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Directory Threatens Business with Sketchy Invoice

BBB recommends caution when doing business with Blue Yellow Book.

(LAKE OSWEGO, Ore.) - Your Better Business Bureau phone staff have received complaints from businesses who say a company called Blue Yellow Book or blueyellowbook.com is contacting them with a dishonest request.

“I was in tears,” said Sallie Norman, a business owner in Sterling, Alaska, after being contacted in an aggressive manner by Blue Yellow Book. “They scare the daylights out of you.”

Blue Yellow Book, at 20533 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 635 in Miami, has an “F” rating with your BBB. This is BBB’s lowest rating, meaning that we strongly question the company’s reliability. BBB has received 20 complaints in the past 36 months concerning Blue Yellow Book; 19 are closed unanswered.

House Passes Bill Banning Dangerous Toylike Novelty Lighters

Bill is part of House Democrats' 2009 Roadmap for Oregon's future.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The House of Representative today passed HB 2365 banning themanufacture, sale, and distribution of dangerous and deceptive, toylike novelty lighters on a unanimous vote.

Readily available at hardware stores, gas stations, and convenience stores, toy-like novelty lighters are easily mistaken for toys and routinely contribute to unintentional fires and injuries to children and families.

"As a former police officer and current firefighter, I'm happy to see we're taking an active role in protecting our children and families from burn injury, death, and property loss," explained Representative Greg Matthews (D-Gresham).

Wyden-Snowe Amendment Will Recover Taxpayer Dollars Paid-Out as Wall Street Bonuses

In 2008, financial institutions received more than $274 billion through TARP, while paying out an estimated $18.4 billion in employee bonuses.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Financial institutions that used “federal bailout” funds to pay employees bonuses in excess of $100,000 will be required to compensate taxpayers under a provision that will be introduced today by U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine).

Obama Will Cap Nation`s Fattest Executive Salaries Fueled by Bailout (VIDEO)

Imagine a bunch of executives being "limited" to half a million dollars a year; can they live on that?

(SALEM, Ore.) - President Barack Obama has ordered a half million dollar salary cap for the people who run America's biggest bailed out companies.

Obama Releases State-Specific Impacts of American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan

A fact sheet details employment, infrastructure, education, and health care gains from recovery plan.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The White House today released additional state-specific details on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. The recovery plan will create and save jobs in the near future while addressing long-neglected needs that are critical to laying the foundation for a strong economic future.

Nationwide, Obama’s plan will create or save 3-4 million jobs over the next two years. Additionally, 95% of American workers will get a tax cut and tens of billions will be invested in roads, bridges, mass transit, flood control, and clean water projects.

Albany Police Make Arrest in Arson Investigation

The man was arrested two separate times over nine local arson fires.

(ALBANY, Ore.) - Albany Police arrested 74-year-old Donald George Rice, an Albany area transient, in connection with a number of recent fires Tuesday at approximately 9:20 a.m.

Rush Limbaugh: The Ugly Un-American

The rest of us hope Rush Limbaugh fails.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It may be far from perfect, it might be quite good, but the fact is that Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States and he says he has a plan to create or save 3 million jobs.

Electing a black, Democratic President had to be a cold shot for the drug-addicted neocon comedian Rush Limbaugh. He's been agitating the American conscience for years by playing off the dire emotions of fear-based conservatives.

But whose side is he on? Limbaugh's statement about Obama's economic plan; "I hope he fails", is an act of treason against everything in America that is correct.

Willamette Tenth in Nation for Peace Corps Volunteers (PHOTO SERIES)

Throughout the last 47 years, 281 Willamette alumni have joined the Peace Corps ranks.

(SALEM, Ore..) - Willamette University ranks No. 10 in the nation this year on the Peace Corps’ list of small undergraduate schools producing Peace Corps volunteers.

Nests in Hell

This article from the Pakistan Daily is your glimpse into how the world sees U.S. politics.

(ISLAMABAD) - 'American Leadership is good for America and for the World'

So reads the introduction to the Project For The New American Century (PNAC), perhaps the most important document ever ignored by so many impacted millions—the neocon blueprint for American "full-spectrum domination" of the world. "Benign global hegemony" is their tender euphemism for it, and the hegemony business is not going as planned.

American leadership for America hasn't been so good, either.

Commonly accepted accounting principles show America bankrupt, our federal government's net worth at negative $60 trillion, roughly.

$10,000 Reward Offered for Suspect Arrest & Conviction in the Murder of Gurdev Sohi

Mr Sohi's family says it is very important that they find closure and the person responsible for his untimely death.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - On February 4th 2008, Gurdev Sohi was murdered while working at the Delco gas station he owned located at 17873 SE McLoughlin Blvd.

Investigators say the murder occurred between 6:00 a.m. and 6:20 a.m. that morning.

The suspect in this case is a male, estimated to be 5’10” to 6’1” in height with and average build. The suspect then fled in an unknown make and model sedan.