The Toledo, Oregon City Council voted on November 6 to give Georgia-Pacific a 15-year property tax exemption in return for investment in an existing plant there.
“This is Extortion”: Koch Industries Gets Another Tax Break
By Don Wiener | at
Economy
Koch Network Dominates SPN Annual Meeting Attendees
By David Armiak | at
Right-wing policy network gathers in Colorado Springs to advance anti-labor, climate denial, and anti-disclosure agenda.
Bill to Criminalize Environmental Protests in Wisconsin Heads to the Assembly Floor
By David Armiak | at
The Wisconsin State Assembly will convene for the first time this fall today to consider a bill backed by the oil industry and the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Backlash Against Koch Agenda Leads to Recall Drive Against Alaska Governor
By Don Wiener and Arn Pearson | at
Grassroots opposition to draconian budget cuts orchestrated by the Kochs’ influence machine gain steam, putting Governor Dunleavy’s political future in question.
Revealed: ALEC’s Health and Human Services Task Force Legislative Members
By David Armiak | at
Many of the task force legislative members will be attending ALEC’s Life Sciences Academy this week with undisclosed drug industry representatives.
Pay-to-Play Group Garnered Sackler’s Access to Attorneys General Deciding their Fate
By Scott Zimmerman | at
The makers of an opioid tied to 400,000 deaths had special access to the attorneys general that chose to take their “sweetheart deal” — saving the owners of the company from admitting wrongdoing — thanks to a pay-for-play group called the Republican Attorneys General Association.
Massachusetts Law Could Blunt the Effect of Janus’s Attack on Unions
By Don Wiener | at
On September 19, the Massachusetts legislature overrode Republican Governor Charlie Baker’s veto of a bill that would help public employee unions maintain dues-paying members.
Workers Lose in Koch’s Georgia-Pacific Restructuring
By Don Wiener | at
Koch Industries’ paper subsidiary cuts more than 2,100 jobs in the past two years, with taxpayers left holding the bill.
ALEC Doubles Down on Trump, Corporate Agenda at Annual Meeting in Texas
By David Armiak | at
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meets this week in Austin, the capital of the Lone Star State, for its 46th Annual Meeting at the posh JW Marriott hotel.
Oregon Strengthens Public Workers’ Right to Organize
By Don Wiener | at
New post-Janus law helps level the playing field in Oregon in the face of right-wing campaigns to weaken public sector unions.