Albany’s challenge of Oregon’s rules restricting free speech by public employees has failed. Indirectly that is what’s behind the action of the city council Wednesday to repeal the rain tax utility ordinance it had passed just last month.
More signs. That’s what Benton County will install to try to get traffic to slow down on Spring Hill Drive in the Albany city limits. Other steps to slow traffic might be more effective but would cost too much to install or maintain, the county concluded.
Don’t count on being able to buy recreational marijuana at many places in Albany if it becomes legal in the city at all. Maps prepared for the city council suggest there may be few if any locations where sales would be allowed.
On Saturday a couple of readers asked the Answer Man why Benton County was widening Robinhood Lane in North Albany. The Answer Man asked people who know, and now their replies are at hand.
Although no one mentioned this, it seems to me that the Portland schools now face a problem: What to do with books and other material doubting that mankind’s use of fossil fuels is mainly responsible for climate change. I suggest a solution in the spirit of the Portland School Board’s decision last week to ban […]
It’s one thing to put a warning on your fence, perhaps to discourage people from coming to your door to sell you something. It’s another to make people believe it. Chances are it won’t work if you undercut the message by letting passersby see who really guards the place.
Local gas tax comes up again
It’s early yet, and no one knows how far this idea is going to go, but there’s been talk of Albany voters being asked what they think of a local gas tax to pay for repairing city streets. The subject came up most recently at the city council meeting Wednesday night.
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