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Michael Dunne: I’m Michael Dunne. It was called “the one big, beautiful bill,” and it promised massive tax cuts for America. But to many in the states, the beauty was only in the eye of the federal government. Here in Oregon, a group of legislators is going so far as to try to detach the state from the federal law. Today on the show, you’ll hear from a key sponsor of that proposal and from a business group that opposes it. It’s a battle between the federal government and the state over who gets to decide Oregon tax policy.
Then, in the second part of the show, our own Rachel McDonald talks about a recent tragic accident in Eugene and how a coalition of residents and officials is trying to improve road safety.…