Turns out that Oregon has a “Prosperity Initiative” and Cylvia Hayes, the governor’s lady, is in charge of it. I had never heard of this until Willamette Week reported that Hayes had given a talk about prosperity in Portland on Dec. 16, when she got a parking ticket for displaying a state police pass on […]
Once again there’s talk in the NCAA of possibly paying college athletes for their work. The argument against it is that the athletes are getting a more or less free education, and that should be enough. It’s a dubious argument considering that participation in top-flight athletic programs is a year-round obligation that doesn’t leave much […]
No time could be better spent reading than these rainy days of January, short and gloomy as they are. And there is no better story to take our minds off this entire dispiriting age than the novels that the late Patrick O’Brian created about Jack Aubrey, the British naval officer, his friend Stephen Maturin and their […]
How long North Albany will be without a supermarket now that Ray’s has closed is uncertain, but Pete Snook hopes it won’t be too long. And perhaps a growing customer base will make the job easier.
Marijuana was on the minds of the Albany City Council again Monday. I’m speaking figuratively, of course. The mayor and five councilors (Bill Coburn was away) were nothing if not sober at Monday’s work session, where they spent nearly an hour hashing over what the city government might do come March, when the state expects […]
Albany could get a “bottle drop” this year if the city council goes along with a unanimous recommendation the city planning commission reached on Monday night, but the city staff does not like the location.
This the year for Edgewater Village?
This may be the year when something finally gets built on a big riverfront tract in Albany that has been a wasteland since the demolition of what was left of the Inland Quick Freeze packing plant after it burned down in 2006. The roughly six acres lie between the Willamette River and Water Avenue, stretching three […]
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