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In Sunday's Oregonian, Jeff Davis, supt. of Central Curry School Dist., advocated year-round classes, abandoning "the model from the 1920s when were an agricultural society." Do you support this? If so, how can we make it happen?

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I voted yes for both 66 and 67 after seriously thinking about voting no. The tax structure of Oregon needs to be fundamentally changed and I was hoping a no vote would force the legislature to begin that process. But I decided that, in the meantime, essential services would suffer greatly. I think that most politicians are basically cowards, afraid to do anything that might jeopardize their chances for reelection. That's the real reason Oregon is in such desparate straits. But the passage of 66 and 67 gives me some slight hope that legislators may now look at fixing the kicker law as a first step in restructuring our entire fiscal policy.

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