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The defeat follows a hard-fought campaign that broke Oregon's spending record for ballot initiatives and pitted business interests against the state's largest public employee unions. 

Measure 97 would charge certain C corporations a 2.5 percent tax on their gross annual sales in Oregon above $25 million. The measure called for the state to spend the new revenue on education, health care and senior services.

Current growth fueled by jobs

By Kathleen McLaughlin, The Bulletin

Published Oct 24, 2016 at 05:40PM / Updated Oct 24, 2016 at 05:54PM

Central Oregonians who lived through the last housing-market crash might wonder whether the region is setting up for another big collapse.

Oregon proposes drop in workers’ comp rates

By Kathleen McLaughlinThe Bulletin Published Sep 23, 2016 at 12:01AM / Updated Sep 23, 2016 at 08:41AM   

Workers’ compensation insurance rates would drop for the fourth straight year in 2017 under a proposal by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services.

The average rate, before insurers’ profits and other expenses, would decline by 7.2 percent, from $1.10 per $100 of payroll to $1.02 per $100, according to a department announcement... Read More