Message to Coos Bay: Get along or lose businesses
COOS BAY A facilitator with the League of Oregon Cities has given Coos Bay city councilors an incentive to resolve their differences. A dysfunctional city council could negatively impact one of its primary goals: economic development, she warned. P...
 3.6K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 577.0 Message to Coos Bay: Get along or lose businesses
COOS BAY A facilitator with the League of Oregon Cities has given Coos Bay city councilors an incentive to resolve their differences. A dysfunctional city council could negatively impact one of its primary goals: economic development, she warned. P...
3.8K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 577.0 Coquille taps Matt Muenchrath
COQUILLE Two months after the city found out it still had an open seat on the Coquille City Council following November s election, the councilors themselves voted on the matter Monday night. About 50 people packed into the council s chambers at cit...
3.5K - Jan. 6, 2009; scored 1000.0 Coquille council will select new councilor Monday
A candidate who thought she deserved to win a Coquille City Council seat in November will have another chance on Monday. But so will two other also-rans and two newcomers. Dian Courtright, a vocal critic of past police department leadership, placed f...
2.1K - Jan. 3, 2009; scored 577.0 LNG firms should pay asking price
In response to the editorial (The World, Dec. 11), State should help regulate, not dictate LNG. If you, in fact, believe the government should not require any demonstration of need for the liquefied natural gas project, then I m sure you will agree ...
0.8K - Dec. 18, 2008; scored 448.0 Eying the Coquille council
The Coquille City Council has five candidates in line to fill a vacant City Council seat. After Monday interviews councilors had planned to select someone to fill the four-year term, but opted to think about their selection until the Jan. 5 meeting....
6.4K - Dec. 16, 2008; scored 870.0 Industry can t run on subsidies
Sometimes optimistic liberal thinkers like to think in terms of dream solutions such as wind and wave power so John Muenchrath s diesel train miles per gallon was slightly incorrect and should have said ton miles/gallon. While that is a significant s...
2.4K - Nov. 22, 2008; scored 448.0 Legislation could ease pollution
In response to The World Newspaper's article, Two greenhouse gases on the rise worry scientists (Oct. 26), I agree that we need to take steps to decrease the amount of methane and nitrogen triflouride in our environment. However, as stated in the a...
1.7K - Nov. 13, 2008; scored 448.0 | 
