You remember Lance Armstrong, the bicycle racer who won the Tour de France seven times. For years he denied that he was doping, and when he finally admitted in January that that’s what he had done, the lawsuits started. Various parties claimed they had been defrauded. Now, a federal judge in Sacramento has put a […]
In Colorado Tuesday, voters in two state senate districts recalled the Democratic office holders — one of them the Senate president — over their votes for two gun-related bills. The outcome is of interest in Oregon, where all Republicans and a handful of Democrats in the legislature were wise enough to kill bills on gun […]
The CEO of the community hospital in Lebanon gave a talk about the costs of health care the other day, and according to a story in the paper she said the costs were out of sight. She’s right about that. But if she talked about the contribution to that cost by hospital organizations, the paper […]
A struggle for survival is taking place in the Willamette Valley’s farm economy. Either grass seed or specialty vegetable seeds may not survive. That’s the impression I got from a discussion at the Corvallis City Club on Monday. Grass seed growers, no longer allowed to burn their fields every few years, need an economical rotation […]
Whatever else was going on with Syria and the world on Monday, the idea of a punitive U.S. missile strike seemed to be off the schedule for now. CNN reported that on the phone Secretary of State Kerry had told the Russian foreign minister, who had brought up the idea, that the U.S. would consider not […]
The Albany city government has turned down a request by Tom Cordier for a list of about 27,000 email addresses to which it sends City Bridges, its monthly newsletter with stories on city programs and services. Cordier wanted the list so, as a private citizen, he could pay a company to email an appeal to […]
What crash reports should tell us
Almost every day, the Oregon State Police reports on vehicle crashes in which someone was killed or seriously injured. There is a forward-looking point to these reports. They should remind us all that in traffic, being insufficiently aware of potential danger can have terrible consequences. On Tuesday (Sept. 10), for example, a 30-year-old woman from Arizona […]
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