By next spring, Interstate 5 through the mid-Willamette Valley should have a cable barrier down the median to keep cars from crossing into the opposite lanes and killing someone.
Taking Kmart’s place is … what?
Written November 10th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
A request to divide the tax lot occupied by the former Kmart store in Albany has touched off rumors in City Hall and elsewhere about what if anything might go there. The big question: Is Winco Foods involved? Good answers were impossible to come by on Monday night.
What’s up at Edgewater Village?
Written November 9th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Edgewater Village is a planned residential neighborhood that everyone hopes will rejuvenate Albany’s riverfront on the Willamette. The hope is there, along with new sewer lines and new streets, but the first house has yet to be started. The public has an interest because CARA, the city’s urban renewal program, has spent $2.4 million on […]
Traffic jam: Disgruntled in Corvallis
Written November 8th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Tonight’s question: Why do innocent travelers have to pay the price — getting stuck in a massive Corvallis traffic jam — just because a football game has just ended?
Hayes inquiry: A waste of time
Written November 7th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission is wasting its time with its newly launched inquiry into the consulting work of Governor Kitzhaber’s longtime girlfriend and now fiancee. Unless the facts differ from what has been widely reported, this was not a question of laws being broken. It was a matter of lousy judgment on the part of […]
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Leaves: a challenge for the GMO gang
Written November 7th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Well, as far as chores go, maybe this is not all that onerous. Still, thinking back to the recently concluded and unlamented election campaign, when genetically modified organisms were on the ballot, maybe there is something the gene splicers could do for us.
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Next legislature: An editorialist’s feast!
What can we expect from the 2015 Oregon legislature? I put the question to Rep. Andy Olson, R-Albany, who was unopposed in winning another two-year term in the House, and Sen.-elect Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis, who will replace Republican Betsy Close of Albany in January.
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