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“This situation highlights a pattern of instability and lack of communication that has worried both providers and patients in our community, and is exactly why we are trying to separate accountants and attorneys and administrators from the responsibility for patient care,” Rep. Nancy Nathanson (D-North Eugene) said in a statement. “We need clear answers about what happened, how many patients may have been affected, and what safeguards will be put in place moving forward.” — OPB article, April 15, 2026
Newly built data centers could be temporarily exempt from Gov. Tina Kotek’s hotly-debated economic stimulus bill that would double the length of property tax exemptions for industries investing in Oregon infrastructure and jobs in urban and suburban “enterprise zones.”
Under an amendment to Kotek-backed House Bill 4084 proposed on Monday by Rep. Nancy Nathanson, D-Eugene, new data centers would not qualify for at least a year for the expanded benefits that change the current five-year property tax exemption to 10 years under the state’s decades-old enterprise zone program. Under the program, businesses are incentivized to set up shop and boost local hiring in select zones across the state, in exchange for a complete property-tax exemption for a set number of years.
—Reported in Portland Tribune Mar. 3, 2026
“As you may know, the Oregon Legislature recently passed Senate Bill 951 to reinforce long-standing protections around the corporate practice of medicine,” says the letter, written by House Majority Leader Ben Bowman, D-Tigard, and state Reps. Lisa Fragala and Nancy Nathanson, both Democrats from Eugene. “We passed this law because Oregonians expect medical decisions to be made in the interest of patients and by clinicians exercising independent professional judgment, not by corporate ownership, which can allow non-clinical control over clinical practice and risk patient health.”