Electric bikes trace route of car executives to DC
WASHINGTON (AP) An Oregon company that makes electric motorcycles thinks it has a homegrown solution to the nation s energy woes. To prove it, the company sent two riders on a 10-day odyssey from Detroit to Washington, re-creating the 2008 trip of ...
 3.4K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 195.0 Former Coos lawyer up for U.S. attorney
PORTLAND (AP) A former Coos County prosecutor is among the final three candidates for U.S. attorney for Oregon. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden s office has announced the finalists Tuesday. Their names are being forwarded to President Obama. The list includes ...
1.5K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 213.0 Reedsport saves big money on levee deal
REEDSPORT The city of Reedsport has partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to get its flood levees inspected and certified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Not only will the move save the city tens of thousands of dollars, it will prevent resid...
3.4K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 221.0 'On the hot seat'
WASHINGTON Forget mission accomplished. Try mission seemingly impossible. With the Senate Finance Committee on the verge of approving a sweeping health overhaul bill Tuesday, the path might appear open for action by the full Senate. But first the ...
4.4K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 283.0 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 248.0 USFS backs new Wilderness area near Reedsport
GRANTS PASS The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area near Reedsport. It s in an area of the Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil s Staircase. The agency s deputy chief, Joel Haltrop, appeared Th...
2.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 195.0 Stimulus funds local forest projects
Oregon will receive more than $17 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to protect forests on the South Coast and in Southern, Central and Eastern Oregon from wildfires, invasive species and disease outbreaks. The funding w...
1.1K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 238.0 Sen. Wyden will talk health care at town halls
Legislators will be heading back to Washington, D.C., next week, where questions loom about health care reform. Before heading east, Sen. Ron Wyden will be talking about the issue with South Coast residents at four town hall meetings, including one i...
2.7K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 386.0 Sheriff nabs committee post
Coos County Sheriff Andy Jackson is helping Oregon s senators recommend candidates for the state s U.S. Attorney and U.S. Marshal positions. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have appointed 13 people to interview candidates for the federal posts, incl...
1.7K - Aug. 1, 2009; scored 296.0 Obama picks new member for FERC
President Barack Obama has nominated a longtime aide to former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack to serve on the federal board overseeing siting of liquefied natural gas terminals. John Norris, who currently serves as Vilsack s chief of staff at the Agricult...
1.0K - Jun. 12, 2009; scored 173.0 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 273.0 Mr. Merkley comes from Washington
COOS BAY - As Oregon's junior U.S. senator, Jeff Merkley sees himself playing a supporting role alongside fellow Senate Democrat Ron Wyden. He's pushing Wyden's plan to restructure the country's health care plan and wants to do what he can to keep ti...
3.6K - May. 29, 2009; scored 291.0 Wyden fires back on health ad
WASHINGTON Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is firing back at labor unions that have criticized him for supporting a health care plan that could tax some health care benefits for upper-income workers. Three labor unions have spent $60,000 on radio ad...
3.4K - May. 23, 2009; scored 339.0 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 246.0 Stimulus funds target forests
Oregon's U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Tuesday that Oregon will get more than $120 million in stimulus funds for Forest Service projects. The allocation will send millions of dollars to projects in Coos and Curry countie...
1.7K - Apr. 22, 2009; scored 195.0 Navy proposal debate has just begun
Oregon's U.S. senators struck the right tone in last week's letter to the U.S. Navy. They expressed concern, not hysteria, about expanding the Navy's offshore training range. Rather than condemn the proposal, they asked for further consideration and ...
1.9K - Apr. 14, 2009; scored 213.0 Senators contest coastal Navy operations
Two Oregon senators are challenging the U.S. Navy's plans to double its training operations off the Oregon Coast. The Democrats, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, sent a letter to the Navy this week saying they are concerned the training might damage the e...
1.8K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 253.0 Fishing industries ask Navy to step back
TILLAMOOK Representatives of the state s commercial and sport fishing industries are urging the U.S. Navy to refrain from stepping up training efforts off the Oregon Coast. They are suggesting working closely with the Oregon Department of Fish and ...
3.7K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 241.0 Wyden sets a fine example
They used to call 20th Century politician Al Smith The Happy Warrior. Sen. Ron Wyden might just be this century s equivalent; one seldom sees him without a smile and an upbeat nature. Wyden made a pledge to visit every county in the state of Oregon ...
1.0K - Feb. 27, 2009; scored 238.0 Navy to hold one coastal meeting
Will South Coast residents get a chance to testify before U.S. Navy officials on their Pacific Ocean training plan or won t they? It all depends on whether people want to drive to Tillamook. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden has been talking with military official...
1.6K - Feb. 19, 2009; scored 296.0 | 
