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With Morse named to "Dirty Dozen" list, Rayfield is the clear choice for voters
Katy Daily | August 30, 2010 - 13:35

Today, Oregon State Senator Frank Morse, who represents Albany and Corvallis, made the national League of Conservation Voters’ inaugural state-level “Dirty Dozen” list, a list of12 of the most anti-environment candidates in the country running for state office. Senator Morse won out over hundreds of candidates submitted from state leagues across the

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Ted Wheeler for State Treasurer
Katy Daily | May 13, 2010 - 15:22

Of the some 75 endorsements OLC V has made for 2010, one that may have flown under the radar is our endorsement for Ted Wheeler for Oregon State Treasurer. But what role does the state treasurer have in protecting Oregon’s environment and why is Ted Wheeler the environmental candidate?

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Clearing up confusion about Measures 66 & 67
Katy Daily | December 11, 2009 - 07:24

Yesterday I received a few emails that show that the mis-information from the opposition to Measures 66&67 is confusing Oregon voters.  Here is an email I received from a woman named Lois:

This bill needs to be reworked.  It will break the backs of Oregon farmers! How about looking at the long term consequences.

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What's NOT wrong with this TV ad?
Katy Daily | November 10, 2009 - 12:56

An ad against soda taxes is bad enough, but check out the plastic bag consumption.

If you are anything like me (an obsessive compulsive re-user/recycler), watching TV can be difficult. Any show that features someone with writer’s block invariably includes a scene involving the actor wadding up a piece of paper (who types anymore?) and throwing it away in the garbage can.  And then there are the reality shows, where you realize the rest of the country really doesn’t get it.

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Bottle Bill expansion in 2007 = Local green jobs in 2010
Katy Daily | October 29, 2009 - 16:30

The community of St Helens. Oregon will gain 50 stable family-wage jobs next year when the construction of a plastic-bottle recycling plant is completed. Those jobs can be linked to the work OLCV and the Oregon Conservation Network did in the 2007 Legislative Session to expand Oregon's landmark bottle bill to include bottled water.

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