The release of an eye-catching list of possible budget cuts signals the start of the Oregon Legislature's end game: negotiations about taxes and budgets.
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- OPB's senior political reporter Jeff Mapes fills us in on the budget negotiations going on in Salem as lawmakers try to figure out how to find common ground on the best way to close a $1.6 billion budget gap.
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- We get two perspectives on putting a price on carbon, and the broad effects of energy policy on Oregonians: one from environmental justice manager for the Coalition of Communities of Color Maggie Tallmadge, and the other from Ed Finklea, the executive director of Northwest Industrial Gas Users.
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- Kimberly Melton is the author of the essay "Good Hair" in the current issue of Oregon Humanities Magazine. Wearing her hair naturally meant wrestling with societal expectations and her grandmother's disapproval.
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