News Digest
Friday, June 22, 2007 10:52 AM PDT
OREGON - Senate signs off on
package of tax credits
SALEM (AP) — The Oregon Senate signed off Thursday on an array of tax credits that add up to an estimated $22.4 million in money that won’t be paid to the state over the next two years. The credits include increases in the amount of tax-deductible money that can be contributed to a college savings account and a permanent exclusion of the value of land used for fishing, forestry and farming in the calculation of estate taxes.
Oregon Supreme Court upholds DNA profiling
PORTLAND (AP) — Collecting DNA samples from convicted felons to build a profiling database does not violate constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
IDAHO
Historic trees cut down to allow Capitol renovation
BOISE (AP) — Trees planted by Presidents William Howard Taft and Benjamin Harrison have been cut down as part of the renovation of Idaho’s Capitol, but the wood will be used in the new building.
State and tribe differ on numbers of Lake Coeur d’Alene kokanee
COEUR D’ALENE (AP) — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game plans to catch kokanee in Lake Coeur d’Alene in August to find out if the fish are declining, which could cause the season for the prized sport fish to end early this year.
THE WEST
State seeks to boost
minority college
enrollment
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State higher education officials are asking lawmakers for more than $10 million to help boost minority enrollment at the state’s public colleges and universities.
Minorities make up about 17 percent of the state’s population, but only represent about 8 percent of the student population at public post-secondary schools.
Num wrote on Jun 3, 2008 10:41 AM: