When I see a locomotive I don’t remember seeing before, I can’t resist taking its picture. So here you are: Locomotive 4816 of the Kansas City Southern Railway Co. was parked off Seventh Avenue in Albany on Friday afternoon.
Low turnout no big deal
Written May 16th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
If we want more citizens to vote, we’ll have to make elections interesting. Oregon elections sometimes are, but in most respects this primary is not.
Freeway changes: Some questions
Written May 16th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
At first glance, the proposed changes that state highway planners have drafted for the Albany interchanges on Interstate 5 look complicated and costly. And it’s not clear to the average motorist how they’re going to improve the flow of traffic.
Multiple-voting fraud? Can’t be done
Written May 15th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
If someone tries to fix an Oregon election by voting “early and often,” as the old saw has it, I’m convinced that Oregon’s vote-by-mail system has made this kind of fraud infinitely harder. I would say it’s impossible, considering the procedures in place to make sure everything is legit.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: election safeguards, Linn County Clerk's Office, Oregon elections. voter fraud
Tags: election safeguards, Linn County Clerk's Office, Oregon elections. voter fraud
This rural view is short-lived
Written May 14th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
This corner on the south side of Albany — Ellingson Road and Columbus Street — won’t look quite so rural in a few years. A portion of the 106 acres of the former Henshaw Farm, now a grass-seed field, will be developed with 223 single-family residential lots, according to a proposed subdivision plat that will come […]
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Plannong commission, Columbus Street property, Tri-County Investments
Tags: Albany Plannong commission, Columbus Street property, Tri-County Investments
Waiting for Oregon’s first Hobby Lobby
Written May 13th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Job applicants were filling out paperwork and waiting their turn Tuesday inside Heritage Mall in Albany, where Hobby Lobby expects to open its first Oregon store next month, “at the beginning of June” as a press release issued on April 11 put it.
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Schrader’s amendment: Bad idea
Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader, D-5th District, wants to fiddle with the First Amendment in order to keep rich people from supporting lots of candidates in federal elections. He should forget it. Once we start making exceptions to freedom of speech, other limits on liberty will be easier to impose.
Tags: Citizens United, First Amendment, Kurt Schrader, McCutcheon, U.S. Constitution