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Sobriety checkpoints? Better not

Written February 15th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

On Monday morning, the state Senate Business and Transportation Committee will consider a bill to allow roadblocks to check if drivers are impaired by alcohol or drugs. The legalization of recreational marijuana adds a new wrinkle to the old debate about sobriety checkpoints, but we still don’t need them.


Roundabout plan: ‘It’s too much’

Written February 14th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Decorating Albany’s new Main Street roundabout with a circular wall and wrought-iron fence would cost nearly $130,000, and the city staff thinks the benefit is not worth the expense.

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Bills and more bills in Salem

Written February 13th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

From bills on cougars to the homeless, it’s not as though the troubles of the governor have kept Oregon legislators from adding to the pile of proposed laws. The mountain of legislation keeps growing, even though most of the new bills stand little chance.


The answer: Openness and candor

Written February 13th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

The Kitzhaber affair would not have cascaded into a debacle if he had been forthcoming from the start. So the lesson for public officials once again is this: Complete and utter openness is the only thing that offers any hope of repairing serious mistakes.


Governor Brown: Expect her to act

Written February 13th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

John Kitzhaber’s resignation elevates to the governor’s office Kate Brown, and this raises the possibility and the hope that the executive part of the state government will actually get things done.


Nice screens but, alas, no tunes

Written February 12th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Let us turn away for a moment from the drama at the top of our state government and, instead, cast our eyes upward in the Albany City Council chambers. There, we can admire the latest in visual aids, two high-definition screens on opposite sides of the room.


That’s not believable, Governor

Written February 12th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Governor Kitzhaber evidently thinks of Oregonians as idiots who will believe anything. He now wants us to believe that he called Secretary of State Kate Brown and asked her to hustle back from a conference in Washington, D.C., so he could tell her he was not resigning. Really?


 
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