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 166.0 Two old chums vie in race for governor
SALEM John Kitzhaber and Bill Bradbury go back quite a ways. When Kitzhaber was governor, he appointed Bradbury as Oregon secretary of state when the office became vacant in 1999. They are close friends, so close that Kitzhaber jokingly dubbed the ...
5.7K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 128.0 Hospitals pile up unpaid bills while providing care to uninsured
COOS BAY The Bay Area Hospital emergency room was relatively quiet Monday morning. Patients lay in only a handful of the 14 beds. The ambulance bay and trauma center were empty, allowing some of the physicians and nurses a chance to chat for a mome...
5.2K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 128.0 USFS backs new Wilderness area near Reedsport
GRANTS PASS The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area near Reedsport. It s in an area of the Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil s Staircase. The agency s deputy chief, Joel Haltrop, appeared Th...
2.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 166.0 Chandler future is on shaky ground
COOS BAY ” One of the last tenants to leave The Chandler Hotel before workers boarded up its ground-floor windows was Rita Todd. Owner of Design Renaissance, an interior design business, Todd had operated out of a storefront on Second Str...
5.6K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 128.0 Bradbury s in
PORTLAND ” Former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury is entering the race to be the state s next governor. Bradbury, who served in the Legislature for 14 years, was to formally announce today, according to his spokesman Jeremy Wright....
3.6K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 128.0 DeFazio weighs run for governor
SALEM Congressman Peter DeFazio and former Gov. John Kitzhaber met privately Friday to discuss the 2010 gubernatorial race, but DeFazio wouldn t say whether he will take on Kitzhaber for the Democratic nomination. Last week Kitzhaber announced he w...
2.5K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 846.0 Stop labeling and start thinking
This is in response to a letter by Mr. Daniel Cook (The World, Aug. 29). I resent, by inference, that since I like Rep. DeFazio, I am a socialist. Far from it. I get as mad as anyone at the people in our community who get public assistance, not becau...
1.7K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 192.0 Kitzhaber's return shakes up 2010 race field
SALEM (AP) Former governor John Kitzhaber s pursuit of a record third term puts pressure on fellow Democrats who might want the job, and it could complicate the job of Republican leaders lining up prospective candidates. A former emergency room phy...
4.4K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 166.0 DeFazio opens conference call to constituents
Thanks to all who recently attended one of my 14 town hall meetings. Many of you expressed legitimate concern about what is in the various drafts of health care reform legislation. While it s clear from my town hall meetings most people agree the cu...
1.4K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 514.0 Kitzhaber will run governor - again
SALEM (AP) Democrat John Kitzhaber has announced he will run for a record-setting third term as Oregon governor. Kitzhaber, who left office in 2003, said on Wednesday the state and nation face tremendous challenges and that he believes he can bri...
2.6K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 128.0 Kitzhaber bid for Ore. governor seems likely
SALEM (AP) Speculation is mounting that former Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber will announce this week he s going to run for an unprecedented third term as Oregon s top leader. Kitzhaber is keeping mum for now, but friends believe he s ready to jump...
3.3K - Sep. 1, 2009; scored 192.0 Health debate obscures truth
Getting there early to assure myself a seat at the Obamacare town hall meeting in North Bend on Aug. 14, allowed me to be close to the action. I have much respect for Congressman Peter DeFazio, who has done many good things for his district and the s...
2.5K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 203.0 Springfield man takes on DeFazio
The mayor of Springfield took a tour of the South Coast this week on the heels of Rep. Peter DeFazio s town hall meetings. Sid Leiken is hoping he ll have another chance to follow in the Springfield Democrat s footsteps as the next congressman from...
1.6K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 757.0 Cheers & Jeers
No shenanigans Cheers to the 1,200 South Coast residents who packed Rep. Peter DeFazio s town hall meeting on Thursday. It was an impressive example of civic discussion in a civil atmosphere. No shred of truth Shame on Sarah Palin for keeping alive t...
1.8K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 128.0 DeFazio earns trust on health issue
Congressman Peter DeFazio collected a well-earned round of applause at the end of Thursday s town hall meeting in North Bend. In his eighth such meeting in just two days, the 4th District Democrat patiently fielded questions that were sometimes insig...
2.0K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 231.0 Crowd jams health care meeting
NORTH BEND - Rep. Peter DeFazio didn t have to fight with hecklers or shout down demonstrators at his last town hall meeting Thursday. The noise he had to contend with most was applause. The more than 1,200 people who crammed into the North Bend Comm...
4.4K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 287.0 CB native gets Bronze Star - 40 years later
NORTH BEND It s been over 40 years, but it is still very clear what happened that day, Michael Harris said. When you re in situations like that it feels like everything is in slow motion. I just reacted. Now, four decades later, the 61-year-old ...
2.6K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 589.0 CB man arrested in police car theft
North Bend police officers have nabbed a Coos Bay man who they believe stole one of their patrol cars, Tasers and other items Wednesday night from the North Bend Police Department. At about 6 p.m. Thursday, officers received a tip that someone had tr...
2.9K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 128.0 DeFazio talks health care at heated town hall meeting
GRANTS PASS U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio ran into a buzzsaw of fear and misinformation about federal health care reform proposals Wednesday on his first day of town hall meetings during the Congressional recess. At a stop in Grants Pass, the Springfie...
2.9K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 746.0 | 
