One of the advantages of living in a small town is supposed to be the lack of congestion. So how come in Albany we’re now spending so much time in stop-and-go traffic?
How about a local gas tax?
Written April 13th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
The pavement on many of Albany’s older residential streets has been in pretty poor shape for years and isn’t getting any better. Mayor Sharon Konopa thinks that a local gas tax would enable the city to make progress on that front.
Rain tax: A hint on its likely size
Written April 11th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Still no word on what Albany’s proposed rain tax will cost you when – not if – it starts being collected, probably starting next spring. No definite word, at least, but an unauthorized hint based on arithmetic alone.
The Big Trash Day Dilemma
Written April 11th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Where to put your garbage and recycling cans on the weekly trash day is a perplexing and occasionally vexing question without a universal solution. Luckily, it doesn’t matter as long as everybody realizes there are no easy answers and acts accordingly.
Looking at the dark side of spring
Written April 11th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
What you see here looks pretty nice, right? But there’s a dark side to this sea of white blossoms under a blue sky. The scene foreshadows a backbreaking chore this summer and fall.
Klamath dams: What was left out
Written April 8th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
There were some big holes in the news coverage of the new agreements to tear out four dams on the Klamath River. One was what we’re paying for this. And it was curious that for once nobody worried about carbon, the bogeyman of our age.
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Mayors back Amtrak rail preference
With one exception caused by a thief in California, Amtrak trains have been arriving in Albany more or less on time this week. But the mayor is worried that a proposed change in federal regulation would weaken the law that says railroads must give passenger trains preference on their tracks.
Tags: Amtrak, Amtrak Cascades, Coast Starlight, ODOT-Rail, Surface Transportation Board