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"A moderate by definition is one of three things; somebody who sits around and waits for a majority to form and then joins it, a conservative who is pro-choice, or a liberal."
-- Rush Limbaugh, June 5, 2001
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- Jason Atkinson Gaining Still More National Attention.
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Oregonian Slams GOP Primary Candidates On Land Use Promises. Claim they are all just 'pandering.' [Nothing the Mannix and Atkinson have said is inconsistent with views they have always expressed in the past on this issue. Members of the Oregonians in Action no doubt know this even if the Oregonian does not.]
- The Legislative Gifts that Keep On Giving. If state lawmakers won't give up the corrosive influence of lobbyists' perks, they should... (Oregonian editorial).
- Oregonian Motion In Fed Court Asks for Files In Muslim Eavesdropping Case. Suit alleges the nation's spy agency illegally intercepted international phone conversations and e-mail between the co-director of an Islamic 'charity' and his two lawyers. [Obviously the gov't didn't think they were ONLY a charity or they wouldn't have been eavesdropping.] "If the government is committing crimes against its citizens, the public is entitled to know the nature of the crimes," The Oregonian's lawyer, Charles Hinkle, wrote in a court filing. [And if the Oregonian is thwarting the efforts of our gov't to do its job in protecting Americans from potential terrorists, the public is entitled to know that also. Not everyone is assuming an absence of hostile motives on the part of the Oregonian.]
- Portland vs. PGE. City's rate-making bid would backfire. (Guest columnist, Ron Eachus, OR Public Utilities Commission from 1987 to 2001. Now international energy consultant on the development of regulatory agencies.
- Portland Schools: We've Been Here Before. Consolidation, Phillips and the board hope, will do a lot more than save money. They want to show taxpayers, business leaders and the state Legislature -- all of whom the district needs as partners in solving long-term funding -- that they're serious about squeezing expenses.
- Vignettes of Portland Schools: Last Spring, Portland Public Schools Closed Whitaker Middle School and Applegate, Edwards, Kenton and Smith Elementaries. Here's how the closures look through the eyes of three parents.
- The Savings from School Closures: A Numbers Game. Neighborhood Schools Alliance, an anti-closure group accuses the school district of overstating the savings from five school closures last year by not counting families who leave.
- Get Those Nasty Treecutters. You'll be paid a reward for reporting them.
- Oregonian Reports Kulongoski Won't Have Labor's Help This Time. [The Oregon Conservative believes remaining support for Kulongoski is being underestimated.]
- Hillsboro Moves Toward School Bond.
- Clackamas County: Measure 37 Hearings Begin Wednesday, April 12.
- Salem-Keizer: State Pulls Insurer's License.
- Portland: Political Maneuvers Hover Above Tram.
- Ex-Gov. Roberts First to Have Capitol Mall Building Named for Her.
- Portland: Fixing I-5 Bridge Bottleneck Begins with Narrowing Ideas.
- Faculty at WOU Still Warning They May Strike April 5.
- Salem-Keizer District Board Will Host Second Candidate for Top Superintendent Job.
- Candidate: Dave Mowry
- Candidate: Domonic Biggi
- Candidate: Mark Kirchmeier
- Candidate: Chip Shields.
- Candidate: Jackie Dingfelder.
- Candidate: Mike Kocher.
- Candidate: Gordon Hillesland.
- Candidate: Jeff Merkley.
- Chairwoman of Tri-Met Committee On Accessible Transportations for the Disabled "When I applied to teach, they denied me because of my disability. I had no rights at the time. It was in 1970. I got into affirmative action right away, and liked it so well I never went back to teaching"
- Oregon Has Good Air. Accounts saying otherwise are overblown. [So maybe we don't need the expensive, pesky car-emission standards of CA?]"There's so much variability in the data that goes into the EPA models from the states that it's difficult to make comparisons. The rankings aren't very meaningful." [Then why bother reporting this? Dull news day.]
- Gresham Not Added to Payday Lawsuit.
- Portland: High Schools May Also Land On Closure List.
- Clackamas County Seeks U.S. Flood Aid.
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- Kirkuk, Iraq: Traitor Doctor Murdered Dozens of Wounded Soldiers With Lethal Injection.
- Pakistan Says 16 Pakistanis, Killed By Afghan Security Forces, Were Innocent.
- Member of British al-Qa'ida Cell Tried to Buy Dirty Bomb from Russians.
- Israel Kills Palestinian Militant. On high alerts for suicide bombers during next week's elections.
- Britain: Gov't To Sell Off Part of 6.5-B Stake in Nuclear Power Firm. Privitizing expected to raise billions.
- France Raises Marriage Age Limit. Hoping it will combat domestic violence.
- Canada: "Whole New ThingExplores Young Boy's Crush On Gay Male Teacher." "It was the combination of the queasy, inappropriate potential with the, I guess you could say, wholesome aspect of first love," said Buchbinder, who teaches film at Toronto's York University....MacIvor's character lives a lonely life in the small community, seeking out anonymous sex in a local washroom." [Teen actor has a face like Harry Potter. Accidental?]
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N. Korean Defector Says Disabled Newborns Are Killed.
- HAMAS MAKES STATEMENTS TO WESTERN PRESS, DENIES THEM IN ARABIC.
- The Jihad of the Israeli Left.
- NETANYAHU: A Vote for Shas or Lieberman Is a Vote for the Left.
- Bankruptcy Court Judge: Doyles Can't Cancel State Elections Fines Via Bankruptcy.
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Don't Like Illegal Immigrants Being Able to Vote for Your Legislators? Well, then you just hate Mexicans according to this know-nothing guest columnist on Blue OR. That includes talk-show host Victorial Taft and all those trying to protect America's sovereignty from the hate-America crowd (of which this uninformed young squirt sounds like a proud member). Victoria Responds on Her Blog.
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Wyden Tells Business Group Filling Up Gas Tank Helps Fuel Terrorism. Wyden asked business leaders to join the partnership between him, Sen. Gordon Smith and Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who spoke to the group on Monday. Their plan calls for adopting standards for biodiesel and ethanol by the year.
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Blue Oregon Wants to Know When the Oregonian Will Hold Sen. Smith Accountable for... ...saying one thing and doing another. [Well, probably no sooner than the Republican Party or Lars Larson (who has said he loves him like a brother) will. Blue OR will turn even bluer if he keeps holding his breathe waiting for Smith to show any consistency. Smith is for Smith and he's a bargainer. Either Smith or the Bush Administration may have come up with the one thing that would truly encourage Smith to change his mind on ANWR; nominating Smith's brother for the Ninth Circuit Court. (See yesterday's OR Conservative news archive.)]
- Walden, Blumenauer Proposal Would Add 40% to Wilderness. [That's what we need more of in the West, more federal land. Walden has been spending too much time with far-left-wacko Blumenauer.] Oregon Reps. Peter DeFazio and Darlene Hooley have signed on as co-sponsors. Walden said he hopes the House will pass the bill by Memorial Day and send it to the Senate, where a proposal to create more than twice this amount of wilderness died last session. Walden said the amount of wilderness in his proposal is far more than the combined total covered by three wilderness bills his committee has seen in three years. "So this is a bit of heavy lifting, especially in my party," he said, "but is viable and passable." [This is what happens when a Republican feels guaranteed he will will without a challenge from a better Republican. They lose touch with their constituents and let their friendships with fellow congressman rule their heads instead. It is time for Walden to go.] Oregon's Congressional Hikers Present 'Basalt-Solid' Plan for Mt. Hood Wilderness. Walden, Blumenauer to submit long-range plan to their peers.
- Three Liberal OR Reps. Hold Forums On Medicare D. To be on Monday, March 27th.
- Mannix Earns Applause for 'Light Remark" to Oregonians In Action. Emphasizes intent to reform Oregon's land-use-planning program.
- Former Employee of OR Dept. of Justice In Lawsuit With RIAA. wrote US senator Ron Wyden and Congressman David Wu, and state senator Gordon Smith. "They each responded with a letter that appeared generic in reply. They all told me that, as congress people, they couldn’t get involved in someone being sued in a lawsuit. I could tell by the letters that they didn’t even understand what I was talking about."
- State Goes After Time, Inc. Over Automatic Renewals.
- Salem: County Considers Plan to Fine Landowners for Blocked Drains.
- Gov. Visits Bend, Talks Up 'Green Energy' Efforts. Unveils tax credits, loan fund at sustainable energy summit.
- Green Activist Launches Gubernatorial Bid.
- Payday Loan Companies File Suit Over Ordinance.
- PGE Paying Millions to Enron. Covering bankruptcy debt offsets any tax obligation.
- Salem: District to Revise Its Bilingual Programs.
- Wyden Secured OR School Safety Hotline Shutting Down.
- Portland: Medford Man Dies After Taser Stun Gun Shots.
- Bush Picks Sen. Jackie Winters for Air Force Board.
- Tram Fee Cap Complicates Cash Hunt.
- East Portland: Split $$ Among All Schools, Leaders Say.
- Washington County: Cornelius Replaces Water Fee with Taxes, Fees.
- Supreme Court Declines to Hear Obscenity Case.
- Forest Grove: District Files Complaint about Teacher. Police say no crime committed, but school says ethics violation.
- Prosecutors Want DeLay Charges Reinstated.
- GOP Trails Dems In Senate Fundraising.
- Bill Gates Admits Company Too Slow To Release Updates Version of Internet Explorer Browser.
- NC: State Judge Says State Lottery Is Legal. Will begin 3/30.
- Developers All Wet In Supreme Court Case. Private property owners take note: Does the Fed gov't , under the Clean Water Act, have the right to protect small wetlands that aren't directly connected to a navigable waterway?
- U.S. Supreme Court Limits Class-Action Suits.
- NH: Constitutional Bid to Ban Same-Sex Marriage Fails in House. New Hampshire law already prohibits gay marriage. The constitutional amendment was in reaction to the MA acceptance of same-sex marriage and those who did not want NH to have to accept those marriages.
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IL Governor's Race: Gay-Pride Champion Topinka Wins GOP Primary, Blagojevich Narrowly Retains Dem Spot Despite Corruption Allegations. With 10,303 of 11,700 precincts counted in unofficial returns in the Republican primary, Topinka had 269,565 votes, or 38 percent, to 225,395 votes, or 32 percent, for the conservative Oberweis. Amputee Army vet wins Dem primary for Congressional seat held by Henry Hyde.
- CT: Legislature Fails to Pass Bill Forcing Catholic Hospitals to Offer Contraceptive Pill to Rape Victims. May resurrect bill when elections over.
- CT Democrat Primary: DeStefano vs. Malloy Competing to Prove They Are the Real Democrat. They aim to unseat Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, whose approval ratings have consistently ranked among the highest in the nation.
- Senator John McCain's PAC Man Draws Fire. The DNC took aim Tues. for hiring a GOP operative linked to the criminal case against Delay. Terry Nelson was also political director for the Bush-Cheney re-election.
- St. Paul, MN: Effects of Amendment Debated as Gay-Marriage Foes Rally In Favor of Constitutional Amendment.
- GA: Ralph Reed Campaign for Lt. Gov. Unaffected By So-called Scandals. If Reed wins as Lt. Gov. he is expected to then go for the Governor's spot. Purdue is limited to two terms. [Classic liberal media spin that isn't working.]
- Armey Goes On the Stump for Senate Hopeful Bryant.
- Iowa: Potential Presidential Candidate George Allen is On the Move at Home & Nationally.
- MI: Amway Director, Dick DeVos Tells Michigan Republicans He's the Leader the State Needs. His father founded Amway, now Alticor Inc.
- Montana: GOP Sen. Burns Faces Primary Challenge from Bob Keenan. Opponents claim Burns is tied to lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The state GOP issued a statement supporting Burns.
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Mississippi Democrats Suing to Do Away With Open Primaries. No only can opposite parties vote across party lines in primaries no IDs ARE REQUIRED TO VOTE. Republicans get to pick the weakest Democratic link. Dems say it's time to end this bad game. [They are right. Integrity would have dictated they care before they were the ones with so much to lose.]
- CO Congressional Race: Retiring Congressman Endorses Conservative Jeff Crank. Crank faces four other Republicans in the primary.
- Seditionist Cardinal Mahoney Defies the Pope Over Immigration Laws. Opinion
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- Prosecutor Using Mental Defense, Afghan Convert May Be Unfit for Trial.
- Spain: Basque Separatists Announce Permanent Cease-Fire. If true would end a decades-long campaign of violence.
- UK: House of Lords Sides with School On Muslim Dress Appeal.
- UK: House of Lords Passes Law Banning Glorification of Terrorism.
- N. Ireland: Unionist Anger Over Blair Remarks. Over reference made to "Protestant extremists."
- Wales, UK: 'High Violence' Against Health Care Workers.
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Libya: "We Do Not Allow Occupiers Into Our Country." "Israel does not exist as a country, it is Palestine. We don't allow occupiers into our country," the official said. "Now I order you all to leave Libya."
- Britain: Environmental Wacko Snubs Blair.
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Ecuador: State of Emergency Declared As Gov't Clamps Down On Protests Against Free Trade Talks with the U.S.
- PA Parliament to Vote Early On Hamas Cabinet.
- Philippines: Former Pres. Estrada Denies Corruption Charge at Trial.
- Afghan Troops Kill 15 Suspected Taliban.
- EU Issues 'Unsafe' Airlines Ban. Has issued a blacklist banning 92 airlines from operating in the region, saying they fail to meet international standards.
- Canada: Liberal Parliament Members Threaten to Bring Down Harper Minority Gov't If He Doesn't Go Their Way. Particularly on the Tory promise to provide a child-care subsidy to parents -- in the next two weeks.
- Afghan Foreign Minister Loses Job In Karzai's First Reshuffle Since Parliamentary Elections.
- Al Qa'ida In Israel Trained to Hit Economic Targets.
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Unified Right-Wing Bloc In Danger. The Shas & Yisrael Beiteinu parties refuse to rule out joining a Dadima Gov't, causing consternation in the Likud.
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Drop In Support for Kadmima Signals Party Infighting Ahead. The success of Kadima, as a new party with Knesset candidates culled from different backgrounds (moderate gibberish to cover up true liberal agenda) depends upon its receiving 40+ seats. If not, some predict, its lack of glue will be its undoing.
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Netanyahu Blasts Olmert's Plan for Withdrawal.
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Mass Media Bias Against Netanyahu. Blatantly shows favoritism toward Kadima Party.
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Israel: Kadima Gets 36 Seats; Labor, Likud Sink. Follows constant fawning of Kadima by liberal media around the world, including the U.S. papers.
- Israel: Court Moves Fence In Jerusalem to Prevent Neighborhood's Isolation.
- Oregon's Bi-Sexual Kate Brown Wants a Special Legislative Session. Medford News.com puts forth her proposals in a favorable light.
- Kulongoski Reverses Course, Says Will Debate Opponents. (Statesman J)
- Kulongoski Agrees to Two Debates for May Primary. (Oregonian)
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Statesman Journal Joins Oregonian In Criticizing State Pullout of Issuing Mexican IDs. Calling Kulongoski 'flip-flopper.' [No matter to these newspapers that what the state was doing was ILLEGAL.]
- Unions' Defections Put Heat On Gov. K.
- KEVIN MANNIX Rips Into Bad Land Use. GOP candidates want the state zoning agency cut. Mannix says he would dramatically weaken what he calls the "dictatorship" of Oregon's land use planning program when addressing Oregonians In Action, a property-rights group.
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Contractor Challenges Peter Courtney for Senate Seat. Jared Thatcher, nephew of Rep. Kim Thatcher is the lone Republican against Courtney.
- Despite Unprecedented Effort To Reach Returning Vets & Their Families, Rep. Hooley Says It's Not Enough. Bush requested an $80.6-B budget for vets in 2007, 12.2% boost over last year's record amount. [Hooley hooey, Democrats more concerned with getting you more, more, more...]
- IMMIGRATION REFORM RALLY PLANNED FRIDAY ON STEPS AT CAPITOL.
- Measure 37 Claims Pick Up Speed.
- Salem: City Delays Action On Downtown Parking.
- New Charter School Plans to Be Business-Oriented.
- Organ Registry Planned for OR.
- Salem-Keizer Candidate, Barbara McGann Tours S-K Schools.
- Portland: School Closures Have an Upside.
- Salem: Weyerhaeuser Gives Funds to Area Schools, Scouts.
- Gresham: Neighbors Say No to Proposed Wal-Mart.
- Beaverton: Another 'Magnet' School Courting Older Kids. Schools Focus is on international diversity, aims to teach cultural understanding by emphasizing foreign languages, humanities and computer technology. Chinese, Japanese and Spanish language instruction will be offered.
- Beaverton: Chalkboard Project Says There Are 13 Ways to Improve Schools.
- Seabirds Continue to Wash Up on OR Coast. Same kind of birds OK in WA & CA.
- Wounded Lives. After three years of war, many who served in Iraq are returning home to face a different kind of battle. And the casualties this time are American families.
- 18 OR Counties Eligible for Fed Aid Due to Rain.
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The GOP's Dying Breed. Seattle Times Editorial laments the demise of liberal Republicans. [Columnist actually admits that moderate Republicans are really liberals! Amazing. Liberals usually lie about this. Oh woe. They thought they'd beaten out the Barry Goldwater conservatives way back when. Bob Packwood's crowd should be nervous.]
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Hispanic-Owned Businesses Grew at Three Times National Rate... ...for all companies from 1997 to 2002 according to the Census Bureau report. The businesses are kept alive due to an exploding Hispanic population.
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Washington Democrats Favor Law Outlawing Discrimination Against Transgenders. King County vs. Tim Eyman.
- Alternative Energy Attracting More Investors. [In other words the market place will take care of the use of alternative energy. Another example gov't subsidies not needed.]
- Treating Moms' Depression May Help Kids. [Naw, who would have guessed.]
- Tech Stocks Lead Down, Nasdaq Higher.
- MD: Teachers Spurn Talent Rivals. Teachers' Union won't give up monopoly on teaching kids. Resisting plan by Pres. Bush to build an "adjunct teacher corps" of 30,000 experienced scientists and mathematicians, like those at Aberdeen, to assist in the nation's schools. Union leaders insist higher teacher pay is more important that outside experts to enhancing education.
- Gore Claims He Isn't Running for Pres. But, isn't exactly ruling it out either.
- District Sued After Snubbing Bible Club.
- Anti-War Singer, Santana, Speaks Out Against Bush & War. "There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war," he said. "As Jimmi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets."
- NY: Classes Begin to 5-Year-Old Students On Teaching AIDS Despite Objections.
- Experts Rip 'Sesame' TV Aimed at Tiniest Tots.
- Socialism Makes People Worse.
- Bush Challenges Democrats On Surveillance Program.
- "Dump Snoozeburg" from Supreme Court. Joseph Farah.
- Anti-War Concert Benefits Liberal Groups.
- U.S. Eyes Privatizing Cargo Security Work.
- States Allow Deadly Self-Defense. Other legislatures consider bills on fighting back against attackers.
- Poll: Hillary Clobbered in NJ.
- Student Group Sues TX School District.
- CO: 42 Illegals Involved In 4-Van Crash.
- CO: Border Control Bill May Be Revived.
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- Senatorial Privilege vs. Quality Judges. PRESIDENT BUSH RECENTLY NOMINATED MILAN D. Smith Jr. to fill a longstanding vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit, which covers nine western states, is a notorious bastion of liberal judicial lawlessness. So the White House should be looking to fill the vacancy with an outstanding jurist who is learned in questions of federal constitutional and statutory law and who is prepared to dedicate two decades or more to the arduous task of helping to transform that court. Unfortunately, Smith hardly fits the bill. A Los Angeles-area attorney, Smith, 64, has specialized for nearly four decades in real estate transactions--a specialty that has little bearing on the questions that occupy federal courts. ...But what the low caliber of these nominees helps demonstrate is the extraordinary and regrettable influence senators exercise over federal judgeships in their home states. For the key facts driving Smith's candidacy are that Barbara Boxer, the ultraliberal senator from California, recommended his nomination and that Smith is the brother of Oregon's Republican senator Gordon Smith. His brother and Boxer, Milan Smith says, "are very good friends." As for Bunning, the district judgeship that he now occupies is in Kentucky, the home state of Republican senator Jim Bunning, who, not coincidentally, is his father.
- A Dim-Light-bulb-Quote from Senator Gordon Smith Staff Member Eldon Boes. "...Population expansion of species often is followed by intense competition within that species. Will that be true for humans? How will it play out? Has that begun?...[What kind of advice does a guy who runs off at the mouth with such pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-academia environmental-wacko gibberish give Sen. Smith on such things as drilling in ANWR?]
- Polygamy: Here They Come, Ready or Not. Gary Randall, Oregon's Faith & Freedom Network.
- Portland: Thousands Join Anti-War Protest.
- Oregonian Spin On Saturday's War Protests. "The driver of public opinion is the change in public opinion," Hibbitts said. [SayWA? -- A little Washingtonian lingo there which is slightly smarter than what Hibbitts said. Is this any example of how his poll questions are worded?] "Absent of really good news out of Iraq, it's going to be very, very difficult for Bush to recapture support on this issue." [Could it be that Mr. Hibbitts, like all the major media, is simply ignoring any good news out of Iraq? The media could be reporting it, but they won't. Speaking of what 'drives' public opinion... Reporter Mark Larabee has quoted just about every passe, run-of-the-mill communist or socialist anti-war group for this news piece.
- Eugene Anti-War Protest in Eugene. Vonski reports and has many photographs of the communists among us.
- Large Union Endorses Hill for Gov.
- Oregonian Upset With Kulongoski Pulling State Involvement from Issuing Mexican IDs.
- Jeff Kropf: Ban All State Services for Illegal Immigrants.
- Police Backers Discuss Goals. Number of patrol troopers has been cut in half since '80.
- State Asks Households to Keep Diaries of Pesticide Use.
- WOU Sociology Prof Sounds Off.
- Report Indicates Lobbyists Spread the Wealth with Legislators.
- Meaty Bottleneck: Oregon's Small Farmers Struggle to Wrangle Any Market Growth. State Rep. Jeff Kropf tried to legislate some changes during the 2003 session, with two bills that would have helped processors and farmers. One declared a state of emergency for...
- Drop In Caseloads Cuts DHS Shortfall.
- Incumbent Sumner Seeks to Keep GOP from Leaning too Far to the Left.
- Pendleton: Soldiers Greeted as "First Rate.'
- Gov. Kulongoski Sees Universal Health Care as the Answer.
- Pres. of Roseburg Forest Products Speaks Out On 'Restoring Health Forests.'
- Another No-Show for Kulongoski. Saturday debate at Portland City Club forum gave ammo to all candidates to bash the gov.
- Oregonian's Peter Ames Carlin On TV Military Series. Hoo-ah! "The Unit" Nails the Esprit of Elite Soldiers. He says it is neither pro-war or anti-war.
- Former Salesman Seeks House District 18 Seat.
- OR DHS HQ Building to Be Renames In Honor of Former Gov. Barbara Roberts.
- New Voting Machines for Disabled Hit Delay.
- Participation In Renewable Energy Sales, Green Power Programs Lifts PGE's Profile.
- Biotech Leader, Genentech, Selects Hillsboro for Expansion. Should bring hundreds of jobs.
- Rep. David Wu Was Co-Sponsor of H.Res. 635 to Censure President Bush. All total 32 congressman signed on to Feingold bill. Senators Boxer and Harkins were also on board.
- Eugene: Whole Foods Sparks Other Development Ideas and Debates Between Candidates On Bidding Practices. Rich Cunningham vs. incumbent Jennifer Solomon.
- Congressman Walden to Visit Southern OR March 22-23.
- Aborted Babies Were Doomed Anyway?
- Private Firms Replace Public Companies as Timber Owners. Corvallis Gazette-Times
- Another State Education Bureaucrat Unnecessary. Opinion, Bend Bulletin.
- May Ballot Will Put Us To the Test. Oregonian columnist Jerry Boone.
- Pacific Green Party Member On Oregon's Electoral System.
- Western OR President Tells Campus: "We're Broke.'
- Wyden Proposes Net Neutrality Bill To Protect Internet from Extra Charges.
- Say WA? Washington's New Tourism Slogan Draws Some Flak. Answer the Seattle Times survey: What do you say about "Say WA"?
- The SayWa Moment.
- Same-Sex Ruling Expected In Washington.
- Western Union New Force In Migrant Debate. Its parent firm Creates a $10-M fund to promote immigration reform.
- GOP Struggles to Define Its Message for 2006 Elections. Main bones of contention: Illegal immigration, abandonment of conservatism.
- Same Old Moderate Line: Elect a 'Consensus' or Moderate Candidate to Bridge Gap Between The Republican and Conservative Parties. [RINO talk reminiscent of what is being said about Ron Saxton, in OR, by people like Rob Kremer].
- Phoenix Newspaper Asks: Did McCain Finally Get His Stadium Help Payoff? Cardinal, Anheuser-Busch ink sponsorship deal. You Too Can Connect The Straight-Talking Dots... [Also on this news page is a poll asking: Is the massive number of illegal immigrants in Arizona at the root of Arizona's poorly performing schools, high dropout rates, low wages and rising health care costs?
- Illegal Broadcasts Interfering with Airline Pilots In Miami.
- Profs, Liberals Team Up Against 'Academic Bill of Rights'
- MI Gov. to Sign Ultrasound Bill. Requires abortion providers to give pregnant women the option to see ultrasound images of their fetuses. Gov. is a Democrat.
- FBI Agent Testified He Warned Senior Officials 70 Times of 9-11 Plot. Harry Samit was agent who arrested Moussaoui and he's accusing his superiors of 'Criminal negligence" and "careerism."
- Democratic Congressman Sabo Retiring After 46 Years in Politics.
- Best Job Market in 5 Years for College Grads.
- Computer Seized After Student Posts Anti-Bush Song. Secret Service not taking "bullet" reference lightly.
- Absentee Congress: Lawmakers Stay Out of the House.
- Rumsfeld: Leaving Iraq Like Giving Nazis Germany.
- Durbin On Fox News: Dems Want GIs Home ASAP. Sounded supportive of what Feingold said after all.
- Multiple Layers of Contractors Drive Up Cost of Katrina Cleanup.
- Little Rock, Ark.: Supreme Court Rejects Final Whitewater Appeal.
- Bush Pushes for More Drug Testing in Schools.
- Romney, Richardson, Clark Debate Iraq War.
- Group Want to Do Away with Present Electoral System. No more representative system, only popular votes. [Mob rule, exactly what our Founding Fathers did not want].
- 'Twin Bills of Destruction' Threaten Family Values In California Schools.
- AZ Gov's Race: Republican Harris Would Put Guard On Border, Blames AZ Immigration Problems On go. Napolitano's Leadership.
- MI: Anti-Homosexual Group Continues to Demonstrate At Military Heros' Funerals. Website boasts 20,000 protests to date.
- U.S. Supreme Court Justices Debate Admissibility of 911 Call Statements to Operators.
- Supreme Court Won't Heart Grandparents' Rights Case.
- Supreme Court Appears Poised to Make It Far Harder to Prosecute Domestic Violence Cases.... when victims are unwilling or unable to testify in court.
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