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Delta Will Suspend Salem Flights in October

The city of Salem, Oregon and the city's Chamber of Commerce have invested big in this short-lived venture.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It has been a bone of contention for many. Now, Delta Airlines has notified the City of Salem that as of July 26th 2008, just a few days from now, it will not be accepting reservations for flights into and from Salem. The last reservations that will be booked range through October 10th 2008.

Delta says they will work directly with persons who already have reservations after October 10th 2008 to best accommodate their travel plans.

High fuel costs are the reason Delta cites for their decision to suspend these flights.

Immigration Reform - Business Begins to Find its Voice

OBA Provides Perspective on the Diverse Needs of Oregon Employers.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - This is a statement submitted for publication by the Oregon Business Association. The OBA says their mission is to continue to represent their industry-diverse, state-wide members within a coalition of employers and to work to protect Oregon's long term economic vitality.

From Three Mile Canyon Farms, Oregon's largest agricultural operation to The Standard Insurance Company, that recruits many of its actuaries from Canadian universities through the federal visa program, OBA members desire a rational conversation about immigration and meeting the workforce needs of our employers.

OBA participated in a media roundtable and editorial board meeting along with other members of the Coalition for a Working Oregon (CWO). The event, covered by television and print media from around the state, provided the opportunity for CWO to release a new study that predicts potential disruption to Oregon's economy.

Salem-News.com Article Inspires BBC Radio Program

Salem-News.com article on Oregon's upcoming campaign to legalize marijuana and sell it in liquor stores, inspires a BBC Radio Program also heard on OPB in Oregon.

(SALEM, Ore.) - With expertise and guidance from one of the nation's most esteemed medical marijuana physicians, Dr. Phillip Leveque; Salem-News.com has blazed new trails with our stories, interviews, and question & answer segments on the legal use of cannabis.

I was pleased today to receive a BBC Radio Producer's email stating, "Dear Tim King - We read your article on the Oregon Cannabis Law with great interest. It has inspired a whole BBC radio programme (which can also be heard via OPB in Oregon."

This is the type of development that is happening all over the world right now, and the sobering knowledge that marijuana is very close to finally reaching true and unfiltered legality is riling many anti-pot activists. One of the biggest groups raising a voice against legalization, are members of the medical professions that financially benefit from marijuana being illegal.

Op Ed: `Econ 101` Corrupted
By Corporate Design:
Part Two: Conclusions

Natural fact: what Franklin, founders knew in 1779.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - As early as Revolutionary days, canny Ben Franklin put it potently, as well as succinctly: "Private property is a creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society, whenever its needs may require it." --Ben Franklin - 1789.

The Founders, prescient men-all, knew a natural fact when it was completely obvious from their long-continued study of famed philosophers over centuries.

What Founder Ben was telling us-all even then is now, more than ever after 150 years of the American Experience, is natural fact, long recognized. It is the most-essential fact on which much, if not most, of our "Revolutionary concept of shared complicit and essentially cooperative governance" has come to be based.

Newly-Released Study Predicts Economic Pain for Oregon if Federal Immigration Regulations are Implemented‏

Federal "No Match" Rule could disrupt the Oregon economy and eliminate jobs within the state's most critical industries.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Coalition for a Working Oregon (CWO) released a study today that predicts significant reductions in economic output and job loss in the state if the federal "No Match" rule is implemented.

The study, conducted by William Jaeger, Ph. D., Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State University, is entitled Potential Economic Impacts in Oregon of Implementing Proposed Department of Homeland Security "No Match" Immigration Rules. The report details possible economic consequences in Oregon of the proposed "No Match" rule, a federal regulation designed to identify and eliminate undocumented workers in the U.S. workforce.

"The potential ramifications for Oregon's economy are significant and could cause a loss of 173,500 jobs in the short-term, or 7.7% of Oregon's workforce along with a reduction in statewide annual production of up to $17.7 billion," said Dr. Jaeger.

Why Evangelicals Will Become the New Environmentalists

Pastor Ken Wilson is co-founder of a project that brings evangelical pastors together for a day with environmental scientists to discover common ground.

(ANN ARBOR Mich.) - You've probably noticed a shift in the American religious landscape. Evangelicals who have been known to affix the adjective "whacko" to the term "environmentalist" are starting to go green. Calls to return to the biblical heritage of environmental stewardship are pouring from leaders like Richard Cizik, the Vice President for Governmental Affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, Rick Warren, the author of The Purpose Driven Life, and Bill Hybels, the voice for over 6,000 churches in his Willow Creek Association.

What began as a trickle and has swelled into a steady stream is bound to become a flood as evangelicals in America become the new environmentalists. We will bring new energy to address the growing global environmental crisis of a warming climate, an alarming extinction rate, the rapid loss of land that can grow crops, and over a billion people without clean drinking water.

Data and Common Sense Be Damned

The Oregon Center for Public Policy's Charles Sheketoff discusses economists, twisted logic and timber payments.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - The Cascade Policy Institute's most recent paper assessing states' spending levels reminds me of an old joke about an economist, a doctor and a lawyer stuck in a deep hole. The doctor couldn't operate his way out. The lawyer couldn't argue his way out. But the economist had a solution, or so he said. "Assume we have a ladder. . . ."

Economic models are only as good as the assumptions on which they rest, and sometimes economists are so blinded by their ideologies that they don't notice when their models produce meaningless fantasies. The study by economists Eric Fruits and Randall Pozdena, published by the Cascade Policy Institute, is a good example. Their study predicts spending levels for states and compares their predictions with actual spending data.

Odd results for some states, however, reveal that the authors' zeal to show somehow that Oregon and other states spend too much led them to use false assumptions, bad math, or both.

Western Heavy Rain, Dry Lightning Risk (VIDEO)

Prolonged exposure to the extreme heat could result in potentially deadly heat stroke or dangerous heat exhaustion.

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) - Forecasters at AccuWeather.com, say they are monitoring two areas of thunderstorms across the West over the next day or two that have potential to create new wildfires over California. Temperatures in the central valley and the high desert today will soar above 110 degrees, with highs in the 80s and 90s spreading east to the western Plains and north into western Canada.

Storms associated with the Southwest monsoon will bring drenching rainfall to portions of New Mexico and Arizona through Thursday. The rainfall will be enhanced by a southeasterly flow off the Gulf of Mexico. Where thunderstorms are persistent and slow-moving, flash flooding can occur.

While some of this moisture will not make it over the Sierra Madre Oriental, there is copious moisture flowing from this direction, as evidenced by the very heavy rainfall in recent days across South Texas and eastern Mexico.

`Jungle Girl` of Cambodia Makes Small Strides, 18 Months After Rescue

A provincial Communist Party boss and former top Party aide take aim at officials after rioting in southwestern China

(PHNOM PENH, Cambodia) - Cambodia’s "jungle girl," who lived alone in the forest for 18 years after vanishing at age nine, has learned to dress herself, bathe, and laugh in the year-and-a-half since she returned to her family, but she remains unable to speak, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Student Builds Creative Website for College Money

"It's a win-win-win situation. People get to show off their baby's cuteness, while I get to go to school and a piece of art is born!" - Skylar Windham

(SALEM, Ore.) - An Oregon college student from the coastal town of Brookings, says has he has found a unique way to save money for school, generate a unique piece of art, and show off more than 60 smiling babies.

Skylar Windham plans to attend Western Oregon University this fall. He started thesmileposter.org because traditional income sources are not available to people as they were in the past.

"I'm trying to save money for tuition, as higher education is expensive these days, but it has been very difficult to find a job in my small town. I haven't given up the search, but in the meantime I figured I give this idea a try."