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Bills: Budget problems are a
big concern for lawmakers
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forest management.
“There’s probably going to be bills
on both sides of the issue,” Rep. Paul
Holvey, D-Eugene, said.
Republicans in the House of Repre
sentatives have said they will reintro
duce a bill that would double the
amount of logging in the Tillamook
and Clatsop state forests.
Holvey said it is important for the
state to take a strong stance on what to
do in Oregon forests because of the
balance that must be created between
the need for forest conservation and
the need for increased logging and the
jobs it brings.
“There’s a balance there that we do
need to recognize and I don’t think
we’re going to get that direction from
our federal government,” Holvey said.
Barnhart said the Oregon Board of
Forestry should handle the controver
sy surrounding Oregon’s forests.
It is crucial to reach a balance be
tween logging and conservation, Barn
hart said, but allowing political mo
tives to govern what happens in the
forests is a mistake and has devastated
state forests in the past.
“We have a failure in politics on
that issue,” Barnhart said. “We need
to get a scientifically managed plan
for our forests.”
There is need for logging in some
roadless areas because of an overabun
dance of trees but it is necessary to
control the logging to prevent over
cutting, Barnhart said.
“That way we can preserve beauti
ful Oregon and we can also get some
money out of it, too,” he said.
Prozanski agreed that the Oregon
Board of Forestry should regulate
state forests.
“We should try to allow these state
agencies, boards and commissions to
do the work that they are in place to
do,” Prozanski said.
Also on the legislative agenda is an
examination of Measure 37, which has
been the subject of much conversation
at the city level, lawmakers say, be
cause of how complicated and am
biguous the measure is.
The measure, which went into effect
Dec. 2, requires the government to
compensate property owners for any
property value reductions they may
face because of a zone change or
land development.
“There’s no doubt that there’s some
ambiguity that needs to be reviewed
and addressed,” Prozanski said.
“Cities, counties and other govern
mental entities need to have that uni
formity on how they’re going to define,
interpret and implement Measure 37.”
Lawmakers will also be grappling
with bills concerning civil unions
and the discrimination of people in
work and housing situations based
on sexual orientation.
Prozanski said he is in support of
civil unions and doesn’t feel the
ban on same-sex marriage includes
civil unions.
“It’s hard for me to understand
how we can discriminate against fel
low Oregonians based on their sexu
al orientation or sexual preference,”
Prozanski said.
Prozanski also discussed the im
portance of improving the health
care system in Oregon by doing as
much as possible on the state level
to mitigate problems.
“We need to level the playing field,”
Prozanski said.
A recent survey by the Oregon
Progress Board reported that one in six
Oregonians don’t have health insur
ance. The number of people covered
by the Oregon Health Plan has been
decreasing and both Barnhart and
Prozanski identified the state health
care crisis as an important issue that
must be addressed.
Ackerman also stressed the need
to tackle the health care crisis but
emphasized that many issues can
not get the attention they deserve
this legislative season because of
state budget problems.
“You can drop a bill and ask for a lot
of stuff but unless you identify a rev
enue source, you might not even get a
hearing this session,” Ackerman said.
Lawmakers agreed there is a need
for a bipartisan effort to accomplish all
their goals.
“We’re trying to work together to
bring our best ideas forward,”
Holvey said.
meghanncuniff@ daily emerald, com
Connecting: Web site allows
for easy 'social bookmarking'
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and research purposes.
del.icio.us, a “social bookmark
ing” tool, is one site that allows
users to save any noteworthy book
marks onto their account. At first
glance, it may not seem too impor
tant to users and students in partic
ular to simply place a link on a site
unless they are in a different loca
tion from where the site was origi
nally bookmarked. But beyond see
ing what links have been saved,
users can also put keywords on the
links that apply to the Web
site, which makes del.icio.us a
powerful tool.
For instance, a student doing re
search on political current events
can find links from every other
del.icio.us user on categories
as vague as “politics” to links per
taining to specific countries
or politicians.
Joshua Schachter, creator of
del.icio.us, said he initially started
the program to simply store book
marks, but he has since added fea
tures and let others modify the site
to fit their needs.
As for keywords and the potential
to make personal content more
searchable, Schachter said, “It's a
useful technique and can be
abused, much like every other way
to organize data for other people;
attention is valuable and people will
always seek to deflect or divert it.”
But organizing life through tech
nology is not always a better solu
tion; one burnt-out student who
no longer depends on technology
to schedule his life is computer
and information science major
Derek Baker.
“At one point I had a Palm for a
year but (organizing) faded out —
I’d always be concerned with bat
tery life or having to write it down
separately,” Baker said. “But now I
scribble on my hand and I see a lot
of people do that. You’ll never lose
the note but it might fade out.”
While some students may not
jump on the bandwagon to organize
and profile their identity on the
Internet, Hennessy said many
students are now embracing
the practice.
“People use blogs where they talk
about everything that’s happened in
their day and their persona is pub
lic,” Hennessy said. “Maybe it’s a
generational thing.”
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