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Hillsboro Police Investigate Car Vs. Max Train Crash‏

The male driver of the car suffered serious injuries and was transported to OHSU via lifeflight and was taken into surgery.

(HILLSBORO, Ore.) - Hillsboro Police say a motor vehicle collided with a tri-met train at 10th and Washington streets in Hillsboro Saturday night, at approximately 7:16 PM.

Lt. Michael Rouches with Hillsboro Police says the driver of a 1996 Mercedes Benz sedan was traveling northbound on 10th street and was struck by the westbound train.

"Preliminary investigation reveals that the automobile may have failed to stop for a red traffic signal," Rouches said.

Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

No Purple Heart, no VA Care: what a crime!

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - On January 7th 2009, The Oregonian newspaper printed this short item: The number of U.S. war veterans who have been denied VA healthcare since 2003: 452,677.

ARE OUR VETERANS STILL TOTALLY EXPENDABLE?

When I read this I was so enraged I felt like strangling somebody - almost anybody.

What about one thousand war veterans committing suicide every day from not only lack of care but in most cases, being given care which actually causes suicides?

UN Humanitarian Chief Continues Assessing Needs in Post-Conflict Gaza

Members of civil society stressed to the UN official the need to keep the crossings into Gaza open, while Palestinian groups voiced the deep anger of their community and called for accountability.

(GAZA) - The top United Nations humanitarian official, who is on the ground to assess needs in Gaza, has lauded the determination of those working to address the immediate needs of people in the wake of the recent three-week Israeli military offensive.

Today in Ramallah and Jerusalem, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes met with the Palestinian Authority, representatives of the Private Sector Council, Palestinian and Israeli non-government organizations (NGOs), and Israeli academics.

The Real Images of Gaza

PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED: Extremely disturbing and graphic images tell the real story of the Israeli attack on Gaza.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The damage Israel inflicted on the civilian population of Gaza is the subject of this special video report. The images are extremely graphic and parental discretion is strongly advised.

But people should watch it, and see the images of destruction and massacred children. The sentiment has been strong in the U.S. that Israel has been simply defending itself from Hamas rocket and mortar attacks and while that is a serious problem, the reaction seems highly disproportionate.

The video is actually a special music video report, featuring the music of two artists; Yosef Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, who sings "Call to Prayer" as the first musical piece, and "Angel of War" as the third and final song.

Veterans For Change Demands Accountability for Those Who Served

They want Congress to amend the “The Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 2008” to speed up the update of the Disability Rating Schedule and several other sections of the law, as it is apparent that the VA has stalled these updates for years

(GARDEN GROVE) - The small but vocal group Veterans-for-Change released a letter today calling for new legislation in the 111th Congress. The group's Jim Davis, says their request is based on what he calls the obvious fact, that while billions may be spent on war, on bailouts, and economic stimuli, the U.S. Government cannot appropriate sufficient funding to care for Veterans and Widows of Veterans disabled by their President.

The group hits on recent events horrendously dismissed by the Department of Veteran Affairs such as admitting they didn’t check their computer programs and change them to comply with legislation, thus causing monies to be erroneously collected from the widows of Veterans at the worst possible time, the moment of their deaths.

`Tracking Oregon`s Boundaries` Depicts Pacific Northwest between 1802-1861

Map exhibit will be displayed at capitol as part of the state's 150th birthday celebration

(EUGENE, Ore.) - The period between 1802 and 1861 was a time of exploration and settlement in the Pacific Northwest, specifically in the area that would become Oregon in 1859. An exhibition of rare maps from this time period will be displayed through the month of February in the capitol building in Salem as part of the state's sesquicentennial celebration.

The exhibit, "Tracking Oregon's Boundaries: Maps from 1802 to 1861," highlights more than 60 years of the changing topography, geography and political boundaries of the region. Many of the maps were commissioned by the U.S. government and were created by the best cartographers of the time. One is from the same printing of the map used to plan the Lewis and Clark exploration, with the area from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean virtually blank.

Does Obama Have Control of the DEA?

Has the time arrived for Obama to take his gloves off and overhaul the DEA from top to bottom, or is it even an option?

(SALEM, Ore.) - The DEA is defying President Barack Obama's word that the Department of Justice would no longer be used to harrass and arrest owners and operators of medical marijuana dispensaries.

"I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana dispenseries; it is not a good use of our resources," then Presidential Contender Obama said, on August 21st 2007.

The group Americans for Safe Access reports that on Thursday, the Drug Enforcement Administration, teeming with officials from the Bush Administration, raided a medical cannabis dispensary in South Lake Tahoe, California.

Safety and Emergency Experts Discuss Factors that Led to Safe Landing on the Hudson

The Difference between a Miracle and a Tragedy: Safety and emergency experts discuss factors that led to safe landing on the Hudson.

(BOWLING GREEN, Ohio ) - After his amazing landing of US Airways' Flight 1549 on the Hudson River last week, the media heralded pilot Chelsey B. Sullenberger for his courage, but industrial-organizational psychologists at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) say several other factors also played a role in the safe landing.

Following are comments from some of SIOP's experts in workplace safety and airline emergencies on what factors may have been at play during the landing.

Wyden, Crapo and Walden Introduce Legislation to Improve Patient Access to Rural Hospitals

Bill would guarantee that Veterans not be turned away.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Eliminating bureaucratic barriers that made it harder for rural residents and veterans to receive health care, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Representative Greg Walden (R-Ore.) introduced legislation today that would improve access to nearly 1,300 hospitals in rural, under-served areas of the nation. Twenty-five of the hospitals are in Oregon.

The Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act of 2009 would give small, rural hospitals greater flexibility in complying with federal regulations in order to better meet the needs of local residents and avoid the high cost of transporting patients to other facilities.

Not Your Grandfather`s Workforce, but It`s Still His Unemployment Insurance System

Just as you don't drive your grandfather's Oldsmobile, Oregonians shouldn't be stuck with their grandfathers' unemployment insurance system.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - Let's say you often bike to work and your Oldsmobile stays in the garage half the work week. On a day when you drive, you get into an accident. Although you dutifully pay insurance every month, your claim gets denied. "Sorry," your insurer says, "you don't drive enough."

It's crazy, right? But that scenario is not too different from what many laid-off Oregon workers experience when attempting to collect unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.

Oregon's antiquated UI program often excludes part-time and temporary workers whose employers paid into the system on their behalf. Modernizing the program so that it better serves today's workforce is more urgent today, as a severe recession leaves more Oregonians without work.