Albany is going with the flow and headed for having a rain tax, although the preferred and more accurate term is “storm water utility fee.” The city’s intent to go ahead on this front was made plain at a work session of the city council Monday afternoon.
If you’re returning empties to the Albany “Bottle Drop” of the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative — the only such redemption center in Linn and Benton counties — you might want to pick a time other than Sunday afternoon.
Despite the showers of the last few days, the Willamette River is still running very low after a summer of almost no rain. Nevertheless it’s a pretty substantial stream, as a stroll on the bank at Albany’s Bryant Park shows.
How is it possible to kind of like a presidential candidate whose ideas would not work except to lead to ever more government control of everyone’s life? I don’t know, but I couldn’t help nodding now and then when I was flipping channels the other night and ended up with C-SPAN and Bernie Sanders at […]
Verizon’s cell phone customers in part of South Albany have had to wait a while for better reception, but if the wait is not already over, it should be over soon. When I looked a couple of weeks ago, construction was well along on the base of what was planned as a 120-foot transmission tower […]
If you want to increase local interest in a particular book, one sure-fire method is to object to its being used in a high school class. This I realized Tuesday when I tried to find a copy of “The Handmaid’s Tale” by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.
Great bond sale, and a question
Albany officials were delighted with the results of Wednesday’s bond sale to pay for the planned new police headquarters and downtown fire station replacement. The high demand — 10 bidders — showed the strength of the city’s financial situation. As for me, I was a little puzzled, which once again shows that I’m mystified by […]
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