Local panel fields questions on health policy
When Rep. Peter DeFazio visited the coast three months ago, people crowded into town halls to vehemently voice concerns and ask questions about public health care reform. It was a different setting Saturday morning at Coos Bay City Hall. A panel of e...
 7.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 135.0 Interior, BLM offers 62 timber sales in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest management strategy....
4.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 160.0 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 135.0 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 160.0 Chandler future is on shaky ground
COOS BAY ” One of the last tenants to leave The Chandler Hotel before workers boarded up its ground-floor windows was Rita Todd. Owner of Design Renaissance, an interior design business, Todd had operated out of a storefront on Second Str...
5.6K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 135.0 Bradbury s in
PORTLAND ” Former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury is entering the race to be the state s next governor. Bradbury, who served in the Legislature for 14 years, was to formally announce today, according to his spokesman Jeremy Wright....
3.6K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 135.0 Stop labeling and start thinking
This is in response to a letter by Mr. Daniel Cook (The World, Aug. 29). I resent, by inference, that since I like Rep. DeFazio, I am a socialist. Far from it. I get as mad as anyone at the people in our community who get public assistance, not becau...
1.7K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 205.0 Kitzhaber's return shakes up 2010 race field
SALEM (AP) Former governor John Kitzhaber s pursuit of a record third term puts pressure on fellow Democrats who might want the job, and it could complicate the job of Republican leaders lining up prospective candidates. A former emergency room phy...
4.4K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 160.0 Kitzhaber bid for Ore. governor seems likely
SALEM (AP) Speculation is mounting that former Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber will announce this week he s going to run for an unprecedented third term as Oregon s top leader. Kitzhaber is keeping mum for now, but friends believe he s ready to jump...
3.3K - Sep. 1, 2009; scored 180.0 Springfield man takes on DeFazio
The mayor of Springfield took a tour of the South Coast this week on the heels of Rep. Peter DeFazio s town hall meetings. Sid Leiken is hoping he ll have another chance to follow in the Springfield Democrat s footsteps as the next congressman from...
1.6K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 764.0 Cheers & Jeers
No shenanigans Cheers to the 1,200 South Coast residents who packed Rep. Peter DeFazio s town hall meeting on Thursday. It was an impressive example of civic discussion in a civil atmosphere. No shred of truth Shame on Sarah Palin for keeping alive t...
1.8K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 135.0 Crowd jams health care meeting
NORTH BEND - Rep. Peter DeFazio didn t have to fight with hecklers or shout down demonstrators at his last town hall meeting Thursday. The noise he had to contend with most was applause. The more than 1,200 people who crammed into the North Bend Comm...
4.4K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 245.0 CB native gets Bronze Star - 40 years later
NORTH BEND It s been over 40 years, but it is still very clear what happened that day, Michael Harris said. When you re in situations like that it feels like everything is in slow motion. I just reacted. Now, four decades later, the 61-year-old ...
2.6K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 160.0 DeFazio talks health care at heated town hall meeting
GRANTS PASS U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio ran into a buzzsaw of fear and misinformation about federal health care reform proposals Wednesday on his first day of town hall meetings during the Congressional recess. At a stop in Grants Pass, the Springfie...
2.9K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 215.0 DeFazio talks health care at heated town hall meeting
GRANTS PASS U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio ran into a buzzsaw of fear and misinformation about federal health care reform proposals Wednesday on his first day of town hall meetings during the Congressional recess. At a stop in Grants Pass, the Springfield...
2.5K - Aug. 13, 2009; scored 215.0 Let's have a productive conversation
We Americans can be a passionate and fractious people. We sometimes shout our political viewpoints, and debate occasionally begets violence. We once fought a civil war. In saner moments, however, Americans show a noble willingness to endure disagreem...
1.9K - Aug. 12, 2009; scored 180.0 DeFazio moves town hall location
Rep. Peter DeFazio expects to have a full house when he comes to North Bend on Thursday. He was planning to have as many as 80 constituents to stop in and talk with him about health care and other issues. After getting lots of calls from people plann...
1.4K - Aug. 12, 2009; scored 180.0 GOP challenger plans to attend town hall meetings
At least one of the two Republicans seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., in the next election plans to attend some of the congressman s town hall meetings. Jaynee Germond of Roseburg said she s considering making a swing out to the coas...
1.3K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 160.0 DeFazio expects no disruptions
Rep. Peter DeFazio is coming to the coast this week and he's expecting a lot of questions about health care reform. Some of the Springfield Democrat's colleagues have faced rude receptions at similar events in the past week over the subject. The 12-t...
6.1K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 1000.0 Don't let lunatics lead discussion
Republi-thugs, bought by the health care industry, are instructed to disrupt Democratic town hall meetings in congressional districts throughout the nation in the next few weeks. If you attend a meeting hosted by Rep. Peter DeFazio in North Bend on T...
0.8K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 160.0 | 
