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MCAS El Toro: Email Exchange Highlights Informational Roadblock

Proof that the committee overseeing the remediation of the environmental impacts from the closed El Toro Marine base, is simply not going to provide information to the public that it is legally bound to deliver.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - This is an email exchange between Salem-News.com's Roger Butow and Bob Woodings, city engineer in Lake Forest, California, regarding the reconfiguration of the old El Toro Marine base.

The old air station is highly contaminated according to the federal EPA which listed the base as an EPA 'Superfund site' in 1990...

Veto Power: an Insult to the International Community: Kenneth O`Keefe

Ken O'Keefe will visit Salem-News.com and the Northwest later in September.

(TEHRAN) - Kenneth O'Keefe is a world citizen. As an anti-war activist and social entrepreneur, he renounced his U.S. citizenship on March 1, 2001 and burned his American passport on January 7, 2004 in protest to the United States' Imperialism and called for the immediate withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.

O'Keefe is a former U.S. Marine who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequently revealed the use of depleted uranium by the United States as a crime against humanity.

Border patrol stops SENTRI Member, mother with toddler each with about 40 Pounds of Cocaine

CBP officers seized 15 packages of cocaine weighing about 40 pounds from the vehicle of a SENTRI member

(San Diego, Calif) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro port of entry Thursday seized 85 pounds of cocaine during two different apprehensions, one involving a SENTRI member, the other a mother with her three-year-old son also in the car.

War Hero Assassinations and War Hero Suicides

PTSD strikes hard at home, with suicides happening far too often.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Oregonian in this past week has given front page display of this tragic problem. I warned about this three years ago when I wrote The Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost. Not to imply that our war hero veterans are “chicken” by any means but the Army is destroying a generation of this country's war heroes, many after they come home.

These suicides et cetera are just the tip of the iceberg.

The PTSD rate of these returning battle veterans is escalating in numbers and also in severity. Almost every returning combat veteran has PTSD.

Salem Police Officer Makes U-Turn and Causes Traffic Crash

Police say there were no injuries in the accident.

(Salem, Oregon) - Just after 8:00 Tuesday morning, Officer Grant Davis, 39 years of age, was eastbound on Mission St SE at Hawthorne Avenue in a 2009 Ford Crown Victoria when he noticed a crashed vehicle on the westbound side.

The Marines Have Landed in Irvine

Too many dead and walking wounded; El Toro's dark side moving toward the light.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - Hundreds of Marines have contacted Salem-News.com since we started writing about the serious health concerns at the old, now-closed El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Irvine.

These needs of El Toro veterans are mostly unrepresented; they now have a friend on the Irvine City Council, Christina Shea, and that is good, because sometimes even warriors need a hero.

Religious Tolerance and Religious Wars

Diversity of religious thought is essential to a free society.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - The United States by its constitution is a nation based on the principle of religious tolerance.

One of the foundational principals of the U.S. Constitution is that all citizens are free to practice their own religion according to their own conscience.

Keizer Barn Destroyed in Late Afternoon Fire - PHOTOS

Investigators are looking into reports of people leaving the area just before the fire started.

(KEIZER, Ore.) - Keizer Fire District crews responded to a reported Barn fire at 7198 River Road N. In Keizer, Oregon. The initial call was received at 4:22 p.m. with units arriving on scene in approximately 5 minutes.

Joel Stein, Fire Marshal with Keizer Fire, says the first unit on scene reported heavy black smoke coming from both ends of the 5000 square foot single story building.

State closure day happens on Friday, September 17

(SALEM, Ore.) - Because of budget reductions for state agencies, most state offices will close on Friday, September 17, requiring 26,500 state employees to take mandatory unpaid furloughs on that day, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services (DAS) announced Wednesday.

The closure on September 17 is the seventh of 10 closure dates the state has scheduled over the current two-year budget period. Each day of closure will save an estimated $2 million in personnel costs, said DAS Director Scott Harra. While the closures affect both management and non-management employees, many state workers will take up to four additional days of unpaid furlough on a floating basis over the remainder of the biennium.

Restaurant Visits Decline in Spring for Eighth Consecutive Quarter, But Rate of Decline Slows Over Year Ago

Although the traffic declines moderated this past spring, restaurant operators continued to battle for market share

(SALEM, Ore.) - The effects of a lingering recession continued to keep visits to U.S. restaurants down for the eighth consecutive quarter this past spring, but the rate of decline eased over the same quarter a year ago, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. NPD’s foodservice market research reports that visits to restaurants declined by -1 percent in the quarter ending June 2010, an improvement over the -3 percent traffic loss in spring 2009. After four consecutive quarters of declines consumer spending at commercial foodservice this spring edged above a year ago spending, with a +1 percent lift.