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Salem-News.com (July 03,2008 09:00)Depression in U.S. is Looming: What are People Going to Do?Tim King Salem-News.comWhat would John Steinbeck think? (SALEM, Ore.) - 4 - Comments 
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Salem-News.com (July 03,2008 02:19)Salem-News.com Announces New Online Oregon Comic StripSalem-News.comSalem-News.com artist Glen Bledsoe, AKA "Leonardo", releases new original comic strip, celebrates 100 editions of 'Nota Bene'. (SALEM, Ore.) - 0 - Comments
Salem-News.com (July 02,2008 10:19) Fighting Back Against the Costly Methods Used by Police (VIDEO)Tim King Salem-News.comNew technology from one Oregon company aids drivers against photo red light cameras and speed traps. (PORTLAND, Ore.) - 2 - Comments
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Salem-News.com (June 28,2008 15:09)Time to Take Down Zimbabwe`s Robert MugabePolitical Perspective by Tim King Salem-News.comThe United States calls foul, the British government allows the killer's henchmen to open bank accounts, and the UN is more than tolerant. So much for the war against terrorism. (SALEM, Ore.) - 2 - Comments
Salem-News.com (June 27,2008 23:45) Op Ed: OUR Constitution: By Henry Clay Ruark for Salem-News.com |
Stock Market Drops to Lowest June Numbers Since Great Depression
Political Perspective by Tim King Salem-News.comOutdated laws and practices mean America will see black marketeers take far less of a hit than the average citizen relying on traditional means like credit cards to help them through the hard times.
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It is sure going to be interesting to watch what happens in this country over the next few years. Stocks on Wall Street tumbled today, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its worst June since the Great Depression. Record oil prices, credit-market writedowns and a slowing economy increase the likelihood of a yearlong profit slump.
Americans have allowed corporate business to completely undermine the nation's economy, and our slow progress at turning toward natural and renewable sources of energy are likely to haunt us for many years to come.
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`Truly-Open Election`
Challenges Our Nation
As Never Possible Before
By Henry Clay Ruark for Salem-News.com"Liberal" vs "Conservative" truths at stake, demand honest, open, inevitable comparisons.
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"A pox on both those failed parties!" may well turn out to be the famous-theme of this 2008 voter-choice struggle. "Failed choices" from both Democratic and GOP sides have dominated the past 50 years, forcing us all into permanent campaign-posture confrontation; precluding progress to what millions keep SAYING they want and, now MUST HAVE, as the 21st Century arrives.
That’s the open-for-action situation confronting the voters in this ostensibly once-democracy, in 2008. It rests firmly on the highly apparent failures of both "liberal" and "conservative" traditions once thought to be essential guiding beacons for the American nation.
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The New Deal Still a Good Deal
By Juan Carlos Ordóñez/OCPP for Salem-News.comCritics often deride the New Deal by contending that it took World War II to pull the country out of the Great Depression. But that argument ignores that the New Deal set the stage for shared prosperity.
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The bronze statue atop the Oregon Capitol celebrates the pioneer era, but the building itself is a testament to the New Deal's Public Works Administration, born 75 years ago this month in the midst of the Great Depression. The New Deal also bequeathed to Oregon many other superb structures, including Mt. Hood's Timberline Lodge and the Yaquina Bay Bridge. But all of them pale in comparison to the New Deal's greatest creation: a broad middle-class society.
No blueprint existed when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set out to rebuild the nation after its economic collapse. Yet legislation enacted over the course of several years laid the foundation for an economy in which the fruits of prosperity were widely shared.
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Kucinich`s Articles of Impeachment: A Three-Part Guide
By Elizabeth de la Vega / The Public Record for Salem-News.comMore details on the move by Congressman Dennis Kucinich to Impeach George W. Bush.
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It is entirely possible to be a reasonably well-informed citizen of the United States and not know that on June 9th 2008, Representative Dennis Kucinich (D. Ohio) took to the floor of the House of Representatives and spent over four hours reading thirty-five Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush.
Even worse, it is not merely possible, but likely, that the vast majority of people who have been more than willing to ignore or ridicule those charges have not read them. Or, if they have read them, they have found the allegations and citations so overwhelming they just switch off their minds.
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Bush Changes Position, G.I. Bill Now Moving Toward Full Acceptance
Tim King Salem-News.comBush is known for hanging onto his bad policies and decisions with a death grip. But in this unusual reversal of opinion, he withdrew his long-held objections to a new G.I. Bill that would adequately fund the cost of a public college education for today's veterans.
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The Bush Administration has abandoned its determined efforts to block and veto the implementation of a new G.I. Bill that would aid Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Bush was unflinching in his position earlier; saying the bill that would have allowed veterans to attend college was just too expensive. It was nearly perverse when considering the sacrifice these men have exhibited in the present conflicts overseas.
It all came down two days ago, on June 18th, when a critical agreement was reached between leadership in the House of Representatives and the White House on the fate of the war funding bill. Bush's threat to veto the bill to help veterans was ever present until this new development.
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NW Energy Experts Say it`s Time to Run, Not Walk, Toward a New Era in Energy Efficiency
Salem-News.com"We face a rapidly changing energy landscape. The cost of alternative generating resources, like wind power, is rising" - Steve Wright, BPA administrator
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The newly formed Northwest Energy Efficiency Taskforce held its kickoff meeting Wednesday and underscored that the Pacific Northwest can't start soon enough to add to the region's impressive energy-efficiency improvements of the last two decades.
They say that by accelerating efforts to tap the vast potential of electric power efficiency, the region will further reduce demand for power, improve environmental quality, and lower costs for consumers who face the seemingly never-ending escalation of fuel costs, leaders of the effort agreed.
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Venezuela`s Hugo Chavez Tells FARC Revolutionaries the `Guerrilla War is History`
Tim King Salem-News.comHugo Chavez says it is time for the Revolutionary guerrillas in Columbia to cool their heels and end their reign.
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He still has his share of critics, but Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is removing obstacles that he believes could eventually be used as a reason for a preemptive strike against his country.
It is a smart move that takes political weapons out of the hands of his enemies. Iran may not be safe from the war desires of George W. Bush, but neither is Venezuela.
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Oregon Corporation and Its President Sentenced for Hazardous Waste Violations
Salem-News.comFormer Engineer Indicted for Obstruction of Justice.
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Spencer Environmental Incorporated (SEI) and its president, Donald M. Spencer, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Haggerty for the District of Oregon, the Justice Department announced. In a related matter, SEI's former engineer, Durbin Hartel, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for obstruction of justice and lying to investigators.
SEI and Spencer admitted to three felony violations of hazardous waste laws of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) on Oct. 12th 2007. The court sentenced SEI today to pay $150,000. Of this amount, $75,000 will fund various environmental projects in Oregon administered by the congressionally established National Fish and Wildlife Fund (NFWF) through the Oregon Governor's Fund for the Environment.
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Rosstown Arteries at the Heart of Upgrading a Modern Salem
By Barry-Lee Coyne for Salem-News.comAre Salem streets ready for the traffic of the future?
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By the end of this decade, Salem OR is certain to be transformed. At the heart of the issue, however, is whether traffic impact will keep pace with the burgeoning urban sprawl.
We read the daily papers and we discern the following:
The huge 13-acre Boise Cascade site is being primed for redevelopment; Willamette University is adding a downtown building to its campus; The old McMahan site on Court St. has been razed for a new complex; Oregon State Hospital will be retrofitted for a new patient generation; Some three possible sites are being weighed for a new Willamette span.
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Low-Income Advocates Support Whitehouse on Climate Change
Salem-News.comThe OCPP says that without adequate protections such as those proposed by the Whitehouse amendment, carbon emissions controls could increase the hardship faced by low-income families,
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Legislation proposed by Rhode Island U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse capping carbon emissions can protect low-income Oregonians while fighting global warming, advocates told Oregon's U.S. Senators Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden today in a letter presented prior to a vote on the issue.
The letter from the Oregon Center for Public Policy urged the Oregon senators to support the Whitehouse amendment to the Climate Security Act of 2008. Also known as Lieberman-Warner, the Climate Security Act would cap carbon emissions.
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Oregon`s Family Forestland Owners Face Numerous Challenges
Salem-News.comNearly half the owners are over 65, and many families and heirs have joined the migration to urban centers.
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Inheriting the family farm or woodland has been a traditional expectation in Oregon's culture over the past 150 years. The formula was simple: A generation would tend to an agricultural or small forest tract with the assumption that subsequent generations would continue stewardship of the land.
But much has changed in Oregon's culture in the past few decades. The survival of family-owned forests – some of the most visible forestlands in the state - looks uncertain.
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