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 219.0 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 514.0 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 473.0 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 507.0 County needlessly drags out ORC talks
Dithering commissioners blow chance at $1.5 m yearly revenue That s what the headline will read if Coos County commissioners don t get on the ball and do something to secure the royalties from Oregon Resources chromite mining operations. OR...
2.3K - May. 23, 2009; scored 219.0 Feds get time to decide course of logging lawsuit
GRANTS PASS - The Obama administration has been given more time to decide whether it wants to defend the lawsuits challenging Bush administration plans to boost logging on federal forests in Western Oregon. In papers filed in the various federal cour...
2.5K - May. 21, 2009; scored 361.0 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 501.0 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 619.0 Questions surround layoff decision
Kevin Stufflebean is trying to convince the public there was a budget shortfall and severe cuts were made in the Road Department. The County timber payments were renewed last year. Payments for this year were 90 percent of last year's payment which e...
2.4K - Apr. 27, 2009; scored 326.0 County recall: Points and counterpoints
Secret meetings. Disregard for public safety. Lies. Character assassination. Coos County Commissioner Kevin Stufflebean and those trying to recall him have traded fiery accusations. Voters have to decide who s right. Here are summaries of what both s...
9.7K - Apr. 18, 2009; scored 219.0 Stufflebean, critic debate recall
NORTH BEND - Coos County Commissioner Kevin Stufflebean says the men and women trying to recall him from office are an anti-development special interest group. Recall organizers say Stufflebean is a politician who sidesteps public process, as he did...
5.0K - Apr. 16, 2009; scored 282.0 DeFazio can still pack them in
COOS BAY - U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio drew a large crowd to Coos Bay Public Library on Tuesday and kept the assembled entertained as only a 12-term congressman can. He took digs at former President Bush and CEOs profiting from federal bailouts, while mi...
3.9K - Apr. 15, 2009; scored 219.0 County to begin budget talks
Coos County has scheduled several budget work sessions starting this week. The Board of Commissioners, County Treasurer Mary Barton and various department managers will attend the meetings to discuss department budget proposals. Coos County Commissio...
1.8K - Apr. 13, 2009; scored 219.0 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 1000.0 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 1000.0 Obama may kill logging increase
GRANTS PASS Conservationists hope that President Barack Obama s new direction on the Endangered Species Act will derail the U.S. Bureau of Land Management s plans to increase logging in Western Oregon. Obama announced Tuesday that rather than follo...
2.6K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 393.0 Not even caves are recession proof
FESTUS, Mo. A lot of people are struggling to keep their homes in these tough economic times. One suburban St. Louis family is trying to keep its cave. That is, a cave that s also a home. Curt and Deborah Sleeper of Festus bought 3 acres of propert...
4.0K - Feb. 27, 2009; scored 219.0 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 707.0 Musical valentines
Talking to Franklin Turner and Carol Rose is like opening a musical valentine. Sweethearts in life and on the stage, they hit it off since he first saw her sitting in the audience at one of his performances. The two met in 1985 when Turner, a pianist...
3.7K - Feb. 6, 2009; scored 219.0 BLM rolls out first timber sale under new plan
GRANTS PASS The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is rolling out the first new timber sale under the Western Oregon Plan Revision, known as The Whopper. In documents posted on the Internet Jan. 27, the BLM s Coos Bay District is proposing 1,400 acres ...
3.9K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 457.0 | 
