It’s always sad when a store you like has to close. You go in under the big “closing” sign, and the shelves don’t seem as full as they were. Some services are no longer being offered. Your rewards card no longer counts for anything. They offer discounts on the goods they sell, but what good […]
The trouble with websites is that they don’t go away even if they’re updated. Sen. Jeff Merkley’s critics at the Oregon Catalyst, a conservative online site, have gleefully pointed out answers Merkley provided about the federal health insurance reform legislation when it was still at issue in Congress, back in August 2009.
As you can see in this video, the downtown segment of Albany’s First Avenue now has new nighttime lighting. Strings of what look like Christmas tree lights have been wound around the trunks of the street trees there and strung partway into the crowns as well. At dusk Monday, the effect was not quite as […]
The Democrats in the U.S. Senate last week changed a rule that has governed the Senate since the earliest days of the republic, and the country may come to regret it.
If you are among those who grumble about the city government in Albany, a chance to talk to city officials face to face, without the formality of a public meeting, is close at hand. An open house is coming up at City Hall on Monday, Dec. 2, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
I was riding my bike along Albany’s Cox Creek path on Thursday (Nov. 21) — a sunny, cold and windy day — when a train carrying logs was being assembled at the nearby Millersburg yard of the Portland & Western Railroad. The yard figures in the long-standing effort to do more train building there and […]
On I-5: If it’s Friday, look out
On Interstate 5, beware of Friday afternoons. That seems to be the most dangerous time to drive on western Oregon’s main north-south highway.
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