It might be time for the Albany City Council to rethink the way it handles comments from the public during its regular meetings, which are held on two Wednesday nights a month at City Hall. Being open to public input is one thing. Prolonging meetings in order to accommodate long but irrelevant discourse is something […]
Something to smile about — that’s what Mayor Sharon Konopa hopes the city council will be able to achieve often as it deals with issues in 2015. Konopa is starting her fourth consecutive term in the mayor’s office. At the first regular council meeting of the year on Wednesday, she projected her usually sunny outlook […]
Mid-valley legislators want all kinds of law changes this session, ranging from big ones like the low-carbon fuel standard to less expensive items, such as letting Interstate 5 be known as the “Purple Heart Trail.”
Some homeowners in the low-lying sections of North Albany face potentially steep increases in their flood insurance premiums, while some others may pay less or be able to drop flood insurance entirely — all because of changes in the official floodplain map.
What are the chances that Republicans will ever regain the Oregon statewide offices they held a generation ago? According to what I heard from Bill Lunch on Monday, I would say between not great to vanishingly small.
Tax bird seed? Yes, that’s what Governor Kitzhaber is asking the legislature to do, and it may serve as a symbol for the eagerness of Democrats to extract more money not just from households with bird feeders but everybody else as well.
Alb-Cor Trail: Bogus objections
A group of land owners along the rail line between Albany and Corvallis is determined to prevent construction of the Albany-Corvallis Bike Trail, but their stated reasons make no sense, at least to me. And if it comes to the point where eminent domain has to be invoked, I don’t see how their objections would […]
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