By Dirk VanderHart, includes “Worries over a potential funding gap in Oregon’s next two-year budget turned into a different sort of problem on March 11. … All in all, the framework presents a far sunnier outlook than lawmakers once expected. … ‘We were looking at using significant reserves to balance the budget,’ said state Rep. Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, who co-chairs the legislative budget committee. Now, he said, Oregon is ‘not just merely marching in time with these ongoing pandemic and wildfire crises… we’re able to actually proactively look at investments.’ …”