Logic-Free #Taxation Madness!

#EnergySources are literally not where the rubber meets the road.

As far as structural maintenance costs for #road #transportation systems go, #tire usage – by weight – much more closely tracks real costs, #fiscal and #environmental.

Whether powered by cow farts, fossils, or fusion, all road users have #tires.

#Corporations hate this idea. Guess why.

#Oregon #GovKotek #specialsession #Orpol #ORBOT #TinaKotek

#DJT admin withholding hundreds of millions in already allocated #federalfunding to #schools prompts response statement from #Oregon governor.

“At best, the #TrumpAdministration has hobbled schools’ ability to prepare for the upcoming school year. At worst, this is another #threat to force our hand, aimed directly at Oregon’s most marginalized #students,” said #GovKotek. “It will not work. I will not back down from a fight or waver in my commitment to the promise of all Oregon students.”

Read more at:

https://portlandtribune.com/2025/07/02/kotek-responds-to-trump-administrations-withholding-of-federal-education-funding/

Kotek responds to Trump administration’s withholding of federal education funding

Oregon’s governor has responded to an unprecedented halt to federal education funding. The title funding provided by the United States Department of Education is supposed to be released at the beginning of the new fiscal year, on July 1, and is incorporated into the budget of the Oregon Department of Education. On June 30, the […]

The Portland Tribune

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/OROEM/bulletins/3dd7927

#OEM Says Federal Cancellation of Grant Program Impedes #Oregon's Ability to Prepare for #Disasters

#GovKotek: “These are bipartisan or nonpartisan community projects that everybody supports. I have not heard one rationale from the Trump Administration as to why they cancelled the #BRICgrants.”

#disasterreadiness #disastermanagement #ORpol #PDXpol #PDX

OEM Says Federal Cancellation of Grant Program Impedes Oregon's Ability to Prepare for Disasters   

Oregon Department of Emergency Management