HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Lost and stranded, without ID

Written October 6th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

This handsome fellow came wandering through the yard and sniffed around. When I opened the back door to check on him, he vaulted inside and toured the living room. He acted lost. I had never seen him before, and there was no easy way to find out where he lived. That’s because he had a collar […]


Safe route to school awaits kids

Written October 6th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

The spiffy new sidewalk along North Albany’s Gibson Hill Road is ready for Wednesday. What’s so special about Wednesday? Well, Oct. 7 is Walk and Bike to School Day in Oregon and elsewhere in the U.S. That, anyway, is what it says in a press release from ODOT.


Think of survival after big quake

Written October 5th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Looking out an upstairs window of the Flinn Block in downtown Albany last month, I was wondering how well those brick buildings out there would withstand a great big earthquake. Not that well, I suspect. And now we’ve had yet another reminder, in the form of an excellent program on Oregon Public Broadcasting, of how ill […]


Return to the cycling front

Written October 2nd, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Back on the Albany bicycling front (a tranquil retreat from the renewed but fruitless gun debate), the good old Periwinkle Bikepath comes to mind. First, because it’s being lengthened, thus becoming a bit more useful for transportation. And second, because to become truly useful it still needs an intersection fix.


Gun sense? Like in Britain, Australia?

Written October 2nd, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Here we go again with the debate about what President Obama calls “common-sense” gun laws. On Thursday, after the massacre in Roseburg, Obama complained about citizens who oppose “any modest regulation of how we use a deadly weapon,” as though he’d never heard of all the laws on that very subject.

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OReGO: No hacking is possible

Written October 1st, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Oregon’s program of collecting a mileage fee instead of the gas tax is catching on more slowly than I had thought. But one of my concerns — that it might be vulnerable to computer hackers — appears to be unfounded.


Why this father is demonstrating

Written September 29th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

For weeks now, Joal Traynor has spent part of most days standing on street corners in downtown Albany, holding up a sign complaining about the state Department of Human Services. I’ve talked with him at his house and scanned some of the mountain of paperwork he has collected. And it looks to me that he […]


 
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