Stars align for World Series
NEW YORK ” All-Stars at most spots, mixed in with MVPs and Cy Young winners. A rich roster, full of World Series success. So how come the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies are such underdogs? Probably because they re facing the team tha...
 4.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 60.0 Report: Amtrak loses $32 per passenger
WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. taxpayers spent about $32 subsidizing the cost of the typical Amtrak passenger in 2008, about four times the rail operator s estimate, according to a private study. Amtrak operates a nationwide rail network, serving more t...
3.0K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 881.0 Amtrak stops Redding to Medford bus service
REDDING, Calif. (AP) Amtrak California has canceled its bus route from Redding to Southern Oregon because of low ridership. The canceled route is part of Amtrak California s Thruway bus service, which originates in Sacramento and is an extension of...
0.9K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 1000.0 Health debate obscures truth
Getting there early to assure myself a seat at the Obamacare town hall meeting in North Bend on Aug. 14, allowed me to be close to the action. I have much respect for Congressman Peter DeFazio, who has done many good things for his district and the s...
2.5K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 60.0 Amtrak enhances Portland-Vancouver, B.C., options
PORTLAND (AP) Amtrak has begun offering same-day rail service between Portland and Vancouver, British Columbia. Traveling by rail between the two cities previously required an overnight stay in Seattle to transfer to another train. Completing the t...
0.4K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 240.0 OTC reserves funds for projects
SALEM (AP) Earlier this year, the Oregon Transportation Commission allotted $234 million in economic-recovery dollars to various state projects. But now, bids are coming in lower than initially expected, by about 19 percent. Contractors sa...
0.6K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 60.0 Private care could save your life
The so-called government option to health care reform will not work, and has never worked anywhere it has been implemented. Over the past several months many contributors to editorial pages have clamored for national health care. Their premise has be...
2.4K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 60.0 North Dakota officials watching dikes, dam
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota National Guard members patrolled dikes today along the swollen Sheyenne River, already pushing against the town's defenses at a record level, and engineers monitored an upstream dam. The elderly, disabled and peo...
3.4K - Apr. 15, 2009; scored 94.0 West Coast Amtrak get $137.2 million
PORTLAND (AP) Two West Coast Amtrak routes, the Starlight and the Cascade, will get $137.2 million in federal funds from the Omnibus Spending Bill and a continuing resolutions measure that is intended to keep government going until a budge...
0.7K - Mar. 21, 2009; scored 310.0 Obama to sign spending measure
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama plans to sign a massive spending bill to keep the federal government running, even though it is stashed with the very kinds of pet projects that the campaigning Obama promised to resist. Obama could sign the &...
4.4K - Mar. 11, 2009; scored 60.0 Senate forced to vote on stopgap
WASHINGTON The Senate, tied up in a fight over a huge omnibus appropriations bill, will have to pass a stopgap spending measure today in order to avoid a partial government shutdown. The Senate worked late on Thursday trying to pass the $...
5.1K - Mar. 6, 2009; scored 60.0 Congress looks to boost domestic spending
WASHINGTON (AP) With one of their own in the White House, Democrats in Congress are moving to give domestic government agencies 8 percent more money, on average, to spend this year atop the whopping $787 billion in economic stimulus funds....
4.3K - Feb. 25, 2009; scored 60.0 Northwest flooding closes roads, stalls commerce
CENTRALIA, Wash. Floods, mudslides and avalanches in the Pacific Northwest kept tens of thousands of people from their homes and stranded hundreds of trucks along the major highways that link Seattle s busy ports with markets around the country. Th...
4.3K - Jan. 9, 2009; scored 60.0 Rain eases, but floods plague Washington
SNOQUALMIE, Wash. More than 30,000 people have been urged to leave their flood-endangered Western Washington homes as snowmelt and rain swelled rivers cause mudslides and avalanches that are engulfing neighborhoods and roadways. Though the pounding...
4.1K - Jan. 8, 2009; scored 60.0 Amtrak cancels service between Portland, Seattle
SEATTLE (AP) Amtrak has suspended train service between Portland and Seattle due to mudslides. Amtrak says there will be no train service between Seattle and Portland from today through Saturday. Amtrak has also cancelled service between Spokane an...
0.5K - Jan. 8, 2009; scored 721.0 Weather knocks power out to 200,000 homes
DETROIT Crews were working to restore electricity to nearly 200,000 Michigan homes and businesses early today, a day after strong winds knocked down tree limbs and power lines, while residents in parts of the Northwest braced for another winter sto...
2.5K - Dec. 29, 2008; scored 94.0 Interstate 84 reopens east of Portland
PORTLAND (AP) The Portland region took a breather between storms on Tuesday, as National Guard troops helped to get medical supplies and transportation to the eastern suburb Gresham where people were socked in so hard that regular emergency vehicle...
3.1K - Dec. 23, 2008; scored 60.0 Winter snow storm stymies Northern Oregon
PORTLAND City buses got stuck in snow, parts of major highways were closed, and traffic slowed to crawl as the Portland area which rarely gets a significant snowstorm struggled Monday to cope with one of its worst in years. Wintry weather that ...
4.6K - Dec. 23, 2008; scored 60.0 Storm paralyzes Portland
PORTLAND (AP) City buses got stuck in snow, parts of major highways were closed, and traffic slowed to crawl as Portland and the rest of Western Oregon which rarely gets a significant snowstorm struggled Monday to cope with one of its worst in ...
4.3K - Dec. 22, 2008; scored 60.0 I-84 closed as winter storm paralyzes N. Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Icy wind and heavy snow from a Pacific storm system closed Interstate 84 and was expected to bring even more treacherous driving conditions with freezing rain in heavily populated areas through the weekend. The storm was the third and...
3.7K - Dec. 21, 2008; scored 60.0 | 
