What's next for health care?
WASHINGTON Don t look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. They ...
 5.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 179.0 Obama coaxes states to change with school dollars
WASHINGTON One year after his election, President Barack Obama is coaxing states across the country to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they pursue his vision for school reform. Obama is visiting Wisconsin, where lawmakers are po...
4.0K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 179.0 Liberals likely to accept compromise on health care
WASHINGTON (AP) They may not like it, but many House liberals look ready to accept a compromise health care bill, putting Democratic leaders well on the way to delivering on President Barack Obama s call for overhaul. After claiming for months they...
5.1K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 179.0 4-H kids pony up for new fair barn
A group of ambitious youngsters have dug into their own pockets to help fund a covered arena at the Coos County Fairgrounds in Myrtle Point. They are halfway to their goal of $40,000. Now, they are calling on the community to help come up with t...
3.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 179.0 Bandon avoided investing in police
If the city s first goal is public safety, then why is the council only committed to funding four of six police positions? Why was there a cut from seven officers? For years the city manager has tried to cut policing. In 2006, I explored raising our ...
2.3K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 268.0 Faculty at UO exploring union formation
EUGENE (AP) Concerns about low pay and a rift with administration have faculty members at the University of Oregon exploring the possibility of forming a union. The effort is still in the beginning stages with meetings on campus to discuss the idea...
3.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 179.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 179.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 179.0 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 268.0 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 268.0 City may pay SCDC invoice
The city of Coos Bay has reached a compromise with the South Coast Development Council regarding payment for services in 2008. Interim City Manager Rodger Craddock and Councilor Mark Daily met with SCDC officials Oct. 8 and tentatively agreed for the...
1.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 447.0 Meet a potential airport director
Staff Writer, Nate Traylor Coos County Airport District commissioners are down to choosing from among three candidates for the executive director position. Two are from Florida and one is from California, but commissioners aren t saying yet who they ...
1.1K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 231.0 Health care vote nears in Senate
WASHINGTON A Senate committee moved today toward a pivotal vote on a sweeping health care bill that fulfills President Barack Obama s top domestic priority. It s time to get the job done, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus declared as he conve...
4.8K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 179.0 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 268.0 Coos Bay is in no rush to hire leader
The Coos Bay City Council is in a holding pattern on hiring a city manager, in the aftermath of the last office holder s firing. Police Chief Rodger Craddock has served as acting city manager since the council voted to terminate Chuck Freeman s contr...
2.1K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 296.0 No choir? Millicoma students crowd band classes
COOS BAY Oregon s budget crisis has put Dominique Miller in the spotlight, at least during part of her school day. The sixth-grade student has taken up bass drumming, after the choir class she was in last year at Millicoma Intermediate School was c...
5.0K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 296.0 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 179.0 Ashland schools get loan to cover payroll
ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) The Ashland School District is taking out a $1.6 million loan to cover payroll this fall. The district s general fund was hurt by budget cuts this spring, forcing it to borrow money upfront to meet costs. Business manage...
0.6K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 179.0 School contracts head to mediation
Coos Bay and North Bend teachers have pulled out their picket signs and dug in their heels. The unions representing the teachers haven t been able to agree to a new contract with their districts, despite several months of negotiations. Now both are h...
2.9K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 179.0 SCINT doubles its staff
COQUILLE The Coos County Sheriff s Office is more than doubling its narcotics detective staff with hopes it will cut crime on the street. Currently, the South Coast Interagency Narcotics Team has only two detectives and one administrative aid. The ...
2.9K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 179.0 | 
