by Web Editor | Apr 17, 2015 | News, News/PR
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised the Senate’s move Tuesday night to extend a lifeline to rural Oregon communities with final passage of a two-year renewal of the Secure Rural Schools program. “This extension ends months of uncertainty for Oregon’s rural communities,...
by Web Editor | Feb 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, introduced legislation Thursday that would reinstate timber payments for rural counties for three years. The bill, called the Secure Rural Schools and Payment in Lieu of Taxes Repair Act, would provide funding at 2011...
by Web Editor | Dec 15, 2014 | News, News/PR
One word sums up the reaction across Oregon to the news that funding for the timber counties was dropped from a federal spending bill: frustration. “I’m very disappointed,” House Republican Leader Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, said. “It seems...