About one thousand voters in Millersburg are about to get a say — indirectly, and in a preliminary way — on the idea of their town taking over the electric power system within the city limits.
No place to be in a storm
Written February 11th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
You might want to bring a chainsaw when riding on Albany’s Cox Creek path in winter. Just kidding. It’s not that often that the path is blocked by a fallen tree.
A milestone at Edgewater Village
Written February 10th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
At last: After years of planning and many delays, work has begun on the first house to be built at Edgewater Village, the residential development on which rest great hopes for the redevelopment of Albany’s riverfront. (It’s the sort of thing you notice when you take advantage of the first dry day in a long while and […]
Sale of old church: Council agrees
Written February 9th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
So yes, Good Samaritan Ministries Albany will get a chance to take on the project of restoring the crumbling Cumberland Presbyterian Church at 401 Main Street, but not right away. First there is the city land-use permitting process to overcome, and that’s expected to take three to four months.
Democrats to enlarge voter rolls
Written February 9th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
It’s no surprise that Democrats in the legislature are about to enact a bill intended to vastly increase the number of voters likely to vote Democratic. The upshot is that Oregon’s one-party government will become even more firmly entrenched in the years to come.
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Tags: Dan Rayfield, HB 2177, Kate Brown, Oregon voters, voter registration
Tags: Dan Rayfield, HB 2177, Kate Brown, Oregon voters, voter registration
What Cylvia wants: Oregon ‘GPI’
Written February 8th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Cylvia Hayes’ was throwing her weight around as “first lady,” as reported by The Oregonian/OregonLive, because she wanted Oregon to adopt a new way to measure changes in the economy. Most of us had never heard of the “Genuine Progress Indicator.” But thanks to Google you can look it up. It sounds like a ploy by people in […]
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That’s not believable, Governor
Governor Kitzhaber evidently thinks of Oregonians as idiots who will believe anything. He now wants us to believe that he called Secretary of State Kate Brown and asked her to hustle back from a conference in Washington, D.C., so he could tell her he was not resigning. Really?
Tags: Cylvia Hayes, Kate Brown, Kitzhaber