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March 18, 2024 - Anti-dairy group sues Tillamook over label

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation We are not far away from having liberal groups issue at least one official lawsuit against every single favorite Oregon brand in our State. Oregon’s highest court will hear arguments in March on the appeal of a five-year-old lawsuit against the Tillamook County Creamery […]


March 13, 2024 - Brief counters claims on O&C Act, monument expansion in Supreme Ct. Case

AFRC-AOCC Reply Brief Counters Claims on O&C Act, Monument Expansion in Supreme Court Case By American Forest Resource Council Today, the American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) and the Association of O&C Counties (AOCC), along with a coalition, filed a reply brief in AFRC et al. vs. United States of America […]


March 10, 2024 - Final Legislative Ag review

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, Legislative Update The 2024 Legislative Session adjourned on Thursday evening, with major accomplishments outside of our sector including packages addressing housing, drugs, and campaign spending.   Overall, OFS ended strong on our issues. HB 4059 on canola passed yesterday in amended form. While we averted […]


March 6, 2024 - Legislative GOP Urge Immediate Reconsideration of Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan

  Oregon Legislative Republicans Urge for Immediate Reconsideration of the Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan By Oregon State Senate Republican Caucus and Oregon House Republican Caucus The full Senate and House Republican Caucuses sent a letter to Governor Tina Kotek urging for the immediate reconsideration of ODF’s proposed Habitat Conservation Plan […]


March 6, 2024 - Because There Is a Creator, There Are No Cosmic Coincidences

Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Based in Oregon A friend who lives in Calico Rock, Arkansas wrote me, “Calico Rock has been preparing for the TOTAL ECLIPSE on April 8, 2024—we are in the direct totality path. Since all of this ‘just happened,’ we are hoping it does not get […]


March 3, 2024 - Legislative Ag update 3/2

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, Things are beginning to wind down in the Capitol as we move into the final week of the 2024 session. The major drug and housing bills appear to be headed for bi-partisan passage, and the final budget allocations will be revealed early next week as […]


February 28, 2024 - Update on wildfire bill

By Oregon State Representative Jami Cate, Press Release, One of the highlights this week was having the opportunity to testify on one of my bills, HB 4007, which we covered in an earlier. This bill protects the settlements of wildfire lawsuits from being taxed at rates of up to 70%—helping […]


February 26, 2024 - Legislative Ag update Feb 24

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter   The 2024 Legislative Session crossed the halfway point this week and jettisoned a number of bills after passing the first significant deadline. Legislative leadership continues to wrangle over Measure 110, housing, the budget, and potentially campaign finance reform, all of which will require […]


February 21, 2024 - How the State created unaffordable housing crisis

By Lars Larson NW and national radio host Oregon desperately needs new housing. Government created this problem so more government seems unlikely to fix it. Two things made it happen. For more than 50 years, the government artificially and unnecessarily locked up land with Senate Bill 100 and Urban Growth […]


February 19, 2024 - HB 4059 is bad for farmers

Please join us in opposing HB 4059 with the -7 amendment to restrict GE crops! By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, HB 4059 was supposed to implement solutions for coexistence between specialty seed and canola growers based on a workgroup that was initiated by legislation last session. The -7 amendment would […]