Insurer dumps Medicare patients
As many as 1,300 Coos County residents enrolled in a Medicare Advantage organization will need to find a new insurance carrier starting Jan. 1. A change could cost them from $17 to nearly $200 more per month for the private insuranc...
4.8K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 192.0

Wyden, DeFazio blast Lane County timber money policy
GRANTS PASS (AP) Two members of Oregon s congressional delegation are afraid that they won t be able to win renewal of billions of dollars for rural counties hurt by national forest logging cutbacks unless Lane County spends some of its share to re...
3.9K - Jun. 3, 2009; scored 340.0

Keep timber on lawmakers' minds
The sad truth is, Oregon lacks the political power to keep federal timber money coming. So Oregon's freshman senator is doing what politicians do when they can't do anything. He's proposing a task force. It may seems like a limp strategy, but it may ...
2.0K - Apr. 29, 2009; scored 212.0

Merkley pushes aid for counties
WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley introduced his first piece of legislation Monday - a measure to create a 15-member task force to study ways to help timber-dependent counties in Oregon. Merkley, who took office in January, had promised durin...
3.6K - Apr. 28, 2009; scored 326.0

BLM change could cut county aid
When Coos County s timber aid runs out in 2011, will the county still get federal timber money? Yes, but no consistent dollar amount. The Coos Bay District of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has answered that question on the minds of county leader...
5.9K - Mar. 5, 2009; scored 217.0

BLM change could cut county aid
When Coos County s timber aid runs out in 2011, will the county still get federal timber money? Yes, but no consistent dollar amount. The Coos Bay District of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has answered that question on the minds of county leader...
7.5K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 217.0

Oregon report: Plan for end of timber safety net
GRANTS PASS Rural counties in Oregon the nation s top recipient of an unusual federal subsidy will have to raise taxes and take other painful steps to prepare for the day when it ends, a governor s task force said on Thursday. That day will be ...
5.7K - Feb. 13, 2009; scored 301.0

Second state rural Congress will focus on transportation
Coos County will host the second Oregon Rural Congress from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, at The Mill Casino-Hotel in North Bend. The Oregon Rural Congress is open to the public and anyone with concerns about rural Oregon issues. The first Oregon ...
1.1K - Nov. 20, 2008; scored 1000.0