http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfmPCC and the 2009 LegislatureTransformation of Dapp into RSSinfo@dapper.netSat, 21 Nov 2009 11:45:23 +0000http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfm?BrowseBy=display&NewsNo=leg 114Post-session town halls are good ways to catch up with lawmakersJuly 06, 2009Now that the legislators have gone home, this is a good time to get their views on how the session went and where we go from here. Sen. Diane Rosenbaum will hold a town hall from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 7, at SEIU Local 49, 3536 SE 26th A...http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfm?BrowseBy=display&NewsNo=leg 113We're outta here -- the Legislature adjourns for 2009June 30, 2009Boom. Gonesville. The 2009 Legislature adjourned sine die last night at 9:45 p.m. "Sine die" is Latin for "without a day." Basically, at the end of every floor session, the Speaker of the House or the Senate President (or...http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfm?BrowseBy=display&NewsNo=leg 112Blog: The budget for Oregon's 17 community collegesJune 29, 2009The budget for Oregon's 17 community colleges has just passed on the House floor and now goes to the governor for his signature. At $450.5 million, it's about a 10 percent cut in what we received in the 2007-09 biennium. For PCC, it comes to appr...http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfm?BrowseBy=display&NewsNo=leg 111K-12 feud between governor, Legislature is overJune 26, 2009The great K-12 debate is over. Gov. Ted Kulongoski vetoed the Legislature’s budget for K-12 public schools. But now both the Senate and, as of today, the House have overridden his veto. In the House, the vote to override passed 51-...http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfm?BrowseBy=display&NewsNo=leg 110K-12 imbroglio leaes Legislature in limboJune 25, 2009I had predicted that the final gavel-fall of the 2009 session – known as sine die – would take place at 3 p.m. Thursday, June 25. Today. That, of course, was before the K-12 budget imbroglio: the governor’s veto, the Senate&rsq...http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfm?BrowseBy=display&NewsNo=leg 109Rep. Kotek slates town hallJune 24, 2009The Legislature is likely to wrap up this week – or not, depending on the kerfuffle over the K-12 budget and the governor’s veto. Meanwhile, Rep. Tina Kotek, whose district is in the Cascade Campus vicinity, is planning two more town hal...http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfm?BrowseBy=display&NewsNo=leg 108Education center at Cascade gets OK by committeeJune 23, 2009Oh, man! We just got a piece of incredible good news from the Legislature. We’d asked for a matching grant to help pay for a Center for Careers in Education on the Cascade Campus. At about 10:30 a.m. today (Tuesday, June 23), we were told ...http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfm?BrowseBy=display&NewsNo=leg 107Blog: The community colleges' budget has passed through Ways and MeansJune 22, 2009Just before the noon hour today (Monday, June 22), the budget for Oregon’s 17 independent community colleges passed through the full Ways and Means Committee with no cuts to the recommended $450.5 million. The budget now goes before the fu...http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfm?BrowseBy=display&NewsNo=leg 106Crazy last weeks of the legislative sessionJune 19, 2009This is classic last-week-of-session material. It’s been an awfully tough week so, Thursday, I decided to stay home in the morning, do a little fiction writing, play with my cats. And as soon as my coffee pot gets perking, I get the emerge...http://www.pcc.edu/news/NewsRelease-legislature.cfm?BrowseBy=display&NewsNo=leg 105Budget-writing committee releases the budget for community collegesJune 17, 2009Holy smokes. The Education Sub-Committee of the budget-writing Ways and Means Committee voted out a budget for Oregon’s 17 community colleges this morning. I had written in earlier blogs that the number might be as low as $425 mill...