The nursery gets back to basics
Once upon a time, the ideal for a child s room was a cozy haven filled with sturdy push-pull toys, handmade dolls and a few baskets of dress-up clothes. That was before batteries, computer programs for toddlers, and the array of stuff that talks, squ...
 4.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 56.0 About those driftwood sculptures
Question: What happened to the people who used to make the sculptures out of driftwood on Highway 101 heading north toward Hauser? Answer: They graduated. Those driftwood artists were students at the Oregon Marine Institute of Biology in Charleston...
1.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 56.0 State looks to tall buildings for tsunami safety
CANNON BEACH (AP) Should an earthquake generate a tsunami on the Oregon coast, there might be only 20 minutes to get to high ground. But regional leaders, engineers and scientists plan to gather next week in Cannon Beach and Portland to talk about ...
2.3K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 56.0 Heirs to Kennedy's legacy not easy to find
WASHINGTON In the halls of liberalism, it s hard to imagine anyone filling such a void. Sen. Edward Kennedy was the thundering partisan, the unapologetic liberal leader, the master legislative dealmaker and tactician. He was also flawed, haunted by...
5.4K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 89.0 Tribe aims to bring back wild condors
ORICK, Calif. The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong. It can soar the highest, so we figured that was the one to ge...
6.0K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 89.0 The other N-word
Nantucket is a small island off the southern shore of Cape Cod. It s where the Pequod, Captain Ahab s ship, set out to go whaling. Now it s a vacation spot, where the population balloons in the summer and shrinks back to village-size every winter. In...
3.2K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 56.0 Awaiting the executioner
SOUTH HOLLAND, Ill. They were waiting down at Gibson Chevrolet near Chicago for a couple of five-gallon cans of sodium silicate liquid glass, they call it to poison and kill the clunkers when the latest condemned car pulled up. The 1999 Ford E...
5.7K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 56.0 I want to know about those whale bones
Question: I want to know more about the exposed bones in the sand on the beach near the New Carissa wreck site. Answer: The bones are from the remains of a dead California gray whale that had washed up earlier this summer, Jan Hodder, associate profe...
1.2K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 290.0 How the GOP should handle Sonia
Republicans have been given fair warning. Should GOP senators treat Sonia Sotomayor as contemptuously as Democrats treated Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, they should expect Hispanic hostility for a generation. The chutzpah of this Beltwa...
4.1K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 56.0 Feds ban krill fishing
No one fishes for krill off the West Coast, and federal fisheries managers want to keep it that way so the tiny shrimp-like creatures remain as plentiful as possible as food for whales, salmon, and seabirds. NOAA Fisheries Service on Monday issued a ...
0.9K - Jul. 13, 2009; scored 89.0 Grant aims to retrieve fishermens' lost crab pots
NEWPORT (AP) During his 35 years as a commercial fisherman, Jeff Feldner lost his share of crab pots when storms blew them out of position, a passing boat propeller sheared off the buoy, or a bank of kelp overwhelmed everything and dragged it away....
4.0K - Jul. 13, 2009; scored 89.0 Going out
Theater etc. This weekend Friday Foreign Film: The Korean romance 3-Iron will be shown at 7 tonight at the Coos Bay Public Library. A drifter breaks in to empty houses, where he meets and falls in love with a married woman. 269-1101. Secrets of a S...
4.8K - Jun. 12, 2009; scored 56.0 Trio has a close encounter of the damp kind
CHARLESTON - It was a perfect day for crabbing on the bay. Good company and sun. Barking sea lions. Orcas. Silent sea lions. Orcas?! As Phil and Gail Koenen crabbed in the bay with their neighbor Ronald Huff, they were a little more than surprised to...
3.0K - May. 21, 2009; scored 89.0 Blue whales make return to Alaska waters
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say. The endangered whales, possibly the ...
4.6K - May. 18, 2009; scored 1000.0 Local tourism gets national attention
This has been my secret dream, to make it into USA Today! trumpeted Katherine Hoppe in an e-mail sent round the community. No, the Coos Bay-North Bend Visitor Convention Bureau promotions director didn t exactly make it into the nationwide newspa...
1.8K - May. 9, 2009; scored 56.0 Disney to plant 2.7M trees for Earth
LOS ANGELES (AP) Walt Disney Studios is turning box-office cash from its nature documentary Earth into seed money to plant trees in the rain forest. Disney had announced it would plant one tree in Brazil s endangered Atlantic rain forest for ever...
0.8K - May. 1, 2009; scored 56.0 This is 'Earth,' and it's spectacular
LOS ANGELES It s fundamental, cycle-of-life stuff that happens all day, every day, year-round, worldwide. Seasons change. Animals give birth and die. They migrate to find food. Some are hunters, some are hunted. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly s...
3.6K - Apr. 24, 2009; scored 56.0 Navy proposal debate has just begun
Oregon's U.S. senators struck the right tone in last week's letter to the U.S. Navy. They expressed concern, not hysteria, about expanding the Navy's offshore training range. Rather than condemn the proposal, they asked for further consideration and ...
1.9K - Apr. 14, 2009; scored 56.0 Navy confirms it used sonar in Washington strait
FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. (AP) - A U.S. Navy spokeswoman says the submarine USS San Francisco used sonar when it passed through the Strait of Juan de Fuca earlier this week. Hydrophones operated by the Friday Harbor-based Whale Museum in Washington's San ...
1.1K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 130.0 Dead whale washes up near Florence
FLORENCE (AP) - Another dead whale has washed up on the beach at the Oregon coast, only a few miles from where a whale was buried last month. The juvenile gray whale that washed up near Florence appeared emaciated. State parks officials said there wa...
0.7K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 808.0 | 
