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Wyden and Merkley Ask HUD Secretary To Help Preserve Affordable Housing

Senators Put Forward Innovative Financing Strategy to Help Residents Stay in Their Homes.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - In a letter to the new U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) asked that he help Americans at this time of economic hardship by preserving affordable housing across the country through an innovative use of “Residual Receipts.”

Myanmar: UN Envoy Meets with Pro-Democracy Leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Ms. Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for over four years, and has spent more than 11 years in detention since the NLD and its allies won the 1990 election with over 80 per cent of the parliamentary seats.

(RANGOON) - The Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Myanmar continued his visit to the South-East Asian nation today, meeting with Government officials and opposition and other political parties, including with detained pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Ibrahim Gambari arrived in Yangon over the weekend for a four-day visit, his fifth in the past year and a half, as part of the good offices mandate entrusted to the Secretary-General by the General Assembly.

Gratitude

Over boulders the size of large beach balls, the car literally flew nose-first into the wash. The momentum carried the car into a front side flip, spiraling over once or twice...

(AGOURA, Calif.) - So, we've all read those PEOPLE magazine stories about people living through a life threatening experience and coming out a changed person, right?

UN Secretary-General Congratulates Iraqis on Violence-Free Provincial Elections

Staffan de Mistura, Mr. Ban’s Special Representative in Iraq, says these are the first elections that will affect the day-to-day lives of Iraqi voters.

(NEW YORK) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated the people of Iraq for “strongly exercising” their right to vote in provincial elections that took place over the weekend, in an atmosphere that he called “admirably free of violence.”

Marijuana Dangers & Reefer Madness

Dr. Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Pharmacologist, Toxicologist and Physician.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I will be the first person to admit that I am very new at this computer toy/contraption. I am astonished at what is on it. Any computer gazer knows that I am an advocate for medical marijuana and that I have more than 4 thousand patients on it.

Marijuana Reseacher Par Excellence Dr. Billy Ray Martin (1943-2008)

A memorial to a man who may have helped the medical marijuana movement without meaning to.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Dr. Martin was a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at The Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. He spent about the last thirty years of his life studying, experimenting (with rats) and lecturing/testifying about the dangers of marijuana.

Police Investigate Double Homicide in Columbia County

The investigation is ongoing and few details have been confirmed at this point by police.

(SCAPOOSE, Ore.) - The Columbia County Sheriff's Office has identified the bodies of two adults found dead in their home a mile south of Scappoose earlier today.

Three Pets Die in Salem House Fire

The Salem Fire Investigator stated there were an adequate number of working smoke detectors throughout the home.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem firefighters responded to a two-alarm house fire late Monday morning. The first alarm was dispatched at 10:30 a.m. to 4520 Drake Court NE.

The One State Solution

For a durable solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Bible and the Quran must be de-politicized. In political terms, de-politicization means a single secular democratic state for Jews and Palestinians.

(NEW YORK) - The Arab Israeli conflict has become a religious war. Politicizing the Bible's Genesis 15:18 politicized the Quran. Genesis 15:18 declares: "The Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, unto thy seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates."

`2009 Winter Rod and Speed Show` in Albany is a Major Success (VIDEO)

More than 100 cars turned out for the event at the Linn County Expo Center in Albany.

(ALBANY, Ore.) - A car show held over the weekend to benefit a little girl who is ill, may have turned out to be the biggest hot rod event in the history of Oregon's Willamette Valley.