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an early sale law passed by
the Legislature. A temporary
25 percent sales tax on these
limited, early sale products
SALEM — Oregon
takes effect Jan. 4, and stores
lawmakers this week ques-
can keep 2 percent of the tax
tioned whether the state
to cover administrative costs,
Department of Revenue will
Galvin said. This will change
be ready to accept massive
to a permanent 17 percent
amounts of cash in 2016,
sales tax, also with a 2 percent
when Oregonians begin
administrative hold back for
paying a sales tax on recre-
stores, when licensed recre-
ational marijuana.
ational marijuana retailers
The department expects
open in late 2016. There is
to collect approximately $1
no tax on pot for medical
million a month, with 40 to
marijuana patients.
80 percent in cash.
The
Department
of
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Revenue will also likely
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a formal security assessment Beginning in January the state will begin collecting ask the Legislature for more
has yet to be conducted by taxes from legal marijuana businesses, most of which money in the 2016 session
collect
recreational
either the Oregon State Police will be paid in cash. The Department of Revenue has to
or an independent security not yet made infrastructure changes necessary to ac- marijuana taxes, Legislative
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Borden said during the
sett, R-Klamath Falls, said
during a hearing by the Joint hearing that “time is not team at the department has hearing. Borden said the
Subcommittee On General on our side here.” Galvin begun work creating a secure /HJLVODWLYH )LVFDO 2I¿FH
Government on Nov. 16 said lawmakers only moved environment,” Galvin said. found the Department of
“You’re going to start getting responsibility for marijuana “They’ve had a structural Revenue might need more
money in January, a couple tax collection from the analysis done for the safe. resources to collect the taxes,
hundred thousand dollars Oregon Liquor Control They’re starting to order but could also streamline its
operations and might be on
in cash a day. When do you Commission, which regu- cameras.”
plan to make that secure, and lates the new recreational pot
Currently, adults age the cusp of hiring employees
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market, to the Department of 21 and older can purchase for duplicative and poten-
John Galvin, a marijuana Revenue in late May.
limited marijuana prod- tially unnecessary jobs.
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By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
LOWELL (AP) — The
Lowell School Board
may soon be considering
changes to a districtwide
ban that prohibits teachers
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classrooms.
The Register-Guard
reports the director of
Lowell’s Mountain View
Academy charter school,
Laurie Cardwell, is
expected to ask the board
Monday to allow teachers
who hold state concealed
weapons permits to carry
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Cardwell has previously
brought the proposal to
Lowell School District
Superintendent Walt
Hanline, who opposes
having guns on campus.
Cardwell is bringing the
issue up again following
last month’s shooting
at Umpqua Community
College, where a gunman
killed nine people before
turning the gun on himself.
Hanline says there are
better ways schools can
improve classroom safety
than arming teachers. He
says the board will discuss
different safety plans at
Monday’s meeting.
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re-appointees, Holly Akenson
of Enterprise, and Michael
Finley of Medford. Akenson is
SALEM — The Oregon a wildlife biologist, manages
Senate voted this week to a tree farm with her husband
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Oregon Fish and Wildlife game hunter, according to
Commission whom Gov. the Department of Fish and
Kate Brown reappointed in Wildlife’s website. Finley is
president of a grant-making
April.
The move was a reversal foundation, and previously
from earlier this year, when served as superintendent of
the Senate Committee on Yellowstone, Yosemite and
Rules delayed action on the Everglades national parks. He
two reappointments over is also a hunter and angler.
Ahead of the vote
concerns that commissioners
had failed to adequately Wednesday, Senate Republi-
oversee the Oregon Depart- cans said they had been under
ment of Fish and Wildlife the impression Brown would
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industry and cattle ranchers ments.
The Senate voted in
had also called for the
governor to appoint commis- 0D\ WR FRQ¿UP WZR RWKHU
sioners who represented their controversial appointees to
perspectives. Commissioners the commission, Astoria resi-
are appointed to represent dent Bruce Buckmaster who
Oregon’s
congressional has ties to the commercial
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districts.
The Senate voted 22-8 on former state lawmaker Jason
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By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
“You cannot continue to
load the board with philo-
sophical people that represent
the big cities,” said state
Sen. Fred Girod, R-Stayton.
“It does not work ... The
legislature deserves a lot of
the credibility for this agency
going down the toilet, and
the governor deserves a lot
of credibility for this agency
going down the toilet. I urge
a ‘no’ vote.”
Girod’s
language
displeased Senate President
Peter Courtney, D-Salem.
“Sen. Ted Ferrioli, try not
using the word toilet, please,”
Courtney said, as the Senate
minority leader from John
Day prepared to speak.
Ferrioli said the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife’s budget trouble is
an indication the commission
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responsibility.
“But there’s another
issue here, and that is the
credibility of the governor
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little rain; however, dry across the north.
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inches in central parts and near the Cascades;
snow and rain, 1-2 inches across the north. Rain
in the south.
Western Washington: A little rain today; in
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rain or snow shower toward the Cascades and
snow and rain across the south.
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LA PINE (AP) — The
city of La Pine’s tax on
medical marijuana might
be illegal.
Attorneys representing
the Oregon Legislature
said in a Nov. 13 letter
that a law adopted by the
Legislature earlier this year
prohibits local government
from taxing medical pot.
La Pine enacted the
tax earlier this year on the
two dispensaries in town.
Randy Huff co-owns one
of them, and says he’s
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and the credibility of the
appointments
secretary,”
Ferrioli said. “Members
who voted unanimously (in
committee) for the last round
of appointments to ODFW
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would be consideration of
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a landowner. That did not
happen. That to me is a breach
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disconnect between credi-
bility of the governor and the
expectation that her asks will
be respected.”
Sen. Lee Beyer, D-Spring-
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do represent hunters and
anglers.
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you have in front of you today
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of them indeed is a property
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won’t provide him with
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medicine.
La Pine City Manager
Rick Allen says the
council plans to review the
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meeting next month.
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Denver
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New York
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Detroit
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Chicago
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Montreal
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 82° in Chino, Calif.
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