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BRIEFLY
Measure 97 worries health care providers
researchers in Central
Oregon say they are
surprised and disappointed
that the Newberry
Geothermal Energy site
didn’t make it to the next
round.
The location near the
volcano was leased by
Seattle-based AltaRock
Energy Inc.
Washington:
Railroads must
show they can
handle oil spills
OLYMPIA, Wash.
(AP) — Washington’s
Department of Ecology
has adopted a new rule
requiring that railroads
shipping oil through the
state demonstrate that they
can immediately respond to
any spills.
The department said
Thursday the rule takes
effect Oct. 1, and it brings
railroads into line with rules
for companies moving oil by
pipeline and by vessel.
Railroads will have
to provide Ecology with
contingency plans detailing
steps the railroad will take
if oil spills or a substantial
risk of a spill occurs during
transport. Oficials say
they’ll review each plan and
require that they be tested
through appropriate drills.
The state says California
and Minnesota have
implemented similar laws
for railroads.
This fall, Washington is
also beginning to require
that facilities receiving
shipments of crude oil
by rail notify Ecology,
which will share notice of
those plans with local irst
responders.
A corporate sales tax
measure on November’s
ballot
would
ensnare
some for-proit medical
providers, who say it could
drive up the cost of care and
limit the options for elderly
and low-income patients.
At the same time,
providers say, similar
practices with different
corporate structures would
escape the tax and be placed
at a competitive advantage.
“The unevenness of this
tax is ridiculous,” said Dr.
Craig Fausel, CEO of the
Oregon Clinic. “We totally
support that the state needs
more reliable funding. We
would be willing to pay a
lower level tax that included
everybody.”
Measure 97 would affect
only “C” corporations,
such as the Oregon Clinic,
imposing a 2.5 percent
tax on their Oregon sales
exceeding $25 million.
It is expected to raise $3
billion a year.
Supporters say it largely
targets massive, out-of-state
corporations.
Yet the proposal also
means multi-million dollar
tax hikes for certain home-
grown, physician-owned
clinics in Oregon,
Fausel, whose large
specialty practice serves
the Portland metro area,
PORTLAND (AP)
— The city on Thursday
evicted about 200 or 300
homeless people who
have been camping along
a popular 21-mile bike
and pedestrian trail after
complaints from neighbors
and concerns about
environmental damage.
Portland has struggled in
recent months with camping
across the city. It faces
a shortage of affordable
housing as well as a lack of
emergency shelter beds.
The sweep of the
Springwater Corridor, which
stretches from southeast
Portland to Boring,
previously was set for Aug.
1, but homeless advocates
asked for more time to ind
the campers alternative
places to live.
The city and outreach
workers began meeting with
homeless people six weeks
ago, but many still said they
weren’t sure where they
were going.
Craig Alexenko, 54, said
he wasn’t sure where he
could go. He sat on a pile
of garbage that homeless
people had left behind as
city workers and volunteers
moved through a large ield
and roped off sections of the
encampment with yellow
police tape.
“I need to get into
housing. I’ve been on the
streets too long,” he said.
The sweep will take days
on the 14-mile section of
the trail that’s been targeted,
said Chad Stover, the city’s
livability project manager.
The scene was calm
and quiet with little police
presence. City workers and
volunteers carried armloads
of belongings for campers
and helped them load them
into shopping carts, bags and
roller suitcases.
BEND (AP) — A site
near Oregon’s Newberry
Volcano is no longer in
the running for a federal
enhanced geothermal
research laboratory.
The Bulletin reports that
the Wednesday decision
by the U.S. Department of
Energy left sites in Utah and
Nevada competing for the
lab.
The department put
$29 million into research
by a Sandia National
Laboratories team in
Fallon, Nevada, and the
University of Utah’s team
in Milford, Utah. The
investment is meant to help
the organizations prepare for
an underground geothermal
research lab.
Developers and
estimates he’d be hit with
a $4.2 million tax increase,
“just… because we are
unfortunate enough to be a
‘C’corp.”
Meanwhile,
other
for-proit medical practices
in the state, with compa-
rable services and size, face
no increase.
The disparity is based
solely on the clinics’ corpo-
rate structure and how they
pay their taxes, choices that
many clinics made years
before Measure 97 came on
the horizon.
Women’s Health Asso-
ciates is a limited liability
company that elected to pay
its taxes as a C corporation.
Under Measure 97, the
Portland-area practice faces
a corporate tax increase of
more than $1 million, said
CEO Brian Kelly.
In contrast, Hematology
and Oncology of Salem, a
limited liability company
that pays taxes as a part-
nership, is not subject to
the tax, even though the
practice generates nearly
$40 million in sales each
year.
Paying taxes as a partner-
ship allows proits lowing
to the partners to be taxed
at their personal income tax
rate, said partner Dr. Bud
Pierce.
Pierce, who is the GOP
nominee for governor, has
come out against the tax,
even though his cancer
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Large homeless
camp in Portland
cleared out
Oregon location
eliminated
in search for
geothermal lab site
SALEM
(AP)
—
Campaign stops made by
Oregon’s candidates for
governor show contrasting
strategies for the upcoming
election.
A list of oficial stops
from Democratic Gov.
Kate Brown’s campaign
primarily includes Oregon
cities where the electorate
is concentrated, as well as
major cities in California
and on the East Coast, The
Statesman Journal reported.
Brown’s
interactions
with citizens aren’t limited
to oficial campaign stops,
according to a statement
from Brown’s spokes-
woman. Brown’s position
as governor means she visits
Oregonians across the state,
the statement said.
Republican Bud Pierce,
a cancer doctor in Salem,
has made ive times as many
oficial stops as Brown. His
campaign has visited small,
rural communities and
included a stop in Stevens,
Washington, and a visit to
a Republican Governors
Association conference in
Aspen, Colorado.
The campaigns seem
to be following classic
strategies so far, said Jim
Moore, a Paciic University
professor and director of
the Tom McCall Center for
Policy Research.
“Brown’s acting like an
incumbent. She basically
has nailed down 50 percent
of the electorate if she
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said the California and
East Coast stops included
fundraisers.
Christopher
Larimer, a political science
professor and candidate
behavior specialist at the
University of Northern
Idaho, said candidates for
statewide ofice are increas-
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more taxes.
“Without
Measure
97, affordable healthcare
remains out of reach for
hundreds of thousands of
Oregonians,” Driessen said.
“With Measure 97, we will
be able to provide quality,
affordable care for Orego-
nians.”
But some in the medical
community say it could
have just the opposite
effect.
The Oregon Medical
Association
voted
in
mid-July
to
oppose
Measure 97 based on
“serious concerns about
how Measure 97, if passed,
would affect Oregon’s
healthcare providers, and by
extension, their patients.”
“The regressive nature
of Measure 97 would mean
that our patients, especially
those with lower incomes,
could
face
additional
barriers to accessing quality
care at a reasonable price,”
the association said in a
statement. “The cost of
healthcare is already a great
burden on families. We
believe Measure 97 would
compound the problem.”
Brad Wakeield, CEO of
Corvallis Clinic, said one of
the problems with the tax
measure is that it taxes sales
rather than proits. Corvallis
Clinic, which operates in
Corvallis and Albany, also
faces a signiicant tax hike
under the measure.
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sticks to the big towns,” he
said. He explained that it’s
more important for Pierce
to campaign in small towns
to reach as many voters as
possible.
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Wednesday, Pierce said
most of his future campaign
efforts will focus on
“battleground counties” like
Clackamas, Washington and
Multnomah. “That’s where
the race is going to be won
or lost,” he said.
Brown’s
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
clinic, which would not be
affected by Measure 97,
might gain a competitive
advantage.
Under Measure 97,
about 30 out of 1,366 tax
return ilers who are catego-
rized as health care or social
services would see their
corporate taxes climb from
about $8 million per year
to $104 million per year,
said Paul Warner, director
of the Legislative Revenue
Ofice. Some of those ilers
are corporations that ile
a consolidated tax return
for multiple subsidiaries,
Warner noted.
Consumers would pay
about half of the cost of the
tax increase in the form of
higher prices, according to
Warner’s estimates.
In total, the tax is
projected to cost an Oregon
household between $372
and $1,282 per year in the
form of higher prices and
fewer employment oppor-
tunities, according to a May
study by the Legislative
Revenue Ofice.
Our
Oregon,
the
advocacy group backing
the
measure,
wants
revenue from the tax to be
earmarked for health care,
in addition to education and
senior services.
Katherine
Driessen,
a spokeswoman for Our
Oregon, said large corpo-
rations, such as Oregon
Clinic, can afford to pay
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