The candidacy of Albany’s Jo Rae Perkins for the U.S. Senate is a long shot, to put it mildly. There are likely to be other candidates for the Republican Senate nomination next year with more experience in elected office, better financing and more statewide name recognition. In the unlikely event she prevails over all of […]
Whether Governor Kitzhaber vetoes the Indian mascot bill or not — he has until Aug. 19 to decide — the affected schools might consider cutting through all the baloney on this issue on their own. To refresh your memory, the state Board of Education decided that schools with Indian names and mascots had to ditch […]
Now that they have the tools for a renewed campaign against unlawful behavior by vagrants, Albany police will have to use them. The city council Wednesday passed ordinances against open containers of alcohol in public places, and against relieving oneself in public. Having laws is one thing. Applying them is something else. For that, the police […]
Jo Rae Perkins of Albany, a former chair of the Linn County Republican Central Committee, has filed as a candidate for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in the Republican primary in May 2014. Here she talks briefly about her candidacy. Perkins, 57, headed the county central committee from 2009 through most of 2012. She […]
With depressing regularity, the Oregon State Police issues press releases reporting on traffic crashes in which a vehicle “crossed the center line” and collided head-on with one coming the other way. Too often the outcome is that one or more persons are killed and others seriously hurt. The OSP says this happened again on Aug. 13, when […]
Albany is taking steps to make the town less appealing to unauthorized campers, street corner beggars and drunks who become intoxicated in public and won’t use a portable restroom if they can use a bush. The city council Wednesday (Aug. 14) plans to vote on ordinances aimed at giving the police more tools to deal with people who […]
Land donation near Oak Creek Trail
The Albany City Council has accepted the donation of more than 90 acres of undeveloped — and mostly unbuildable — land in the Oak Creek drainage of south Albany. The donation gives the city acreage that links parcels already owned by the city along the creek, an important reach of open space in close proximity to subdivisions […]