Oregon law allows city councils to talk about some things behind closed doors in order to further the public interest. I think the proceedings in Millersburg’s proposed electric power grab go far beyond the intent of the law and disrespect rather than advance the interests of the town’s residents.
As far as campaign money is concerned, the contest for state Senate in District 8 (Albany and Corvallis) is a fairly lop-sided affair. Democrat Sara Gelser of Corvallis, a state representative hoping to move to the Senate, has raised almost twice as much in cash contributions for her campaign as Republican Sen. Betsy Close of Albany […]
Here I am taking a leisurely ride on a breezy afternoon and once again I’m impressed by the scenery just outside of town.
So it looks as though we’ll be voting this fall on an initiative to create and regulate a legal industry supporting the recreational use of  marijuana. The sponsors turned in more than 145,000 signatures Thursday. They claimed to have checked many of them for their validity even before the state does the same, and they needed only 87,213. So […]
Albany’s first fenced dog park is taking shape, but not without controversy. A representative of the Northwest branch of the Familiy Motor Coach Association has complained to the city that the dog park takes up space the association had used to park 100 motor homes during its rallies at the Linn County Fair and Expo […]
Yesterday I wrote about Sunday’s Albany Bike Ride for Kids for which no kids showed up. It was for children who had taken a bike safety course during the just-concluded school year and were invited to take part, and I speculated about why they stayed away. A reader wondered about those alleged invitations, because she […]
Tennis anyone? At LBCC, rarely
Over the weekend I happened to ride past the tennis courts at Linn-Benton Community College, and I was sad to see the shape they were in. But the Albany college says something’s about to be done about the weeds.
Tags: community college sports, Linn-Benton Community College, tennis