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
It was a cowardly crime (2nd update)
Written May 13th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Through a rain-spotted windshield, you and I are looking at the East Oregon or Cloverdale Road overpass on Interstate 5 in Creswell, south of Eugene. From there, before dawn on April 13, someone dropped a chunk of masonry, a cinderblock, which smashed into a vehicle below and injured a woman sitting in the passenger seat. If they catch […]
Cracking down on bus stop squatters
Written May 12th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Yes, it will be against the law to duck under an Albany transit shelter just to get out of the rain or for any purpose other than to wait for a city bus. But city officials say they would never prosecute anyone merely for getting out of the rain. And, they insist, this proposed new city law is […]
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A visit from a ‘Southern Belle’
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.
Tags: Kansas City Southern, Locomotoive 4816, Railroads