PCC and the 2009 Legislature
Dana Haynes can be reached at: dana.haynes@pcc.edu
The purpose of this blog is to provide accurate information about Portland Community College's lobbying effort during the 2009 legislature.
Dana Haynes, spokesman for PCC, joined the college in June 2007 after 20 years spent in Oregon newspaper newsrooms.
(Records 1 to 10 of 113 results.)- Post-session town halls are good ways to catch up with lawmakers
- July 06, 2009
- Now 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...
- We're outta here -- the Legislature adjourns for 2009
- June 30, 2009
- Boom. 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...
- Blog: The budget for Oregon's 17 community colleges
- June 29, 2009
- The 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...
- K-12 feud between governor, Legislature is over
- June 26, 2009
- The 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-...
- K-12 imbroglio leaes Legislature in limbo
- June 25, 2009
- I 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...
- Rep. Kotek slates town hall
- June 24, 2009
- The 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...
- Education center at Cascade gets OK by committee
- June 23, 2009
- Oh, 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 ...
- Blog: The community colleges' budget has passed through Ways and Means
- June 22, 2009
- Just 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...
- Crazy last weeks of the legislative session
- June 19, 2009
- This 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...
- Budget-writing committee releases the budget for community colleges
- June 17, 2009
- Holy 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...