On Friday, a fine spring day, I thought I’d check on Albany’s Talking Waters Garden, and where these wetlands adjoin the Millersburg rail yard, I saw this train loaded with logs.
Albany’s Dave Clark Path will be much brighter at night — and presumably safer — once the city goes ahead with its plan to install new lights along the riverside trail and in Monteith Riverpark. How much brighter? Well, take a look at the video taken during a demonstration Thursday night of just how the fixtures would work.
You can’t look away from the legislature for even a day. If you do, you might miss legislators doing something sensible, as members of a House committee did last week on the matter of bicyclists in traffic being hard to see at night.
In reaction to a massive traffic jam Sunday, ODOT has asked drivers to avoid a work zone on Interstate 5 south of Cottage Grove during peak traffic periods or to find alternate routes. Unfortunately, there are no practical alternatives, so ODOT might want to try something else to help drivers either avoid or cope with […]
Sad to say, one part of the business of the legislature is to create crimes, and Senate Bill 941 is only the most notorious example of this. It declares that something that is perfectly legal now — selling, without asking the government’s permission, an item (a firearm) whose ownership is protected by the Constitution — becomes a […]
Update: Ban smoking in parks?
(Please see the update at the bottom of this story.) We have plenty of rules, so by all means let’s have one more: No more smoking in Albany parks. Or “vaping” either. And if you have bad breath, please, stop breathing altogether lest somebody downwind get an unwelcome whiff.
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