How may nurseries be affected by the 2011 Oregon Legislature and its revised political landscape? Mitch Lies of the Capital Press (Salem, Ore.) takes a look. Among the legislative priorities for the Oregon Association of Nurseries are protecting the Oregon Department of Agriculture against budget cuts, preventing attempts to regulate immigration (properly a federal matter) […]
State legislators promote ‘anchor baby’ bill
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We reported yesterday that several newly-elected state Legislatures are itching to take on the issue of immigration in the new year. This morning we received word (via CNN) that a group called State Legislators for Legal Immigration is preparing a bill that somehow would take away birthright citizenship for children born in the United States […]
What’s ahead for immigration reform?
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The American Nursery and Landscape Association, the Oregon Association of Nurseries, and other nursery trade associations have worked hard to provide a strong voice for business in the ongoing debate over immigration. These groups have favored comprehensive reform that includes both enforcement, and provision for an ample workforce, but despite support from the last two […]
Oregon, Washington increase minimum wage for 2011
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Oregon’s minimum wage will increase by 10 cents per hour to $8.50, effective January 1, 2011. The 10-cent increase mirrors a 1.15 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index since August 2009, according to a press release (PDF) issued by State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian. Inflation-based minimum wage hikes, rounded to the nearest 5 cents, […]
U.S. appeals court nixes city’s immigration ordinance
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Can cities make up their own rules on immigration? According to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the answer is no. “”It is … not our job to sit in judgment of whether state and local frustration about federal immigration policy is warranted,” Chief Judge Theodore McKee wrote in the majority opinion. “We are, […]
National immigration reform summit is next week in Seattle
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The Pacific Northwest will play host to a regional and national summit on immigration reform next Thursday, Aug. 12. As co-chairman of the Coalition for a Working Oregon, OAN Director of Government Relations Jeff Stone will moderate the first segment of the summit on the topic “The State of Play: How Things Stand in Washington, […]
Nursery people succeed at ballot box
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Two leaders from the Oregon nursery industry – both of them past presidents of the Oregon Association of Nurseries – made strong impressions at the ballot box in Tuesday’s primary election: Kathy LeCompte, the owner of Brooks Tree Farm in Brooks, Ore., with her husband Dave, is running for a seat in the Oregon House […]
Extension services to cease in Lane County
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Oregon State University Extension Service of Lane County has announced that it is shutting down most of its programs by the end of this summer due to the failure of a funding measure in yesterday’s election. Faculty members presently stationed there will be reassigned elsewhere. The official press release: The defeat of Measure 20-158 leaves […]
Writer breaks down the immigration issue
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From reporter Dan Wheat in the Capital Press (Salem, Ore.), Thursday, May 13, 2010: If illegal immigration was an easy issue it would have been solved by now. For most of us who are not immersed in the subject it is easy to adopt the sound bite of the side we lean toward. It’s much […]
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown to speak to OAN members
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The second-highest elected official in Oregon’s state government will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the OAN Government Relations Committee. As secretary of state, Kate Brown works on many issues of importance to nursery growers. For one, she is leading a workgroup that is grappling with the thorny issue of defining public […]
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