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Americans Believe Global Warming is Real, Want Action, But Not as a Priority

To reach the public, the government, organizations, and educators urged to focus locally, with targeted approaches.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Most Americans believe global warming is real but a moderate and distant risk.

Op Ed:
Make-or-Break Arrives
Early in The Arena:
Get It Done Or Pay Price

Participants poised For progress or heavy cost.

(SALEM) - Oregon business leaders are publicly agreeing on one-time kicker usage to fix the roof before the next downpour. The rainy day fund so established recaptures lost-millions now dumped to corporate bottom lines outside of Oregon. That will create rational and reasonable stability for sure-to-come necessity.

Final-fate for the now-fully/discredited kicker-concept can be left to later voter-discretion --but that rainy day reality must be achieved NOW and without fail.

Newport Seafood & Wine Festival Happens Later this Month

Being the early bird is the key more than ever these days for lodging, as rooms fill up to 100 percent in the area, including in outlying towns like Depoe Bay, Lincoln City and Waldport.

(NEWPORT) - At the last weekend of every February, the central Oregon coast resort town of Newport swells with well over 17,000 visitors, who come to the annual Newport Seafood & Wine Festival for a weekend of wine, wonders in the culinary world, seafood and arts & crafts.

This year, the Newport Seafood & Wine Festival celebrates its 30th year of cramming hordes of wine and food lovers into a small coastal town, happening February 23rd - 25th, 2007 - adjacent to the Rogue Ales Warehouse, 2320 OSU Drive, just south of downtown Newport.

Oregon Woman in Nevada Jail Accused of Shooting Boyfriend

Jennifer Everton is being held on a attempted murder charge.

(FERNLEY, NV) - A woman from Portland is in a Nevada jail on suspicion of shooting her boyfriend

Be Aware! Oregon State Police Responding to Several Crashes in Santiam Pass

Stay with Salem-News.com for more information on this story as soon as it becomes available.

(DETROIT) - The Oregon State Police wants you to Be Aware! of multiple traffic crashes due to icy conditions in the Santiam Pass area.

OSP troopers and local emergency responders are working the area and caution motorists to be prepared for these conditions, reduce speeds, and anticipate possible delays.

At 10:10 AM the temperature recorded by ODOT's camera at US-20 MP 71.59 - 89.2 was 28 degrees with gusty winds.

Oregonians Could Vote in May on Oregon Rainy Day Fund

Legislation would set up a May election to redirect corporate kicker into fund.

(SALEM) - The Senate Finance and Revenue Committee has voted to move two bills that will put in motion a plan to ask voters to redirect the corporate kicker and dedicate the revenue to a rainy day fund to be drawn from during economic downturns.

Senate Joint Resolution 3 would refer the question of redirecting the corporate kicker to the voters and Senate Bill 48 would implement the transfer of the corporate kicker funds to a savings account.

“Saving money for an economic recession makes sense to everyone,” said Senator Ryan Deckert (D-Beaverton).

“We are ready to put this plan into action and we believe Oregonians will support it.”

The committee voted unanimously to move Senate Bill 48 to the floor where the bill will be carried by Senator Bruce Starr (R-Hillsboro).

In addition to corporate kicker revenue, the rainy day fund created by Senate Bill 48 will be filled with a portion of the ending fund balance.

Oregon Celebrates Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month

The Awards ceremony and dedication takes place Monday, March 12th, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM at the Barbara Roberts Human Services Building, 500 Summer St. NE in Salem.

(SALEM) - Oregon's governor has proclaimed March 2007 Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. In recognition of the designation, the Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities is sponsoring a March 12th event that brings together advocates, providers, consumers, policymakers and public employees to celebrate this year's theme, "Every child deserves a family home."

DHS Director Bruce Goldberg, M.D., will read the proclamation and present this year's Developmental Disability Champion Awards to a policymaker and an advocate who have increased awareness and advocated on behalf of people with disabilities and their families.

UPDATE: 290 People Sick From Peter Pan, Great Value Peanut Butter Salmonella Outbreak

Forty six patients are known to have been hospitalized and there have been no reported deaths

(ATLANTA) - On Wednesday, the FDA advised consumers not to eat any Peter Pan peanut butter purchased since May 2006 and not to eat Great Value peanut butter with a product code beginning with "2111" purchased since May 2006 because of risk of contamination with Salmonella Tennessee.

Wheatland Ferry Closing Due to High River Levels

(SALEM) - The Marion County Public Works Department says the Wheatland Ferry will be closing Friday at 6:00 PM due to projected high river levels.

Once the river level receeds to a safe operating level, the ferry will re-open.

The ferry is located one mile north of the Yamhill–Polk county border,and shuttles passengers across the Willamette River, linking Marion with Yamhill and Polk counties.

Salem, Oregon Friends Ascend an Afghanistan Mountain

DISPATCHES FROM AFGHANISTAN
Reporter Tim King climbed the Ghar Mountain in Afghanistan with two friends from Salem, both officers in the Oregon National Guard.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - The mountain range towering over the image of an Afghanistan soldier is called the Ghar. It is a place where Mujihadeen rebels attacked occupying Soviet forces toward the end of their war here in the 1980's.

The rugged terrain of the Ghar Mountain rises almost sixteen hundred feet above Kabul, Afghanistan.

Soldiers and other military personnel climb the Ghar regularly, and if you want to be in this mountain climber's club, you have to rise early.