Oregon school districts won’t have to decide whether to outfit school buses with video cameras to record law-breaking drivers who fail to stop when the red lights are on. A bill to allow this has died.
Now that an Albany work group has recommended where the old Main Street church should be moved and partially restored, the hard part of this venture begins: Designing the new site and coming up with the money.
The saga of Oregon’s regulation of dry land as “waters of the state” continues, this time in Millersburg, where the Department of State Lands has taken enforcement action on two subdivisions.
Let’s check in once again on Edgewater Village. There, the Albany urban renewal program has just increased its investment in the project, and construction is under way on the first two houses along the Dave Clark Path.
Downtown Albany will once again offer bed-and-breakfast accommodations in one of the big historic houses downtown, and the CARA urban renewal district has decided to help.
Albany’s urban renewal agency has received word of an offer by the Albany Eagles to sell the city their lodge, a property shown in a city plan as a key site to provide more downtown parking.
House OKs campus culture bill
The Oregon House Wednesday approved a bill calling for “cultural competency standards” at all public universities and community colleges by the end of 2020. The bill is a model of vagueness, but its opponents fear it will lead to campus suppression of free speech and thought.
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