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Horizon Air Will End Pendleton, Oregon Service

More bad news for Oregon's economy stems from a government decision to award a contract to another airline.

(SEATTLE, Wash.) - Horizon Air will discontinue flights from Pendleton, Ore., after December 1st following the Department of Transportation’s decision to award an Essential Air Service (EAS) contract to another airline.

"We're very disappointed. We went to great lengths to craft a bid that offered multiple air service options – each addressing specific needs expressed by the community, and doing so with our state-of-the-art 76-seat Q400s," said Dan Russo, Horizon’s vice president of marketing and communications.

Horizon currently offers daily flights from Pendleton to Portland and Pasco. Starting October 28th, Horizon will serve Pendleton with flights to Seattle -- through Dec.ember 1st, the last day it will provide service to Pendleton.

Salem TV Station KWVT Goes Digital

Today, KWVT makes history as Salem's first truly local TV station to broadcast a digital signal.

(SALEM, Ore.) - KWVT began as the vision of two local individuals who knew Salem needed its own local television station. “We kept hearing about every thing the Mid Valley has to offer, and realized there needed to be a way to get the word out,” says co-owner Michael Mattson. “As longtime residents of the area, we knew the Portland stations were ignoring Salem.”

“Another reason is that during the ’96 floods, all the Portland stations were focused on the sea wall in Portland and creating all this hype about what could happen if it didn't hold, yet at the same time, we had real flooding in Keizer,” added Ken Lewetag.

Lewetag and Mattson were experienced in various aspects of broadcasting, and when the Federal Communications Commission opened an opportunity to file for new TV stations in August of 2000, the men each filed several applications for various communities around Oregon. Nearly five years later they signed on their first Salem Station on channel 52. In the summer of 2007 they signed-on their channel 17.

Distorting Obama`s Views on Israel

As Republicans call Obama soft on Israel, progressive Americans bemoan his alignment with right wing politics when it comes to the Jewish state.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Barack Obama has alienated key sectors of his progressive base with statements and policy proposals regarding Israel in which he allies himself with right-wing Republicans.

These have included: rejecting calls by human rights activists to condition military aid to Israel on an improvement in the government's human rights record; defending Israel's massive 2006 assault against Lebanon's civilian infrastructure, which killed more than 800 civilians; disputing findings by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other reputable human rights organizations citing Israeli violations of international humanitarian law.

Nevertheless, the Republican Jewish Coalition has launched a series of ads across the United States claiming that the stridently pro-Israel Obama is actually "reckless," "naïve," and "dangerous" when it comes to Israel and its security.

Oregon Gets New 458 Area Code

All existing numbers will retain the 541 area code, but new telephone customers for local phone service, cellular and paging services, and alarms, for example, assigned in the same area may receive the new area code after the 2010 implementation date.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregonians who live in the 541 area code won’t be in danger of running out of telephone numbers. That’s because the Oregon Public Utility Commission, after a thorough investigation, has approved a new area code relief plan that will ensure there are enough telephone numbers available for 24 more years.

The new 458 area code will serve the same geographic area as the current 541 area code, which includes southern and eastern portions of the state. The Commission will work with industry representatives in producing media releases, customer education materials such as bill inserts, and public forums to inform the public before the new area code takes effect in 2010.

Northwest Climate Change is Target of $3.2 Million in Grants to UO

Northwest climate change is target of $3.2 million in grants to UO: NSF, DOE projects by Bart Johnson and Scott Bridgham aim to drive policies to protect people & ecosystems.

(EUGENE. Ore.) - Climate change in the Northwest is the focus of two federal grants totaling $3.2 million awarded to two University of Oregon researchers. They will work together on a pair of multi-site projects designed to help enhance biodiversity while protecting people and property from wildfires in the face of a changing climate.

Scott D. Bridgham, an ecologist in the UO's Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will lead an effort to understand potential threats to prairie ecosystems in Oregon and Washington with a $1.8 million, four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Salem Tourism Group Adopts New Moniker and Sets Bar for Visitor Information

Travel Salem makes biggest move in its 25-year history.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Reinvention is the name of the game for the Salem Convention and Visitors Association (SCVA). The Association changed its name, has secured a new downtown location for its headquarters, and is expanding visitor information to two locations on Interstate 5.

The Association, formerly known as SCVA, will now be Travel Salem. The new name is more concise, a call to action, and is in line with recent name changes within the industry such as Travel Oregon and Travel Portland.

Travel Salem coined their new downtown destination visitors center the “Salem Travel Café.” This state-of-the-art destination visitors center will be designed to showcase the region’s amenities and economic development opportunities, and will serve as the hub for driving visitation and economic impact to the region.

Spiking Energy Costs Trigger More Federal Assistance

Oregon to receive $6 million in addition to the $45 million recently announced.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Rising home-heating costs putting low-income Oregonians in peril have triggered release of more than $6 million in additional federal LIHEAP funds.

The Republicans Embrace the Cootie Effect

Even after the initial rounds of attacks against Obama had been debunked, Virginia's GOP chair compared Obama to Osama bin Laden since both of them "have friends that have bombed the Pentagon," a comment McCain refused to renounce.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Back in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, simply being friends with someone suspected of being a Communist could ruin your career. It became known as "guilt by association." During this year's presidential campaign, however, it's been extended to guilt by spatial proximity, which could appropriately be called the "cootie effect." If you sit on the same board, have appeared at the same event or otherwise have been in close physical proximity of someone deemed undesirable, you therefore must have been infected by their politics or, at minimum, have no problems with things they may have done in their past.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin, building upon a line of attack originally used by Hillary Clinton during the primary campaign, have raised alarms over the possibility that Barack Obama may have picked up radical terrorist cooties from Bill Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago who was active in the Weather Underground during his youth nearly forty years ago.

Remains of WWII Pilot Recovered in France

An Army Air Force Lt. in a flight of 22 U.S. fighters was attacked by 80 German aircraft.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The remains of a U.S. serviceman missing in action from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. 2nd Lieutenant Ray D. Packard, U.S. Army Air Forces, of Atwood, California. He will be buried on October 22nd in Prescott, Arizona.

Enroute to their target, the fighter group was intercepted by more than 80 German fighters near Beauvais, France. During the ensuing dogfight, 11 P-38s were shot down, including Ray Packard's which crashed 15 miles south of Beauvais near the town of Angy.

Five of the pilots escaped and evaded enemy capture and two were taken as prisoners of war. Of the four men who were missing in action, three were later recovered and identified, but Lt. Packard remained unaccounted-for.

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Warrior-Type Ready To Act for “National Security”

(EUGENE, Ore.) - The most explosive story in U.S. history may be simmering along right under the dark clouds of the coming Presidential election.

The mainstream media have not yet dared to explore what’s obvious in the end-phase of this election: The “Demon-in-the-bottle” has been freed by campaign desperation, to pollute the election atmosphere.

Nobody rational and reasonable in this nation can be unaware of the brewing bloody confrontation almost now sure to erupt in American cities if --once again --more than 40 million Americans are deprived of t