A day after seven leaders of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation were acquitted in Portland, some people were still asking, on Facebook, “How is this possible?” and declaring that “Justice was not served.” The answer is simple: The government brought charges that did not fit the facts, and then it could not prove its case.
Tags: "Not guilty, Ammon Bundy, Billy Williams, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
The risk is pretty small; however …
In the Age of the Lawsuit, maybe this was the inevitable result of a couple of trees on Albany’s Cox Creek coming down in a windstorm two weekends ago. On Saturday these signs had appeared at the western entrance of the Cox Creek Path.
Tags: Albany parks, Cox Creek path, hazardous trees, hazardoustrees, wind damage