Hasso Hering

Millersburg power: Voters seek role

Written July 24th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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The Millersburg struggle about electric power is about to enter a new phase, one that seeks to get the voters involved. The struggle is between ATI Wah Chang, the town’s main industry and largest power consumer, which wants Millersburg to take over the electric system, and Pacific Power, which does not want to give it […]

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Tags: Craig Ziegenhagel, Millersburg city council, Pacific Power

Take a look at Albany police site

Written July 24th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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Here’s a closer look at the site where the Albany City Council would like to build a new police headquarters. It’s off Pacific Boulevard S.W., just north of the medical office complex north of 29th Avenue. (I wish the place would get an address to make describing it less cumbersome.)

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Tags: Albany Police Dept., Albany police station, Pacific Boulevard, police and fire bond issue

Dog park: All it needs is dogs

Written July 24th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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On a ride around town today, I checked on progress at the new dog park at Timber Linn Park. I found the place ready to open but still locked up. when I got home in the afternoon, there was an email from Albany Parks Director Ed Hodney announcing that the dog park was indeed finished and that […]

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Tags: Albany dog park, Albany parks and recreation, Ed Hodney

City drops Jackson as police site

Written July 23rd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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The Albany City Council has given up on the idea of keeping the police headquarters on Jackson Street, next door to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office and jail. Instead, the council decided Wednesday to revert to Plan A, which is to build a new police station on nearly 4 acres of city-owned vacant land on […]

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Tags: Albany City Council, Albany Police Department, police station expansion

On pot, act means state control

Written July 23rd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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So we’re going to vote on a marijuana initiative on Nov. 4. That’s certain. What is not at all certain is that most of us will vote for this measure. Here’s why: More than one-third of the people who signed the initiative petition were not voters. When it certified the measure for the ballot with […]

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Tags: marijuana initiative, Oregon marijuana

Our sales tax on visitors

Written July 22nd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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There’s something a little unusual about the sales tax on hotel rooms. Unlike other taxes, its main point seems to be to generate more taxes.

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Tags: Oregon room tax, Transient lodging tax

The Vic Atiyeh I remember

Written July 21st, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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One time in the 1980s, Vic Atiyeh was on a bulldozer at Adair Village. He was there to help launch a new training program for heavy-equipment operators. To give the students experience, they were digging a big hole to create an artificial pond. So when the governor showed up for the ceremony, he sat on one […]

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Tags: Governor Atiyeh, Vic Atiyeh