Hasso Hering

Dispensaries: Lots of comment, no effect

Written March 26th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

So much for public comment at Albany City Council meetings. It doesn’t mean much to the council — or anything actually — when it comes to medical marijuana and legal dispensaries.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany City Council, medical marijuana

Albany-Corvallis trail: There’s hope!

Written March 25th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

Good news on the bicycling front: The proposed cycling and walking path between Albany and Corvallis has finally moved from being a mere dream to the realm of the possible. I’ve written about that trail for 10 years or more and hoped I might be able to use it some day. Now it’s possible it could be built in […]

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany-Corvallis Trail, Benton County Public Works, Connect Oregon V, ODOT, STIP

Unlike Carthage, this is still there

Written March 25th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

Far be it from me to invite, by harping on old news, recollections of Cato the Elder. It was that Roman conservative, you may recall, who ended every public speech with the immortal phrase “Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.” While Cato harped on the need to destroy Carthage if the Roman republic was to survive, I am […]

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Tags: Albany City Council, Bottle recycling, redemption center, Salvation Army

Albany pot store ban? Maybe not!

Written March 24th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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Whether to ban or regulate “marijuana facilities” in Albany may be decided Wednesday night, and for now it looks as though Mayor Sharon Konopa will cast the deciding vote in favor of more regulation but not a so-called “moratorium.”

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Tags: Albany City Council, dispensaries, medical marijuana

Much improved: I-5 rest areas

Written March 23rd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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In recent years, stopping at Oregon’s I-5 rest areas usually made it necessary to pass by a panhandler on your way to or from the restroom. That may have been one of the first things that Oregon Travel Experience has worked to prevent.

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Tags: Interstate 5, ODOT, Oregon Travel Experience, rest areas

Welcome this ‘climate change’

Written March 23rd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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Climate change seems to be on everybody’s mind — if you consider politicians and writers of letters to the editor to be “everybody.” Luckily, there are the rest of us, rejoicing this time of year in the arrival of spring.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: climate change, seasons

Linn County to join dispensary ban

Written March 21st, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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Linn County, too, is preparing to jump on the local-government bandwagon of banning for a year the medical marijuana dispensaries the 2013 Oregon legislature had tried to allow.

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Tags: Linn County Oregon, marijuana dispensaries, medical marijuana