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Normal 0 Straight out of the gate newly sworn-in Governor Kitzhaber is talking economy. The economy and jobs.   There's the $2 million in unspent federal stimulus money to conduct energy audits at 500 Oregon schools.   There are Administrative changes designed to better i... Read more

Normal 0 The Last Stand:  You want a Cascadia we know and love or Cascadia Incorporated?  Here is the link you are going to want for all your Jordan Cove LNG outraged comment needs:  The Port's Removal / Fill Application can be linked from here:http://www.statelandsonli... Read more

Normal 0 A year after a massive earthquake struck Haiti  January 12th 2010 – and despitte the promises of aid that poured in from around the world -  More than 1 million Haitians continue to live in hundreds DIY salvaged and scavenged shelter.  At least 230,000 people we... Read more

Normal 0 Tonight Dante's (W. Burnside at 3rd) is hosting a circu-themed event Cirque du Civil right.  It's a bene fit for the Civil Liberties Defense Center.  Be there!   And more:  On January 10, 2011, at 10:00 AM at the new Director's Park, SW 8thand SW Yamhill in downt... Read more

Normal 0 The ranks of those fighting to preserve the last of Cascadia's wildlands will wince at this one:  The Oregon Roundtable on Sustainable Forests will hold an all-day forum Jan. 10 to discuss issues related to local forests.  Those of us following the fate of Orego... Read more

The websites you want:  www.allagainstthehaul.org and www.fightinggoliath.org.  Then search engine oregontoxicsalliance and see what you get.  Synergy is what happens when serendipitous elements swarm together to create something new.  If the elements in the swarm are for t... Read more

Bull Run:   Normal 0 Portland tested 750 samples of Bull Run water last year for the potentially lethal parasite cryptosporidium in Oregon's largest source of drinking water.  The City That Drinks sampled  3,500 gallons over 12 months from the reservoirs' intakes and pot... Read more

You know you want to keep Bagby safe from strip mall malfeasance.  There are many places to soak in hot water that are readily available to the private ssector.  But the Forest Service is hot to sell off a treasured sanctuary that devoted volunteers have maintained for Lo, ... Read more

Bagby Lives!  That's right...The Forest Service is not privatising Bagby - at least not yet and at least not behind closed doors.  At least not some doors.  The Forest Service is anything but.  The doors to timber industry lobbyiests are orever open to some but not to other... Read more

Normal 0 Investigative journalist, Janet Phelan has hit a deep nerve in the Judicial-Industrial brainstem:  What she has uncovered is the Perfect Crime as well as the only legal, airtight bag in which to silence whistleblowers.  Thanks to dubious accidental loopholes in ... Read more