Early returns show school bond passing
VERNONIA (AP) Vernonia schools damaged by Nehalem River flooding in 2007 may be replaced if early returns in a $13 million bond measure hold up. Columbia County voters were approving the measure about 3-to-2 to provide funding for a new K-12 s...
 0.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 581.0 Governor paves way for NFL to return to Los Angeles
INDUSTRY, Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday he has signed a bill allowing the construction of a 75,000-seat stadium that developers hope will lure an NFL team back to the Los Angeles area. Schwarzenegger said he signed the environment...
5.5K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 389.0 Honoring an institution
COOS BAY - Bay Area Hospital has become such an institution in the community, offering health care and more than 1,000 jobs, it s easy to forget its construction attracted fierce opposition. One person who needs no reminder of the hospital s bumpy in...
5.1K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 389.0 Honoring an institution
COOS BAY ” Bay Area Hospital has become such an institution in the community, offering health care and more than 1,000 jobs, it s easy to forget its construction attracted fierce opposition. One person who needs no reminder of the hospital s b...
5.0K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 389.0 NB schools want levy on spring 2010 ballot
NORTH BEND The North Bend School District is getting on track to place a local option levy on the spring 2010 ballot to pay for items and potentially employees lost in recent rounds of budget cuts. At its regularly scheduled meeting Monday, the Nor...
3.0K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 502.0 We won t back down
WASHINGTON Rainbow flags fluttered above the crowds near the White House as tens of thousands of gay rights supporters rallied to demand that President Barack Obama keep his promises to end discrimination against gays and also let them serve openly...
4.1K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 389.0 Northwest wheat growers seeking local market
REARDAN, Wash. (AP) Fred Fleming stands in a field of golden wheat, surveying miles of grain as it gradually succumbs to the power of tanklike harvesters. It s been more than a century since his great-grandfather first drove horses across these Eas...
7.9K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 389.0 Senate moves toward historic high court vote
WASHINGTON Sonia Sotomayor stands on the verge of making history as the Supreme Court s first Hispanic justice, despite staunch opposition from Republicans who call her ill-suited for the bench. The Democratic-led Senate is set to vote today to co...
4.1K - Aug. 6, 2009; scored 502.0 Job counts raise questions
PORTLAND How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy? In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remar...
5.3K - Jul. 28, 2009; scored 389.0 California has plan to plug holes in budget
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Lawmakers on Friday approved a complex package of spending cuts, local government raids and accounting maneuvers to fill California's gigantic budget deficit, providing hope that the state might begin a slow climb out of a d...
6.4K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 581.0 California, Here We Come!
California hits the wall. And Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is at a place to which all of America is heading. In May, when five fundraising proposals were put on the ball...
4.0K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 581.0 State's winners and losers
Some of the major bills approved by the 2009 Oregon Legislature: JOBS With Oregon's unemployment rate second highest in the nation, Democratic legislative leaders used state bonds and raised taxes to put thousands of people to work on public works pr...
4.8K - Jun. 30, 2009; scored 581.0 Sports Briefs: Vikings give Favre deadline
MINNEAPOLIS The Minnesota Vikings reportedly have told Brett Favre to decide this week if he wants to play this year. Coach Brad Childress imposed the deadline on the star quarterback, according to ESPN. The network cited two unidentified sources o...
7.8K - Jun. 9, 2009; scored 581.0 State's $300M transportation package advances
SALEM After months of dealmaking, lawmakers have unanimously approved a $300 million-per-year transportation package funded through increases in the gas tax and registration, title and license plate fees. Legislators estimate the increased...
4.8K - May. 23, 2009; scored 389.0 Oregon coast town wants watershed protected
CANNON BEACH (AP) - The Ecola Creek watershed may get some extra protection if voters in the city of Cannon Beach approve the purchase of 800 acres of forest near the ocean. A $4 million bond measure to purchase the land is on the May 19 bal...
2.4K - May. 11, 2009; scored 615.0 Junction City prison could be delayed
SALEM (AP) - Construction of a 532-bed prison south of Junction City, which was to begin this summer, could be delayed because of the state's budget problems and a potential change to a criminal sentencing law. Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, said a...
2.3K - May. 8, 2009; scored 644.0 Parents pitch ideas to stop cuts
NORTH BEND - They had lots of ideas. Create a bond measure. Run the schools until the money peters out. Fundraise to keep jobs. But among the many pleas and opinions heard at a North Bend School District meeting Tuesday, the loudest came from student...
4.3K - May. 6, 2009; scored 694.0 Committee wants to continue the NB pool upgrades
NORTH BEND - It's been about five years since the North Bend Municipal Pool's aquatics director and a group of community members began saving the pool. Concerned it would come crumbling down around swimmers' ears, they fundraised and planned for a sl...
4.5K - Apr. 17, 2009; scored 389.0 Safety team warns of bad wiring in Iraq
WASHINGTON - A military team sent to evaluate electrical problems at U.S. facilities in Iraq determined there was a high risk that flawed wiring could cause further catastrophic results - namely, the electrocutions of U.S. soldiers. The team said t...
5.1K - Apr. 8, 2009; scored 389.0 Obama administration unveils financial system overhaul
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the financial system today that is designed to impose greater regulation on major players like hedge funds. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told lawmakers that the changes...
5.9K - Mar. 26, 2009; scored 615.0 | 
