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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Climate change saves money

Written December 27th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

While we’re wading through the cold puddles of late December, let’s check in on the climate front. And if you want to know why it’s so hard to take global warming seriously, take a look at the chart below.


What’s ahead on Bottle Bill

Written December 25th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

If you’ve had it with all the Christmas stuff online and elsewhere, how about something completely different? Oregon’s Bottle Bill and how it might work, or no longer work, in a year or two, for instance.


Payroll data: CA makes it easy

Written December 23rd, 2015 by Hasso Hering

California residents were no doubt interested to learn last week that Kern County paid a contract physician more than $1.3 million in 2014, and that in the city of Burbank a police sergeant earned $592,625, making the doctor and the cop the highest paid county and city workers, respectively, in the state. The state controller, […]


Downtown streets: So far it’s talk

Written December 22nd, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Albany hopes to dress up several blocks of downtown streets in order to encourage business, but the plans are still in the talking stage and may change when there’s more information about the cost, which could run into the millions.


After a little rain and wind

Written December 21st, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Looks as though the reconstruction of this section of the Albany Fred Meyer store’s parking lot got finished just in time to test how well the new bio-swales are working in a rainstorm. It also looks as though the builders might have made the inflow opening just a hair lower.

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A welcome moment of bright skies

Written December 20th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

There’s nothing like a break in the clouds when for days we’ve had nothing but dark skies and rain. You appreciate it even more when you’re on a bike ride in December, on a road bike that has no fenders and no place to put them.

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For a friendlier council layout

Written December 18th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

If they asked me, I would recommend changes in the layout of the room where the Albany City Council meets. People might appreciate it if the arrangement did not force councilors and their staff advisers to look down on the common folk below. Seems like in our system it would be more fitting if they […]


 
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