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American Legion Returns to Roseburg to Hear Veterans` Health-Care Concerns

The follow-on meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Feb. 11 at American Legion Post 16 on 406 S.E. Oak St. in Roseburg.

(ROSEBURG, OR) - The American Legion, the country’s largest organization of wartime veterans, will return to Roseburg on Feb. 11 to host a second town hall for veterans to discuss the quality of health care they are receiving at the city’s Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center.

Members of the Legion’s System Worth Saving Task Force last met with local veterans at a Jan. 9 town hall meeting.

Merkley Votes to Remove Military Retiree Cuts

Senator Merkley has been outspoken in his opposition to the cuts.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley issued the following statement after the Senate voted to move forward on a bill that would safeguard military retirees from changes to cost of living adjustments (COLA) that were included in the budget agreement passed last December.

“The budget deal passed last year had an outrageous provision: a cut to veterans’ pensions...”

Sri Lanka Publications Twist Judicial Reprimand to Defane Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran

Mr. Rudrakumaran has been, and continues to be, a critic of the Government of Sri Lanka.

(NEW YORK) - A disciplinary sanction which a court imposed against a respected New York attorney early last year has recently become a pretext for online character assassination against the attorney by websites that appear to be opposed to the attorney’s politics.

The attorney, Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, was admitted to the New York bar in 1993.

Linn County Sheriff Office Busy with Weather Related Calls

Advice from the Linn County Sheriff to keep residents safe and alive.

(ALBANY) - Linn County Sheriff Bruce Riley reports his deputies have been extremely busy over the last few days. Since the snow began to fall last Thursday, deputies responded to 210 weather related calls for service.

These calls included 53 injury & non-injury motor vehicle crashes, 63 motorist assist calls, 76 traffic hazards, and numerous welfare checks, abandoned vehicles, agency and person assists

Lamar Advertising and POW Sgt. Bowe R. Bergdahl

Lamar Advertising helps spread word about American POW.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - About two weeks ago I had called Lamar Advertising in York, PA and spoke with Thomas A. Loper, knowing that some other Lamar sales offices throughout the US have been generous enough to donate digital sign board space to help promote the fact that we have a live POW out their that most Americans don't know about.

Sgt Bowe R. Bergdahl has been a POW since June 30, 2009.

Road Closure, Sandbag Location, and Flooding Information in Salem

With the amount of rain forecast and the combined melting snow, there is a possibility of lowland and street flooding later this week

(SALEM) - Current Salem emergency information is available on the City of Salem Emergency page.

Up to one inch of rain is predicted through Wednesday with heavier rains possible later this week. Considering the amount of rain forecast and the combined melting snow, there is a possibility of lowland and street flooding later this week.

Heroin Deaths: Blocked by Marijuana

Marijuana: Safer than Heroin and Opiates

(PORTLAND, OR) - The heroin addictions and deaths have caught the attention of The New York Times and other newspapers on the East Coast.

It is estimated that there are 100,000 heroin addicts in the United States. Most of them are working addicts. Once in a while they get some bad stuff and O.D. and apparently some "off themselves" when they can not get their regular fixes.

UN - From `Complicity with Evil` to `Dancing with Devils`

The UN failed to protect civilians in the last months of Sri Lanka's bloody civil war, a leaked draft of a highly critical internal UN report says.

(NEW YORK) - A massive genocide has taken place in Tamil Eelam (Island of Srilanka) and it still does not have its rightful attention in the international arena.

If Media's role was the biggest learning from the Rwanda's tragedy, it is high time we used this Media in its highest cause, by swerving the International attention towards giving hope to another human soul.

What Ike Feared `Has Come Upon US`

The symbiotic relationship between the U.S. and Israel is especially close in diplomatic interaction between the two nations.

(CHICAGO) - Illinois Congressman Peter Roskam introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress that would defend Israel against any criticism from U.S. academics.

Roskam is responding to the December, 2013 vote of the American Studies Association (ASA) to boycott Israeli academic institutions for their role in the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Is a Policy a Law? Is Murder Murder?

We are shredding the very concept of the rule of law in order to pursue a policy that endangers us.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Under the U.S. Constitution, the laws of the nations in which drone murders take place, treaties to which the U.S. is party, international law, and U.S. statutory law, murdering people remains illegal.

This, despite being policy, just as it was illegal under the less strict policy of some months back.