Friday, January 27, 2006
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006

• If It Were Up To Ron Wyden, No Judge With a...
• DeFazio Campaigning In Sweet Home Today.   Talking up a Republican's so-call 'culture of corruption.'
• Bankruptcy Judge Likely to Decide What Former Rep. Doyle & Wife Must Pay.
• Governor's Race:   Saxton's Raised the Most $, and He's Spending It to Get Your Attention Early.
• Portland:   Sten Makes Pitch for Business Tax Makeover.
• 'Free' Campus Could Cost Tualatin Millions.
• Boating, Fishing Interests Boycott Business of Voter Who Allocated More Chinook to Commercial Fleet.
• Oregonian to Mayor Potter:   Cut Proposed Tax Increase By Half.
• Springfield:   May Vote Will Decide Jail Funding.
• Eugene Raises Stormwater Fees to Buy Creek Buffers.
• ANTI-ABORTION Display Headed for Corvallis.
• Salem-Keizer:   Citizen Group Delivers Budget Proposal.
• Portland to Follow New HIV Policy.
• Salem:   Area Jobless, Job-Growth Rates Mostly Unchanged.
• Portland Police Shooting Family Claims:   City Tired to Sway Jury.
• Four Schools Locked Down After Report of Vehicle Containing Guns.
• Comcast Raising Rates Again.
• Willamette Valley Christian School Seeks Auction Items.

National News:

• TX-MX Border Standoff Reported.
• Bizarre MX Border Dispute Raises Concerns.
• VA:   Marriage Amendment Salvaged.
• CA:   Minutemen Barred from Parade.
• NSA Accused of Psychologically Abusing Whistleblowers.
• ACLU Sues to Let Muslim Legal Scholar Into U.S.
• CA:   Teachers Refuse to Post Same-Sex Rights Poster.
• Senatorial Dems Claim Fund-Raising Record.
• Alito Debate Begins Today In Full Senate.
• Public Schools Looking at Bible Literacy Class.
• NJ Boy, 17, Wins ACLU Fight to Wear Skirt In School.

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

The President's Iraq National Strategy

International News:

• Russia, Ukraine Talking Mutual Nuclear Deal Instead of Gas Cooperation.
• Putin Proposes Setting Up Intern'l Centers of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Services.
• Gaza City:   Latest Election Incorporates Terrorist Hamas Into Palestinian Gov't.
• SHARON REPLACEMENT, PM OLMERT, SAYS ISRAEL 'HAS TO WITHDRAW FURTHER.'   [Still more!]

• Life Support PR On Weekend 'Minnis Memorial Abortuary."
• Daniel's Report On the Cornelius Protest Against Mexican IDs.
• Charlie Ringo Won't Be Running Again.   Reflections on last five years are; abhorring 'the blind allegiance to party..." [To Ringo ANY allegiance was abhorrent.]
• What Can You Do to Help Commuter Etiquette?   According to Tiffany Lee Brown one thing you can do is turn off Lars Larson.
• FEDERAL CRACKDOWN On Illegals In OR?   By the end of the year, 52 fugitive-hunting teams within U.S. Immigration ...
• New Law Makes It Tougher for Independent Candidates to Get On Ballot.
• Sen. Smith Bill Would Halt Progress of Consumer Electronics & Digital Media Technologies?   Various tech websites say yes, it will.
• Anti-Tax Groups Launch Spending Limit Campaign.
• Kulongoski:   Out of 300 Requests, Five Pardons Given.
• Sen. Smith Ends His Fight Against Suicide Law.
• Other Joins School Plan Debate.   Uniforms & Same-Sex schools subjects of disagreement.
• Salem-Keizer:   Residents Make School-Budget Proposals.
• Multi-Lingual Story Telling at Hillsboro Library.   "You can't just leave them for a year until they've learned English on their own."   Gene Evans, OR Dept. of Edu. Spokesman.
• OR Trail Parents Launch Recall of School Board.
• Portland Could Require PGE to Cut Rates.
• Portland Signs On Three Experts to Scrutinize PGE Practices.
• Senate Honors the Late Sen. Tom Hartung.
• Oregonian Defends Publicizing Study.   Doesn't think refutation of study conclusions needed to be published as well before printing.
• Statesman Journal Columnist Thinks Her Favorite Female Pioneers Should Have National Day of Recognition.
• OR Kerry Defender Now Defending Murtha Military Record.
• Nike CEO Resigns Amid Clashes With Knight.
• OR State Wins $3.6-M Grant to Study Sagebrush Ecosystems.
• Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Giving Outdoor Skills Classes for Women.
• Fish & Wildlife Looking for Input on Duck Zones.
• Port of Newport Commission Plans to Discuss Shipbreaking Site.
• Socialist Freak Gets Big Write-Up In Oregonian.

National News:

• UCLA Students Urged to Expose 'Radical' Professors.
• Several Liberal Lawmakers Continue Anti-Spying Bandwagon On Weekend TV.
• Washington Lawmakers Want Shepherds to Get On-Call Salaries.   SB6434 & HB2724
• Audience Q&A New Feature of Bush Speeches.
• Same-Sex Activists Angry With American Idol's Simon Comments to Effeminate Contestants.
• Six Washington Republicans Fail Their Constituents.
• Halliburton Cited In Iraq Contamination.
• Ford Employees Await Word On Massive Job Cuts.
• TV Show West Wing Cancelled.
• FL:   FED JUDGE STRIKES DOWN DAYTONA BEACH NUDITY LAW.   Says unconstitutional. Also said city failed to prove that adult nightclubs create secondary negative impacts on levels of crimes, etc. Lollipops Gentleman's Club wins lawsuit.
• Demonstrators Mark Roe V. Wade Anniversary.
• FL Republicans Rally Around Katherine Harris.
• Today's McCain Blah-Blah:   Lobbying Reforms Fall Short.
• SUPREME COURT Rejects Blackberry Appeal.
• WHOOPDEEDOO. Bush, Abramoff Together in Photos.
• CA:   Environmentalist Fight Vineyards' Spread.
• CA:   Liberal RINO, McCloskey To Run Against Conservative Pombo.
• Opinion:   Two Justices Who 'Get' Religion.

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

The President's Iraq National Strategy

• Iraq:   Two American Airmen Die In Today's Suicide-Bomber Attack.
• Expulsion of U.S. Envoy Sought In Pakistan Following U.S. Airstrike.
• Oil Prices Rise to $69 Over Supply Fears.
• U.S. Navy Seizes Pirate Ship Off Somalia.

International News:

• BRITAIN:   Mother Loses 'Right to Know' Case.
• TOKYO:   Livedoor CEO Arrested On Fraud Charges.   Internet portal co. at the center of a financial fraud probe that has roiled Tokyo's stock market.
• Bolivia's 1st Indian Pres. Sworn In.
• Turkish Court Drops Charges Against Pamuk.   Novelist had gone on trial for telling a Swiss newspaper that Turkey is unwilling to deal with two of the most painful episodes in recent Turkish history.
• Canadians In Process of Electing New Parliament.
• CANADIAN CONSERVATIVES Lead In Polls On Eve of Vote.   As the margin narrows, however, liberals are hoping for another last-minute upset.
• Israeli Army to Avoid W. Bank Towns During Election.
• Georgia Blames Russia for Gas Blasts.
• Interim Judge Takes Over Saddam Trial Following Resignation of Amin.
• UK Diplomats In Moscow Spying Dispute.
• TAIWAN GOV'T RESHUFFLE:   Outgoing Premier Warns Chen Shuibian Over China Stance.
• KUWAIT In Constitutional Crisis Over Sick Emir.   Two branches of ruling Sabah family pitted against each other.
• Pakistan:   Official Ban On Indian Movies Being Ignored as New Bollywood Movie Being Screened.
• Sinn Fein Activist Threatened At Gunpoint While Playing In Football Competition.
• UK:   Campus Extremism Debate Boycotted By Muslim Group.   Claim Muslims misrepresented.