Politics editor
Dee Lane is an editor with The Oregonian's Enterprise team. She oversees state government and political coverage.
The latest Truth-O-Meter items from Dee Lane
Says "I am happy to decline PERS so that the County can save over $68,000 over a four year term that would have been paid on my behalf."
Says Jeff Reardon cut elementary school music classes, art instruction, teaching positions, basketball and volleyball programs, and he voted to raise school lunch prices.
Says "One-third of our healthcare dollars go to wasteful insurance billing and bureaucracy."
Says "Schaufler was the only Democrat who voted to stop" the state’s health care reform plan.
Says he "is the only candidate in the race for Clackamas County Chair who will refuse to join the Public Employees Retirement System."
Says "I never billed a single hour of my time to the City of Portland in the last 10 years -- so, no revolving door."
Says the mayor’s job "is to make sure that if somebody is trying to build a set of water treatment plants to cure us from cryptosporidium we don’t have, we don't say yes even if CH2M Hill wants us to."
Says we could have saved ourselves the cost of building the Powell Butte water reservoir.
Says "I don’t agree with Mr. Hales that we should give a sweeping break to the developers to allow them to build that infill housing without paying for those very basics."
Say that under state law, "systems development charges can only be spent on capital investment."
Recent stories from Dee Lane
Fact-checking claims in the 1st Congressional DistrictThe election is almost over. Here we offer our fact checks in a race defined by claims about Medicare, partisanship and taxes.
Our newest truth-telling tool: The Kitz-O-MeterGovernor-elect John Ktizhaber made more than a couple promises during last year's campaign season. We know, because we went through his statements, speeches, ads and position papers looking for them. Over the next four years, we'll be keeping an eye on whether Kitzhaber is keeping those promises.
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