

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Direct File Oregon offers simplest solution for taxpayers switching to e-filing in 2026 to get their refund sooner

March 6, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Direct File Oregon offers simplest solution for taxpayers switching to e-filing in 2026 to get their refund sooner

Salem, OR—Are you looking for a free option to file your taxes? Want to get your refund faster than filing a paper return? Direct File Oregon is the best of both worlds. Taxpayers accustomed to filling out […]

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Thursday 3/12

Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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An amendment to the US Constitution must be ratified by what fraction of all the states?

An amendment to the United States Constitution must be ratified by three-fourths (3/4) of all the states. In the current 50-state union, this requires approval from 38 states for an amendment to become part of the Constitution.

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In what city did Rosa Parks refuse to move to the back of the bus?

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of going to the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. When the bus started to fill up with white passengers, the bus driver asked Parks to move. She refused. Her resistance set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Who does Eddie Murphy trade places with in the 1983 movie "Trading Places"?

In the 1983 film Trading Places, Eddie Murphy's character, a streetwise con artist named Billy Ray Valentine, trades places with an upper-class commodities broker named Louis Winthorpe III, played by Dan Aykroyd.

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What is the soft, triangular, fleshy part of the inside of a horse's hoof called?

The soft, triangular, fleshy part on the underside of a horse's hoof is called the frog. This V-shaped structure is located between the heel bulbs and extends toward the toe, typically occupying about 25% to 33% of the hoof's bottom surface.

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Woodrow Wilson kept a herd of what animal to cut the White House lawn?

During World War I (starting in 1918), President Woodrow Wilson kept a flock of sheep to graze on the White House lawn. The flock, which grew to 48 sheep at its peak, was used to save manpower, provide natural fertilizer, and raise over $50,000 for the Red Cross by auctioning their wool.

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