Eastern Oregon News
Glaze: strings attached to funds a big problem
When state lawmakers announced their budget proposal earlier this week, it was supposed to provide school districts with a little good news- a slight increase in funding over the last biennual budget. But La Grande Superintendent Larry Glaze says the budget has left most school officials with even more questions- mostly because the extra funding comes with so many strings attached: ***/Glaze budget/Larry Glaze/…It’s when the starts attaching strings to money that it hamstrings us at the local level. So, there’s a lot of questions out there that are unanswered…/*** Lawmakers had hoped to pass the school portion of the budget in the next two weeks, but school officials hope they wait until June to try and find more money.
Gas Prices
Gas prices continue to rise this weekMarie Dodds at the Triple-A says as long as crude oil prices remain above 90-dollars a barrel...gas prices will remain high. Diesel prices in Oregon were steady at 3-37.minimum wage
If you make minimum wage you’re getting a raise January 1st – a dime an hour. The new minimum wage for Oregon will be 8-dollars and 50-cents. It’s estimated the raise will affect about 121-throusand workers. Only Washington state and the cities of San Francisco and Santa Fe, New Mexico have a higher minimum wage than Oregon. The federal minimum wage is 7-dollars and 25-cents an hour. Geiser Grand
Japan is one day ahead of the US - so Wednesday was New Year’s Eve...and a Japanese T-V show called "Unbelievable" was live from an Oregon hotel...the Geiser Grand in Baker City. Co-owner Barbara Sidway says the hotel is haunted and the show hopes to catch some ghosts doing the haunting. Like party ghosts. Length: 00:00:16.0 outcue: "it stops"Description: barbara sidway.<psi_end_object> Sidway says they will post a copy of the show on the website - geiser grand dot com - by January first.Baum-Walden
U.S. Congressman Greg Walden has named La Grande native Ray Baum to be his Senior Policy Adviser. Baum is currently the chairman of the Oregon Public Utility Commission. He will join Walden’s staff in Washington D.C. on January 17th. Walden is their Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and said Baum’s experience with those areas and the Federal Communications Commission in particular will be of great help to him. |