Big targets in budget plan

Deer Ridge prison is among them, but local legislators are ‘optimistic'

By Nick Budnick / The Bulletin
February 2, 2011

Gov. John Kitzhaber on Tuesday unveiled a broad-brush austerity 2011-13 budget that proposes holding down state spending while relying on reforms that have neither been crafted nor approved to preserve school days and health care for needy Oregonians. Kitzhaber proposes to divvy up more than....

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