Obama will listen to Katrina survivors
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama, who accused former President George W. Bush of leading a government that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns, is hearing directly from New Orleans residents who have struggled to rebuild th...
 1.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 193.0 City might have legal right to cut sewer service
The Coquille Tribe doesn t think the city can do it. But a representative of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says the city of North Bend, in its lawsuit against the tribe, just might be able to legally shut off sewer services to The Mi...
4.3K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 217.0 Sept. 11 training exercise sparks fear, confusion
WASHINGTON (AP) A Coast Guard training exercise in the Potomac River near the Pentagon sparked confusion amid Friday s commemorations of the Sept. 11 anniversary. Media reports that shots were being fired in the river sent FBI agents scrambling to ...
5.4K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 210.0 Formula changes poverty figures
WASHINGTON The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living...
5.3K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 274.0 Agriculture secretary calls for new emphasis on forests
SEATTLE U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday outlined a vision for managing the nation s forests that placed a high priority on restoration to protect water resources and combat climate change. Conserving our forests is not a luxury, b...
3.7K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 319.0 Obama's plan will cost nation less
Obama s plan will cost nation less Thumbs down to The World for the less than factual statement (The World, Aug. 8). The statement, Jeers to Oregon s updated Medicaid Management Information System and the private contractor who just can t seem to ge...
1.8K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 195.0 CIT Group rescue is OK d
NEW YORK (AP) CIT Group Inc. s board approved a deal with major bondholders to keep the company out of bankruptcy with a $3 billion rescue loan, according to published reports. The emergency loan gives the commercial lender some desperatel...
3.8K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 267.0 GM exits bankruptcy; CEO vows to do better
DETROIT A leaner General Motors arose today, making an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy with ambitions of making money and building cars people are eager to buy. Once the world s largest and most powerful automaker, new GM is now cleansed of ma...
5.3K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 237.0 Airport candidates speak on issues
The airport is important Jon Barton The 69-year-old Coos Bay resident has lived in the Bay Area for 15 years and been visiting family on the South Coast since 1962. Jon Barton Why are you running for airport board? Barton said he realizes the importa...
10.7K - May. 4, 2009; scored 314.0 Chrysler succumbs to bankruptcy
DETROIT - The first sound of the gavel in Chrysler's bankruptcy case might as well be the bang of a starter's pistol. The nation's third-largest automaker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday with an ambitious plan to emerge in as litt...
6.9K - May. 1, 2009; scored 262.0 Swine flu fears flare
NEW YORK - Esti Lamonaca's illness started with a high fever, a cough and achy bones, just a couple of days after she returned from a spring break trip on the beach in Cancun with friends. By the weekend, her voice was hoarse and she was wearing a su...
6.4K - Apr. 27, 2009; scored 292.0 Here's a three-way health reform fix
Before President Barack Obama and Congress overhaul the U.S. health care system at great expense - and, as things look, without a cost-control mechanism - they ought to consider an alternative conceptual framework. It comes from Tom Cigarran, founder...
4.0K - Apr. 14, 2009; scored 193.0 Obama rejects Chrysler and General Motors plans
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is sending a blunt message to Detroit automakers: To survive - and win more government help - they must remake themselves top to bottom. Driving home the point, the White House ousted the General Motors chairman as...
4.5K - Mar. 30, 2009; scored 262.0 Fire departments get FEMA grants
Three South Coast fire departments have an additional $600,000 for operations thanks to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA announced awards totaling almost $1.7 million from the Assistance to Firefighters Grants program f...
0.9K - Mar. 10, 2009; scored 170.0 Obama treads fine line on church, state
President Barack Obama, signaling early in his administration that religion belongs in the public discourse, has promised to open a big tent to voices from across the spectrum of belief without crossing boundaries separating church and state. The Dem...
7.9K - Feb. 14, 2009; scored 195.0 As Bush says goodbye to the nation, he defends record
WASHINGTON President George W. Bush s farewell speech is more than a goodbye to the nation that elected him twice. It is his last chance in office to define his tumultuous presidency in his own, unfiltered terms a mission that will keep his fire...
5.9K - Jan. 15, 2009; scored 212.0 Authorities struggle to make power outages less deadly
WASHINGTON For many of the growing millions who depend on home medical equipment, a power outage goes way beyond the inconvenience most of us feel. It could be deadly. It s an issue that snuck up on emergency officials as better medical treatments...
12.0K - Jan. 12, 2009; scored 326.0 County slashes road crew
Coos County has faced increasing labor, materials and fuel costs for a decade, yet gas tax revenue has decreased. Commissioners say that worsening financial situation is the reason they opted Wednesday afternoon to lay off 22 Road Department workers ...
4.1K - Jan. 2, 2009; scored 237.0 Investigators search for answers in jet crash
DENVER (AP) Investigators returned to the charred wreckage of a Continental Airlines jet today in search of clues about why the plane veered off a runway in Denver and skidded into a shallow ravine. The twin-engine Boeing 737-500 still sat in a sha...
5.1K - Dec. 22, 2008; scored 242.0 Banks are not discussing bailout money
WASHINGTON It s something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where s the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation s largest banks say they can t track exactly how they re spending the mo...
7.2K - Dec. 22, 2008; scored 170.0 | 
