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* Oregon standoff: What you need to know Wednesday morning
* Oregon lawmakers scramble closer to deals on minimum wage, housing relief
* Tonight’s Powerball drawing: Jackpot at $1.5 billion, plus other payouts
* If energy policy is appropriate for short session, why not transportation funding?: Editorial — Opinion
* Portland longshore workers paid $1.2 million to not work at Port of Portland
* Public school students have a right to privacy OPINION — Guest Opinion
* Task force: Legislature should revisit campaign finance reform
* Linn County plans to sue state of Oregon
* Oregon is all in for Powerball — Opinion
* Armed group calls meeting to talk with Burns community
* Constitutional amendment on campaign finance reform goes to Legislature
* TrackTown USA going to Legislature for lodging tax, not Hayward Field upgrades
* Inflation in fantasyworld — Opinion
* State launches fraud investigation team
* Clerical error extends expired travel contract
* Legislature takes up hot issues before 2016 session
* Woodburn UGB proposal approved by state
* Marijuana licenses near 300 and counting
* USFWS On Malheur, SOTU Preview, Guns At PSU & Talking Business – Audio
* Oregon Lawmaker Wants To License Tobacco Retailers
* Rural Schools Get Big Share Of $9 Million In Education Grants
* Water battles will come to head in 2016, experts say
* Oregon labor unions fear setback in Supreme Court case
* Our View: Four-part Josephine safety levy is a bad idea — Guest Opinion
* Josephine County commissioners move ahead with a la carte levy approach
* Linn County plans class-action lawsuit against state
* Locals will rally at Capitol
* Outlook good
* Incline in jobs doesn’t mean drop in public assistance
* A first-person look at the inside of a medium-security prison
* Bentz appointed to Department of Energy Oversight Committee
* A message for Salem
* Activists overreached but so did feds — Guest Opinion
* Time for real discussion on land management — Opinion
* At Trestle Bay, better passage for fish
* Highway becomes a memorial to veterans of recent wars
* Rebirth, Part Two
* Which people are Refuge occupiers helping? — Opinion
* Harney County compromise — Opinion
* Group searching for fix to ODFW money woes
* Protesters rip out fence at refuge
* Keeping climbers safe
* Crook County gets tentative bikeway approval
* Editorial: Wishful thinking isn’t working at Malheur refuge — Opinion
* Groups still split on Oregon campaign finance limits
* Occupiers plan meeting to discuss refuge exit plan
* Column: A simple solution to public pension woes — Guest Opinion
* Dallas Heard, other elected officials, visit armed group in Harney County
* Guest Column: How important is the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge? — Guest Opinion
* Water worries
* Water outlook: Still need the moisture
* Walden: Can’t condone actions of armed protesters — Guest Opinion
* Go home: state’s message clear on refuge seizure — Opinion
* Let markets help deal with West’s wildfires — Guest Opinion
* Pacific Gales again goes before LUBA
* Our View: We’re better off than it sometimes appears — Opinion
* Oregon AG Rosenblum presses CDC in fight against painkiller abuse
* Rancher Rebellion At The Malheur Refuge Is Nothing New. Just Ask Nancy Ferguson.
* New State Emails Show Officials Ignored Foster-Care Abuses for More Than a Decade
* State Releases Investigation Log for Troubled Foster Care Provider Give Us This Day
* Fervor In Oregon Compound And Fear Outside It
* Lynne Saxton Reveals Her Top 10 List
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OREGON STANDOFF: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW WEDNESDAY MORNING (Portland Oregonian)
As we enter Day 12 of the standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, here are the latest developments.
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OREGON LAWMAKERS SCRAMBLE CLOSER TO DEALS ON MINIMUM WAGE, HOUSING RELIEF (Portland Oregonian)
Lawmakers, advocates and Gov. Kate Brown are circling around compromises on two of the signature issues looming over next month’s short legislative session: housing relief and whether to raise Oregon’s minimum wage.
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TONIGHT’S POWERBALL DRAWING: JACKPOT AT $1.5 BILLION, PLUS OTHER PAYOUTS (Portland Oregonian)
If you’re wondering if things changed overnight, they did not — the Powerball lottery jackpot remains at $1.5 billion before taxes.
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IF ENERGY POLICY IS APPROPRIATE FOR SHORT SESSION, WHY NOT TRANSPORTATION FUNDING?: EDITORIAL — OPINION (Portland Oregonian)
This year’s short legislative session will show Oregonians whether Gov. Kate Brown would rather lead a good thing for a governor to do – or follow, as she did last year by passively signing so much of what legislators saw fit to send her way. If she intends to lead, Brown must decide soon whether it’s appropriate to undertake heavy policy work during a session designed for small-bore and budgetary matters and then she must follow through with consistency.
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PORTLAND LONGSHORE WORKERS PAID $1.2 MILLION TO NOT WORK AT PORT OF PORTLAND (Portland Oregonian)
You work, you get paid. You don’t work, you still get paid.
It’s a deal that helped longshore union members at the Port of Portland collect more than a million dollars in salaries last year, even as cargo container traffic almost ground to a halt and workloads fell fast.
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PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS HAVE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY OPINION — GUEST OPINION (Portland Oregonian)
Every Dallas citizen I know desires to honor and respect every student, especially Elliot Yoder, because every person is an image bearer of the holy and sacred, and therefore shall be treated with dignity and respect. A recent Dallas School Board meeting reflected this concern for all students residing within the district.
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TASK FORCE: LEGISLATURE SHOULD REVISIT CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM (Portland Oregonian)
A state task force recommended Tuesday that lawmakers open the door to limits on campaign contribution in Oregon.
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LINN COUNTY PLANS TO SUE STATE OF OREGON (Salem Statesman Journal)
Linn County officials say they are planning to file a class-action lawsuit against the state of Oregon.
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OREGON IS ALL IN FOR POWERBALL — OPINION (Salem Statesman Journal)
First thing I’ll do is take time off work, charter a jet, rent the penthouse at a posh oceanfront resort in Hawaii, and invite the immediate family along to discuss plans while I sip Mai Tais on the beach.
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ARMED GROUP CALLS MEETING TO TALK WITH BURNS COMMUNITY (Salem Statesman Journal)
The armed activists occupying a national wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon said Tuesday that they plan to hold a community meeting this week to explain themselves and inform residents when they will leave.
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM GOES TO LEGISLATURE (Salem Statesman Journal)
A task force on campaign finance reform voted Tuesday to recommend changes to the Oregon Constitution that would allow limits to political campaign donations.
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TRACKTOWN USA GOING TO LEGISLATURE FOR LODGING TAX, NOT HAYWARD FIELD UPGRADES (Eugene Register-Guard)
Vin Lananna and TrackTown USA wont ask lawmakers for $15 million to upgrade Hayward Field in advance of the 2021 track and field world championships.Were going to have to fundraise it. It may slow the project down, Lananna said Tuesday.
Instead, the Eugene-based track impresarios will focus during the February legislative session on a proposal to double the state lodging tax, which would be expected to generate about $25 million for the championships and more for unrelated projects in future years.
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INFLATION IN FANTASYWORLD — OPINION (Eugene Register-Guard)
When the Oregon Lottery started up 30 years ago, the top prize was $1 million and that was enough to launch $1-a-ticket fantasies of quitting work and living in sun-drenched luxury. These days, it takes a lot more to ignite the imagination of the increasingly jaded ticket-buying public. The people who run state lotteries know that, which helps explain how the jackpot in today’s Powerball lottery grew to an estimated $1.4 billion. How long will be it before even a 10-digit prize seems ho-hum?
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STATE LAUNCHES FRAUD INVESTIGATION TEAM (Portland Tribune)
The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has merged its Insurance Division and Division of Finance and Corporate Securities to create a new Division of Financial Regulation.
The division’s mission is to protect consumers and regulate insurance, depository institutions, trust companies, securities and consumer financial products and services.
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CLERICAL ERROR EXTENDS EXPIRED TRAVEL CONTRACT (Portland Tribune)
The state of Oregon severed its ties to contract travel agent Azumano Travel Services on Dec. 14, after the Willamette Week newspaper reported the state had not put the contract out for competitive bidding since 2005.
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LEGISLATURE TAKES UP HOT ISSUES BEFORE 2016 SESSION (Portland Tribune)
Oregon legislative committees will hold interim hearings Wednesday through Friday, in advance of the short session that begins Feb. 1. Here are some of the most hearings that could get the most attention next week.
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WOODBURN UGB PROPOSAL APPROVED BY STATE (Portland Tribune)
After well over a decade of work, and an estimated $1 million or more in public funds and staff time expended, the city of Woodburns urban growth boundary UGB saga is finally coming to a close.
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MARIJUANA LICENSES NEAR 300 AND COUNTING (Portland Tribune)
Oregon’s recreational marijuana industry is officially off to the races.
Just days into the license application process, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission has received 282 applications as of Monday morning from producers, processors, retailers, wholesalers and even research facilities.
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USFWS ON MALHEUR, SOTU PREVIEW, GUNS AT PSU & TALKING BUSINESS – AUDIO (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Assistant regional director of the Pacific region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Jason Holm reacts to armed occupiers at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge removing a fence on federal land.
Oregon Institute of Technology student Lydia Doza tells us about her work getting Native American youth interested in science and math. Its earned her an invite to the State of the Union address as a guest of First Lady Michelle Obama.
We talk with Kendra Moon, president of a right-to-carry group at PSU, and with the Michele Toppe, the Dean of Students, about their perspectives about the appropriate role of guns on campus.
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OREGON LAWMAKER WANTS TO LICENSE TOBACCO RETAILERS (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Oregon is the only Northwest state that doesn’t require businesses selling tobacco products to be licensed. One lawmaker is introducing a bill that would change that.
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RURAL SCHOOLS GET BIG SHARE OF $9 MILLION IN EDUCATION GRANTS (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Twenty-five school systems in Oregon are splitting up $9 million in state grants to improve and expand career programs.
Most of the six-figure grants are going to schools outside the Willamette Valley, namely in eastern, southern, and coastal Oregon.
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WATER BATTLES WILL COME TO HEAD IN 2016, EXPERTS SAY (Capital Press)
-Battles of federal water regulations will shape the legal landscape for agriculture in 2016.-
Battles over water will likely shape agriculture’s legal landscape in 2016, with several high-profile lawsuits expected to come to a head over the next year, experts say.
Aside from litigation over the federal governments new waters of the U.S. rules, which critics say will greatly increase jurisdiction over private lands, farmers in the West are also fighting federal enforcement of existing regulations.
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OREGON LABOR UNIONS FEAR SETBACK IN SUPREME COURT CASE (East Oregonian)
-A case before the Supreme Court could have a significant impact on Oregon’s public sector unions.-
Oregon is one of more than 20 states that could feel significant impacts from a U.S. Supreme Court case that seeks to strip a longstanding power of public sector labor unions to collect fees from workers who decline to join.
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OUR VIEW: FOUR-PART JOSEPHINE SAFETY LEVY IS A BAD IDEA — GUEST OPINION (Medford Mail Tribune)
Josephine County commissioners, having tried repeatedly to convince voters to pay for their own public safety services, are trying a new approach. Not only is it unlikely to solve the problem, it could make the situation worse.
Josephine County has the lowest property tax base of any county in the state at 58 cents per $1,000 assessed value. In contrast, Jackson County’s base is just over $2.
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JOSEPHINE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MOVE AHEAD WITH A LA CARTE LEVY APPROACH (Medford Mail Tribune)
Although Josephine County voters have struck down four property tax levies to fund public safety in four years, Commissioner Cherryl Walker believes putting four more on the May ballot might do the trick.
Instead of opting for a single levy request to fund county jail operations, sheriff patrols, district attorneys and the juvenile justice center, the commissioner who’s up for re-election this year wants to attach each component to a different ballot measure.
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LINN COUNTY PLANS CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST STATE (Albany Democrat Herald)
Linn County officials say they’re planning to file a class-action lawsuit against the state of Oregon but are staying mum on the details until a Wednesday morning press conference at the state Capitol in Salem.
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LOCALS WILL RALLY AT CAPITOL (Argus Observer)
-Minimum wage-
Local residents are organizing a trip to Salem to participate in a minimum wage hearing before the Oregon House Business and Labor Committee Thursday _________________________________________
OUTLOOK GOOD (Argus Observer)
-Snowpack off to solid start this winter-
So far, so good. That is the assessment of water managers and specialists as they look at the current snowpack around the region.
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INCLINE IN JOBS DOESN’T MEAN DROP IN PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (Argus Observer)
Malheur County’s unemployment rate is lower than it has been for some time, having gained 340 jobs over the last year, but that has not necessarily reduced the need for public assistance.
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A FIRST-PERSON LOOK AT THE INSIDE OF A MEDIUM-SECURITY PRISON (Argus Observer)
The morning before I was scheduled to shadow a correctional officer at the Snake River Correctional Institution, the thing I was most worried about was what to wear. I have been inside the prison before and know that one rule is visitors cant wear blue denim.
When I arrived at the medium security facility entrance, I turned over my electronics and swapped my drivers license for a red visitor badge. I was there to shadow Brenda Brooks, a housing unit support officer.
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BENTZ APPOINTED TO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (Argus Observer)
State Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario, has been appointed, along with three other state House members to the Legislative Interim Committee on Department of Energy Oversight.
They join four state senators on the joint committee.
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A MESSAGE FOR SALEM (Argus Observer)
-Business leaders speak out against wage hikes-
A town hall meeting Wednesday in Ontario was held not to generate opposition to proposed minimum wage raise but to send a message to Salem.
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ACTIVISTS OVERREACHED BUT SO DID FEDS — GUEST OPINION (Argus Observer)
As the FBI seeks to end the citizen takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, its worth reflecting on what is behind the rising civil disobedience in the American West. The armed occupation of federal buildings is inexcusable, but so are federal land-management abuses and prosecutorial overreach.
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TIME FOR REAL DISCUSSION ON LAND MANAGEMENT — OPINION (Argus Observer)
We have watched with interest as the story of the armed group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge developed this week.
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AT TRESTLE BAY, BETTER PASSAGE FOR FISH (Daily Astorian)
-Restoration project will remove jetty stones-
A floating barge and crane are set up in a bay near the South Jetty to remove piles of jetty stones that will open passages for fish habitat.
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HIGHWAY BECOMES A MEMORIAL TO VETERANS OF RECENT WARS (Daily Astorian)
-The latest sign is unveiled at Camp Rilea.-
When Oregon House Bill 2036 became law last spring, U.S. Highway 101 became a 338-mile-long memorial to the veterans who served in the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.
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REBIRTH, PART TWO (Baker City Herald)
-A quarter century after reforesting the area burned by the Dooley Mountain fire, the Forest Service faces the same task-
The ponderosa pines that will transform the landscape left by the Cornet/Windy Ridge fire from black to green will start their life in a Medford nursery.
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WHICH PEOPLE ARE REFUGE OCCUPIERS HELPING? — OPINION (Baker City Herald)
I treasure my right to visit public lands.
Being a member of the public and all, I consider it a sacred thing that even within my own modestly sized county there exist hundreds of thousands of acres where I can go to have a picnic or take a nap beneath a ponderosa pine or shoot at a jackrabbit.
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HARNEY COUNTY COMPROMISE — OPINION (Baker City Herald)
The illegal occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which has put Harney County in the harsh spotlight of the international media, a position the countys residents neither wanted nor deserve, could end not just peacefully, but positively.
But this ideal outcome requires compromise.
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GROUP SEARCHING FOR FIX TO ODFW MONEY WOES (Bend Bulletin)
-One potential target for new cash: bird watchers and wildlife viewers-
A group of 20 lawmakers and experts picked by top politicians and the governor has set out to find a more reliable way to fund the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife because, despite higher license fees, revenue from hunters and anglers has failed to keep the agency afloat.
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PROTESTERS RIP OUT FENCE AT REFUGE (Bend Bulletin)
-Ramping up protest, men go through government files, use federal equipment-
The armed men who have occupied a federal wildlife refuge escalated their defiance of the federal government Monday, using hands and a Wildcat excavator stolen from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to rip apart a barbed-wire fence erected by the government at a far end of the vast refuge.
The fence, the men said, had kept a rancher from grazing cattle on publicly owned land.
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KEEPING CLIMBERS SAFE (Bend Bulletin)
-Veteran rock climber volunteers to replace aging bolts at Smith Rock State Park-
At first glance, Ian Caldwell might appear to be just another rock climber ascending a route at Oregon’s most popular climbing spot on a bright, crisp winter day.
But a closer look reveals that Caldwell is doing much more than simply climbing he is keeping the route safe for climbers for perhaps hundreds of years to come.
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CROOK COUNTY GETS TENTATIVE BIKEWAY APPROVAL (Bend Bulletin)
-Work still needed before bikes ride Crooked River Scenic Bikeway-
Oregon’s 11-member Scenic Bikeway Advisory Committee granted tentative approval for a 19-mile stretch of the Crooked River Highway to become part of Oregons Scenic Bikeways program.
The Crooked River Scenic Bikeway begins in Prineville and extends south along state Highway 27 until it reaches the Prineville Reservoir State Park, according to Oregon Parks and Recreation Department maps.
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EDITORIAL: WISHFUL THINKING ISN’T WORKING AT MALHEUR REFUGE — OPINION (Bend Bulletin) http://www.bendbulletin.com/opinion/3902602-151/editorial-wishful-thinking-isnt-working-at-malheur-refuge#
The occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge have begun destroying public property. They used a stolen excavator to rip out a barbed wire fence erected by the government to separate the refuge from nearby ranchland.
Why isn’t law enforcement taking action?
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GROUPS STILL SPLIT ON OREGON CAMPAIGN FINANCE LIMITS (Bend Bulletin)
-Task force supports sending ballot measure to voters-
A task force assembled to propose ways to rein in money in Oregon elections has recommended getting rid of the only contribution limits on Oregon’s books.
The group narrowly agreed Tuesday it would support a bill that, if passed by the Legislature, would ask voters to amend the Oregon Constitution to allow contribution limits in the future. Oregon has had limits in place since 2006 that arent in effect until the constitution is changed.
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OCCUPIERS PLAN MEETING TO DISCUSS REFUGE EXIT PLAN (Bend Bulletin)
The armed activists occupying a national wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon said Tuesday they plan to hold a community meeting this week to explain themselves and inform residents when they will leave.
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COLUMN: A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO PUBLIC PENSION WOES — GUEST OPINION (Bend Bulletin)
When it comes to severe fiscal difficulties spurred by public pension mismanagement, Illinois and New Jersey receive the most attention. These two states, however, are hardly alone:
According to an authoritative study by professors Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua Rauh published in the Journal of Finance, pensions in 21 states were funded below 40 percent in 2009. Indeed, according to this conservative estimate, the aggregate funding gap faced by states amounted to $2.5 trillion.
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DALLAS HEARD, OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS, VISIT ARMED GROUP IN HARNEY COUNTY (Douglas County News-Review)
Rep. Dallas Heard, R-Winston, said this morning he was on a fact-finding mission Saturday when he visited the armed militia group that has seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County. The group is protesting federal land policies and the jailing of a pair of ranchers imprisoned for setting fires on federal land.
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GUEST COLUMN: HOW IMPORTANT IS THE MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE? — GUEST OPINION (Douglas County News-Review)
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt to protect the vast populations of waterbirds that were being decimated by wanton killing by the plume trade. The 188,000- acre refuge represents some of the most important bird habitat on the Pacific Flyway. It is one of the crown jewels of the National Wildlife Refuge System and belongs to all Americans.
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WATER WORRIES (Herald and News)
-Irrigators seek solutions to tough water year-
Drought. Water shortages. Litigation.
Those are just three of the issues plaguing Klamath Project irrigators and their pocketbooks, according to Klamath Irrigation District Manager Mark Stuntebeck.
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WATER OUTLOOK: STILL NEED THE MOISTURE (Herald and News)
-East side of Klamath Project in dire need of snowpack-
Its likely the two irrigation districts that make up the Klamath Projects East Side will only receive irrigation deliveries in 2016 if their supply reservoirs receive average or above average precipitation through the spring.
We definitely need some snowpack on the East Side, desperately, said Bureau of Reclamation Hydrologist Jason Cameron.
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WALDEN: CAN’T CONDONE ACTIONS OF ARMED PROTESTERS — GUEST OPINION (Herald and News)
In recent weeks, the people of Harney County have become no stranger to national headlines.
On Jan. 3, a group of armed protesters overtook a federal facility in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. And on Jan. 5, Dwight and Steve Hammond, father and son ranchers from Harney County who were convicted of arson for setting a backfire that burned 139 acres of federal land, reported to prison to serve the remainder of a mandatory five-year sentence.
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GO HOME: STATE’S MESSAGE CLEAR ON REFUGE SEIZURE — OPINION (Herald and News)
Perhaps the first reaction of a lot of people about the illegal takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters in southeastern Oregon is that authorities should let the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom sit in the cold until they go home.
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LET MARKETS HELP DEAL WITH WEST’S WILDFIRES — GUEST OPINION (Herald and News)
There are few things Democrats and Republicans in Washington can agree upon. One is that the western wildfire problem has gotten out of control.
From the overwhelming firefighting costs to the amount of acres at high fire risk due to challenges of drought, insects and fuels build-up, the issue has ballooned like the actual fires themselves. Solutions, however, have been hard to find.
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PACIFIC GALES AGAIN GOES BEFORE LUBA (The World)
The developers hoping to build the Pacific Gales Golf Course appear before the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals for the third time Thursday, hoping to get through one more land-use hurdle in their project north of Port Orford.
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OUR VIEW: WE’RE BETTER OFF THAN IT SOMETIMES APPEARS — OPINION (The World)
-Occasional setbacks won’t hold back South Coast’s overall economic recovery-
News of the closure of the Macy’s store in North Bend last week is obviously not good. Another 50 or so jobs lost to the local economy and more abandoned retail space.
But that’s no reason to allow ourselves to get swallowed up in a pity party about our local economy. Lets resist the easy path of self-loathing and bring some common-sense perspective into the discussion.
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OREGON AG ROSENBLUM PRESSES CDC IN FIGHT AGAINST PAINKILLER ABUSE (Oregon Business Journal)
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is once again taking steps to combat Oregon’s opioid epidemic.
Rosenblum wrote a letter urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to finalize opioid prescribing guidelines as soon as possible.
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RANCHER REBELLION AT THE MALHEUR REFUGE IS NOTHING NEW. JUST ASK NANCY FERGUSON (Willamette Week)
In 1980, bird-watching visitors to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge complained that the cows were destroying critical wildlife habitat. So Nancy and Denzel Ferguson, the husband-and-wife naturalist team who lived just down the road from the sanctuary headquarters, started a letter-writing campaign to draw attention to grazing abuses.
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NEW STATE EMAILS SHOW OFFICIALS IGNORED FOSTER-CARE ABUSES FOR MORE THAN A DECADE (Willamette Week)
New documents show that Instead of protecting kids, state employees ignored repeated fed flags and propped up a troubled foster care provider.
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STATE RELEASES INVESTIGATION LOG FOR TROUBLED FOSTER CARE PROVIDER GIVE US THIS DAY (Willamette Week)
The Oregon Department of Human Services has finally released documents detailing more than a decade of complaints and allegations involving the now-defunct Portland foster care provider Give Us This Day.
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FERVOR IN OREGON COMPOUND AND FEAR OUTSIDE IT (New York Times)
Deep inside the federal wildlife compound where armed citizens have been garrisoned for more than a week, 9-year-old Zoey Justus was preparing a snack platter for the occupiers fruit, cheese, Ritz crackers and her parents were explaining why they had brought her to an armed insurrection.
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LYNNE SAXTON REVEALS HER TOP 10 LIST (The Lund Report)
The director of the Oregon Health Authority mentioned the One Eligibility system, controlling pharmacy costs, modernizing public health and regulating marijuana when she spoke at the Health Policy Board last week.
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