Oregon News: 4/26/05

Bipartisan budget negotiations resume
Gift-card grab gets Senate OK
Mannix challenges utility-purchase plan
Marion commissioners consider what to do with medical waste
Portland trims teaching jobs
Legislature considers undoing ‘time, place and manner’ law
Senate seeks bigger role in appointments
AG announces sentencing on health care fraud conviction
Gorge panel wants court's take on Measure 37
Kulongoski puts emissions plan in gear
Portland mayor leaves chief out of loop
Council to vote on task force pullout
Political Notebook
Foes differ over school choice debate