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Cigarette tax jump may help state kids

WASHINGTON — Federal funding to cover uninsured Oregon children could double, under a U.S. Senate plan announced by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., on Friday evening.

The State Children’s Health Insurance Program would see a roughly $35 billion increase, to a....

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