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Clackamas hopes for budget to be on the rise
FRANK JORDAN
News Editor
Another special session of the
Oregon Legislature is due to meet
in Salem, sometime this month,
and until a state budget decision
is reached by lawmakers, com
munity colleges in the state,
including Clackamas, are hang
ing on to hope. Hope that law
makers will not slash budgets
even further than what already
may happen.
The state of Oregon faces, at last
estimate, an $880 million short
fall in the 2001-03 biennium
budget.
Governor John
Kitzhaber has proposed a plan
that would add a surcharge to
state income taxes for the next
three, years, borrowing from the
national tobacco settlement,
increasing the cigarette tax by 50
cents a pack and cutting the cor
porate income tax, a cut triggered
by a change in federal tax laws
that are aimed at benefiting busi present time is projected to reach
$1.3 billion, if current income
ness.
“Until we are informed by the levels hold.
In November, Oregon elects a
state on how much money we can
governor,
and both
count on receiving, we are in new
limbo at the present,” said Democrat Ted Kulongoski and
College President Earl “Joe” Republican Kevin Mannix have
Johnson. “There is always a particular ideas when it comes to
chance that the cuts will remain dealing with the state’s current
the same, but we have to plan for budget crisis.
Kulongoski would like to see
all possibilities.”
President Johnson also stated cuts in the capital gains tax to
that “in a worst-case scenario, we help stimulate the economy and
would have to look at major is in favor of an income tax
budget cuts in every department, increase, while Mannix would
and consider an additional $1-3- like to see the state- borrow
tuition increase to take effect dur against the tobacco settlement to
ing the middle of the next school help fund some of the shortfall.
year, on top of the $1 increase During the primary season,
that will take place Fall term of Mannix said that he would
oppose any tax increases if he
2002.”
Not only is the state looking at were elected, but didn’t offer any
the large budget deficit in the cur specific» plans to help solve
rent biennium, legislators may Oregon’s budget problems.
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also have to deal with an even
larger shortfall in the 2003-05 fmj68@hotmail.com or drop by
biennium. That deficit at the B-104.
The faith, search continues
SALENADELA CRUZ
Design Editor
In a quiet neighborhood people
are waiting patiently for news
that Ashley Pond and Miranda
Gaddis, the two missing Oregon
City girls, are still alive, but as
summer begins and the tips and
leads are fading, people are still
previous issues. They will be
taping segments on Pond and
Gaddis throughout July and
August. “Unsolved Mysteries'” is
famous for finding out the
unknown and will be doing a seg
ment on the girls this summer as
well. Hopefully, the girls will be
found before Fall Term, other
wise The Print will be running up
to date stories beginning October.
Spring Term Final Exams: June 10-15
Still Missing, but you can help.
If you have information that could help
this case please call 1-800-822-0962.
left with questions. Where are
these girls and when they might
be coming home may begin to be
replaced with if they will ever
come home again.
No one knows if or when Pond
and Gaddis will be walking
through their doors, or if found,
if they will even be able to do so.
Two strange incidences that
began with people thinking Pond
was a runaway, then spiraling
into a nightmare that families and
community members hope to
have disappear with the reappear
ance of the girls.
“The Montel Williams Show”
has gotten involved, as stated m
Readers should keep their eyes
peeled for anything out of the
ordinary and let authorities know
if they suspect someone or some
thing. Someone out there could
have the information to crack the
case wide open.
So, there is no new hope forth
coming. The leads have started
to fade away; the tip line has
gone all but silent and the people
of the community still wait.
They wait for an answer that may
or may not come, but for the sake
of the families involved they con
tinue. They continue searching,
pleading and hoping that Pond
and Gaddis will be found.
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