You should hear far more than you do about Oregon farms. Why? Because Oregon would be much poorer without agriculture, and the country would be less well fed. Late August is a good time to think about this. The harvest is winding up and city people can see some of the work going on in […]
Albany’s downtown urban renewal district, CARA, expects to have a surplus of $1.25 million next budget year. It could decide to levy that much less in tax, which would benefit mostly the city of Albany, Linn County and indirectly the state school fund. But after discussing it on May 7, the CARA advisory board recommended […]
Albany city officials should no longer ignore the effect that the city’s downtown urban renewal district, CARA, has on other governmental services in Linn County. According to a breakdown presented by urban renewal manager Kate Porsche, local governments this budget year are forced to give up $2.2 million to the downtown district. In 2013-14, it’s […]
Somewhere around 30 million years ago, during the tertiary period in the geology of Earth, a volcano rose in what today is the middle of Oregon’s Linn County. Time marches on, and for the last half century the Harrington family, which owns more than 200 acres of forest and ranch land in that very spot, […]
Next time high water sloshes across Bryant Way outside of Albany, it should be easier to keep drivers from getting into trouble there. Linn County Road Department crews on Monday were installing gates that can be closed to keep traffic out. The trouble comes in winter and early spring when exceptionally heavy rain or a […]
Secession in California?
In Northern California, the Siskiyou County board of supervisors has voted 4-1 to secede from the state of California. It’s a symbolic action that won’t go anywhere. But it highlights a problem in modern America:Â For people alienated from the system, there’s no longer a place to go. Part of what shaped America was that […]
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