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Protecting Native Endangered Species Keeps California Beautiful
Southern Steelhead Trout

"What is now proved was once imagined."
— William Blake
"The truth is more important than the facts."
— Frank Lloyd Wright
"Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over."- Mark Twain (attributed)

(LAGUNA BEACH) - Drought cycles that result in fresh water resource depletions, combined with increasing subterranean aquifer drafting down, renew the century-old battle in California to find a sustainable balance of protected wilderness and increased human population demands in my home state.

John Stossel and Truth, Justice and the American Way

Stossel buys the marketing ploy of a shrewd criminally convicted pharmaceutical company.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - This week John Stossel of ABC 20/20 fame, posted this a plug for his new TV show:

"People who are desperate to try different medicines and treatments run into a wall of FDA bureaucracy. People suffer and die because the government 'protects' us. It should protect us less and respect our liberty more."

Insurance Giant AIG will Pay $8 Million to Oregon PERS

AIG will pay millions to settle lawsuit recouping Oregon pension fund losses for workers and retirees

(SALEM, Ore.) - “We go to great lengths to protect Oregonians and their public investments,” said Treasurer Westlund. “This settlement is another example of how your State Treasury is protecting the public good.”

Tsunami Warnings Issued After 8.8 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Chile

A tsunami warning has been issued for Chile, Peru and Ecuador.

(CONCEPCION, Chile) - The U.S. Geologic Survey reports that an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter Scale struck Chile Saturday at 3:34 a.m. local time.

The epicenter of this massive quake is in the offshore Maule region of Chile, approximately 60 miles north/northwest of Chillan, Chile.

76-year old Woman from Oregon City Located and She`s Safe

Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue (SAR) personnel and volunteers located a missing woman.

(OREGON CITY) - UPDATE: Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. Dorothy Beyer, the missing and reportedly despondent 76-year-old has been located.

Dorothy Beyer was located by Search & Rescue personnel a short distance from her residence on S. Hoffman Road, in Oregon City.

The Southwestern Company: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Correspondence

When a law firm allows itself to be used as a mouthpiece to transmit knowingly false information on the behalf of a client, that law firm itself is tarnished.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, the Oregon law firm representing The Southwestern Company continues to send letters making increasingly shrill and inaccurate demands concerning the ongoing expose of The SW Company’s business practices.

Op Ed: Healthcare-Summit GOPsters Modify Futile Obstruction

Obama “Transparency” Triumphs for Nation-to-Know.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - “By their actions ye shall know them” - sensible, sensitive rule found in any Bible.

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Elementary Teacher Shot and Killed in Tacoma, Washington

Police fatally shot the suspect a few blocks away

(TACOMA, Wash.) - Police in Tacoma Washington say that a special education teacher was shot to death at an elementary school this morning.

Oregonians Call on U.S. Government to Withhold Support from `Sham` Sudanese Elections

Sudanese elections, currently scheduled for April 2010, will be anything but free and fair.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Residents of Oregon are joining activists nationwide to call for the withholding of US support for illegitimate Sudanese elections, currently scheduled for April 11, 2010.