The papers tell us that President Obama “still intends to act on his own to change immigration policy,” though he’s no longer sure just when he’ll do this. In this case his dithering may make some kind of sense. Perhaps he realizes that he might be making a big mistake by going ahead.
Here’s a new installment in the old story of bulky junk being dumped along our roadsides, or even in the woods.
With the deadline one day away, the paving crew on Albany’s Main Street project was working hard Thursday to finish the job by the time the city has promised.
If Verizon customers around southwest Albany want better reception, as some say they do, they should have shown up at Wednesday’s public hearing before the city council and supported the company’s application to to build a 120-foot cell tower near Pacific Boulevard and 53rd Avenue. But they didn’t.
Albany now has a sister-city relationship with Santa Maria Huatulco, a fabulous resort community on the southwest Pacific coast of Mexico. This brings up some thoughts about what’s going on in America’s and Oregon’s relationship with Mexico as a nation as well.
One of the candidates trying to challenge Albany Mayor Sharon Konopa turned out to be ineligible, leaving two others on the ballot along with the mayor.
On I-5: What’s my lane?
There is no shortage of lines marking the lanes in this spot on Interstate 5. The trick is to know which ones count. If it looks a little confusing at first glance, it really isn’t. And it also gives the lie, at least in Oregon, to the freely bandied-about allegation that we’re not keeping our roads […]
Tags: freeway repairs, highway construction, Interstate 5, Oregon Department of Transportation