Boat center isn't exactly breaking ground
Saturday s boat building center groundbreaking on the Empire waterfront will be atypical for several reasons. The most obvious is there s already a building there. In fact, workers already have spent time improving the facility since the city signed ...
 2.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 70.0 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 70.0 Bandon police levy fails
Bandon voters narrowly defeated a measure that would have provided more money to the city s police department. The Coos County Elections Office released totals Tuesday night that showed 51.5 percent of voters were opposed to the tax, while 48.5 favor...
2.5K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 154.0 Bandon fights the odds on police levy
Bandon officials say the day is approaching when the police department won t have enough officers to provide 24-hour protection. They are hoping taxpayers will dig deeper into their pockets to help pay for police officer salaries. Voters in the city ...
4.9K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 505.0 Bandon runs a fiscally tight ship
It was with interest I read Jim Giambrone s letter (The World, Oct. 27). This is the same man who tried to coerce the city s budget committee into hiring an eighth officer two years ago. Police Chief Bob Webb told us there were other things he needed...
2.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 70.0 Teachers renew legal fight with Sizemore
PORTLAND Two Oregon teacher unions have gone back to court against political activist Bill Sizemore to accuse him again of racketeering, this time in the 2008 elections. The legal battle between Sizemore and the unions dates to 2002 and a racketeer...
3.4K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 105.0 Alienated and now radicalized
In the brief age of Obama, we have had truthers, birthers, Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the Oath Keepers. And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where on...
3.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 90.0 Bandon ballots are on the way
BANDON Coos County election workers have dropped Bandon ballots in the box, the mailbox that is, for the Nov. 3 election. Bandon residents are being asked to decide whether to impose a 5-year property tax levy to generate funds for the police depar...
1.9K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 70.0 Property owners along Rogue bemoan removal of dam
ROGUE RIVER Jan Tarantino peers over her summer patio and dock on what used to be Savage Lake, looking down at the Rogue River flowing more than 15 feet below. The dock was a fishing platform and diving board for the past 10 summers when Savage R...
5.7K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 105.0 Unrattled, caretaker lives serenely in graveyard
EUGENE George Dull has 5,000 neighbors and they re all dead. For 18 years, the caretaker of Eugene Pioneer Cemetery has lived in a trailer in the middle of the historic site, amid the shadows of lofty Douglas firs and intricate tombstones. By day...
4.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 105.0 Time is ticking on LNG deal
Port officials are trying to hammer out a new deal with Jordan Cove Energy Project before existing land sale agreements expire later this year. The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay has scheduled a special meeting at 1:15 p.m. Thursday to conside...
1.8K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 70.0 Building location faces city fine
The city of Coos Bay has imposed fines on the owner of an unfinished building on North Broadway. The property, owned by Bay Cities Building Co. of Coos Bay, is intended to be the future home of KDCQ radio. But construction ground to a halt after the ...
3.0K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 126.0 What's Michael Moore talking about?
Michael Moore is confused. His new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, begins by suggesting all was well until Ronald Reagan became president and cut the top 90 percent income tax rate. Everything was downhill from there. Adding to the confusion, he l...
2.9K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 111.0 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 449.0 Sign of the old times
REEDSPORT History may be repeating itself in Gardiner. The large, brown historical marker in that town was just one year old when Ray and Loraine Potter moved to Gardiner in 1952. These days it looks its age, after five decades sitting under the su...
3.0K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 70.0 NB vs. tribe
The Coquille Indian Tribe doesn t want its legal tussle with the city of North Bend to play out in state court. On Tuesday, the tribe and the Coquille Economic Development Corp. filed a petition to move the dispute to U.S. District Court in Eugene. A...
1.7K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 70.0 Hospitals pile up unpaid bills while providing care to uninsured
COOS BAY The Bay Area Hospital emergency room was relatively quiet Monday morning. Patients lay in only a handful of the 14 beds. The ambulance bay and trauma center were empty, allowing some of the physicians and nurses a chance to chat for a mome...
5.2K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 70.0 Myrtle Point mill expands, hires
MYRTLE POINT A local alder mill is growing despite a recession that is hammering the lumber industry. W L Lumber, formerly known as W L Contractors, has added a lumber-drying kiln and a planer to its existing alder mill and chipping facility. The ...
5.5K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 204.0 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 70.0 City might have legal right to cut sewer service
The Coquille Tribe doesn t think the city can do it. But a representative of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says the city of North Bend, in its lawsuit against the tribe, just might be able to legally shut off sewer services to The Mi...
4.3K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 105.0 | 
