Paperwork may not be the biggest reason for the high prices in medicine, but I wonder if cutting back on bureaucracy might not be of some use, at least a little.
Magic at the Farmers Market
Written August 9th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
I went downtown to get some peaches at the Albany Farmers Market. I got them, and I also ran into a bit of magic.
Lowe’s wants to change the deal
Written August 9th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Lowe’s proposal to build a store at Ninth and Oak Street has been an expensive proposition for the city of Albany so far. The city spent around $5 million on street work and related improvements, in return for which the company promised in its development agreement with the city to have the store open by […]
UO: Where the money flows
Written August 8th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
The sudden departure of the University of Oregon president reminds people once again that money is no object when it comes to the top echelons in what we still like to think of as public higher education. It also makes you wonder whether it might have been a mistake for the legislature to allow the […]
Albany’s Main Street: Six more weeks
Written August 7th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
East Albany’s Main Street at Third and Salem avenues has been torn up all summer. But the end is in sight. Well, it’s about six weeks away.
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Tags: Albany Public Works, Main Street rooundabout, Mark Shepard
Tags: Albany Public Works, Main Street rooundabout, Mark Shepard
Death off the Dave Clark Path II
Written August 6th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
As I expected on Monday, the body found on the Willamette riverfront off the Dave Cark Path that day has turned out to be that of a “local transient,” as the Democrat-Herald put it on its website Wednesday afternoon. Though the cause of death of this young woman was not yet known, it did not look […]
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Fixing Water Avenue, Part II
If you drive along Albany’s riverfront, you will have noticed that work began today on the second phase of rebuilding Water Avenue and the railroad track in the middle of it.
Tags: Albany street repairs, Portrland & Western Railroad, Salem Road & Driveway, Water Avenue