Electric bikes trace route of car executives to DC
WASHINGTON (AP) An Oregon company that makes electric motorcycles thinks it has a homegrown solution to the nation s energy woes. To prove it, the company sent two riders on a 10-day odyssey from Detroit to Washington, re-creating the 2008 trip of ...
 3.4K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 148.0 Former Coos lawyer up for U.S. attorney
PORTLAND (AP) A former Coos County prosecutor is among the final three candidates for U.S. attorney for Oregon. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden s office has announced the finalists Tuesday. Their names are being forwarded to President Obama. The list includes ...
1.5K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 148.0 Reedsport saves big money on levee deal
REEDSPORT The city of Reedsport has partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to get its flood levees inspected and certified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Not only will the move save the city tens of thousands of dollars, it will prevent resid...
3.4K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 175.0 Interior, BLM offers 62 timber sales in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest management strategy....
4.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 175.0 Health models do work
It s amazing deliberations over U.S. health care reform involve next to no discussion of health plans in other industrialized countries, where everybody is covered, costs are lower and health outcomes are better. Advocates rarely cite the success of ...
3.0K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 246.0 'On the hot seat'
WASHINGTON Forget mission accomplished. Try mission seemingly impossible. With the Senate Finance Committee on the verge of approving a sweeping health overhaul bill Tuesday, the path might appear open for action by the full Senate. But first the ...
4.4K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 195.0 Hospitals pile up unpaid bills while providing care to uninsured
COOS BAY The Bay Area Hospital emergency room was relatively quiet Monday morning. Patients lay in only a handful of the 14 beds. The ambulance bay and trauma center were empty, allowing some of the physicians and nurses a chance to chat for a mome...
5.2K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 175.0 Obama-backed health care bill gains ground
WASHINGTON Health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama all but cleared a major hurdle in the Senate early today as Democratic liberals and moderates on a key committee closed ranks behind the most sweeping set of changes in a half-cent...
5.7K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 212.0 USFS backs new Wilderness area near Reedsport
GRANTS PASS The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area near Reedsport. It s in an area of the Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil s Staircase. The agency s deputy chief, Joel Haltrop, appeared Th...
2.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 148.0 Older people face higher health care premiums
WASHINGTON Old people get sick more than young people, and in most states that adds up to them paying a lot more for their health insurance premiums. President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats want to restrict that practice as part of a top...
4.8K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 148.0 NE Portland post office to be renamed
PORTLAND (AP) The U.S. House this week approved a bill to rename a northeast Portland post office for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Congressman Earl Blumenauer sponsored the bill that resulted from an effort led by Portland letter carriers Isham Harri...
0.4K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 148.0 Stimulus funds local forest projects
Oregon will receive more than $17 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to protect forests on the South Coast and in Southern, Central and Eastern Oregon from wildfires, invasive species and disease outbreaks. The funding w...
1.1K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 175.0 Wyden decries health system
COOS BAY Indefensible. Inhumane. Those are a couple of words U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden used to describe the American health care system. But the Oregon Democrat isn t much of a fan of his party s health care legislation promoting a public option. Officia...
3.7K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 1000.0 Sen. Wyden will talk health care at town halls
Legislators will be heading back to Washington, D.C., next week, where questions loom about health care reform. Before heading east, Sen. Ron Wyden will be talking about the issue with South Coast residents at four town hall meetings, including one i...
2.7K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 302.0 Wyden to make Southern Coast visits
Sen. Ron Wyden will visit the South Coast this week, with stops in Coos Bay and Gold Beach on Friday, and Reedsport and Florence on Saturday. The Oregon Democrat will take questions and comments starting at 4:30 p.m. in Coos Bay s Sunset Middle Schoo...
0.7K - Sep. 1, 2009; scored 175.0 Medford vet to get Silver Stars from Vietnam war
MEDFORD As a retired Army major who did two combat tours in South Vietnam, longtime Medford resident Donald Graham has always had high regard for Silver Star recipients. After all, he knew they had put their lives on the line for their fellow soldi...
4.8K - Aug. 26, 2009; scored 148.0 VA chief visits Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki says access to veterans benefits, a backlog of claims and homelessness remain problems for veterans nationally but the government is making progress. Shinseki, along with Gov. Ted Kulo...
3.2K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 197.0 Conference opens for blinded veterans
PORTLAND (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski is scheduled to give the opening remarks at the Blinded Veterans Association national convention in Portland before meeting with veterans to discuss issues facing them. Sen. Ron Wyden and Secretary of Veterans Affa...
0.5K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 148.0 Obama needs Dem support
Too big to fail is the tagline health lobbyist Fred Graefe applies to the health care reform effort, and he s got it dead right. The failure of an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress to pass President Barack Obama s No. 1 priority would be a politica...
3.0K - Aug. 13, 2009; scored 175.0 Senator offers foreign prosecution bill
SALEM (AP) Some top Oregon law enforcement officials are backing legislation proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden to streamline prosecution of Mexicans who commit violent crimes in this country and then flee back across the border. There are accused criminal...
2.8K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 236.0 | 
