From Mail Tribune: A look Back At 1859 Oregon

February 14, 2009
By Paul Fattig - Mail Tribune

TALENT — To hear farmer Wellborn Beeson(Photo Inset) tell it, not much was happening on Feb. 14, 1859.
"It rained last night," he wrote in his diary that day. "I went up the (Wagner) creek and brought the cattle down to turn across Bear Creek tomorrow . . .. I went up to Thomases to get Jenny shod."

Old Valentine's Day cards are on display

Today is not only Oregon's birthday, it's also Valentine's Day. So the Talent Historical Society & Museum is offering a display of old valentine cards, many going back to the 1920s or '30s. They range from homemade cards to commercial ones offering what historian Jan Wright describes as "cheeky" humor in vogue at the time.
One is a 1933 homemade card that Lynn Newbry, a former state senator and current society board member, received from his teacher Floy Young while attending elementary school in Talent.
Another was "To my mommy and daddy from April."
"We got that from our youngest daughter," offered Alice Burnette, 93, a Talent resident for some 75 years, who included several of her old cards in the collection. "She did that when she was around the first or second grade. She is in her 60s now."
The high temperature of the day was 44 degrees; the low 36, he noted.
But nearly three months later — May 4 — found him writing about the belated discovery via newspaper delivered by mail that Oregon had become a state on Feb. 14....For Complete Article Click On Link Below

http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090214/NEWS/902140318

Robert Stricklin To Appeal A Variance And Conditional Use On Jon Englund Project March 9, 2009

CITY OF ASTORIA
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The City of Astoria City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, March 9, 2009 at 7:00 p.m., in the Council Chambers of the Astoria City Hall, at 1095 Duane Street.

The purpose of the hearing is to consider the following Appeal(s):

1. Appeal (AP09-01) by Robert Stricklin of the Astoria Planning....Click On Link Below For Details

http://www.astoria.or.us/LinkClick.aspx?link=Departments%2fCommunity+Development%2f3-9-09+CC+Public+Notice.pdf&tabid=1599&mid=6490&language=en-US

CNN Money:Charter Communications to File Chapter 11

Cable company controlled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen aims to shed $8 billion in debt through bankruptcy filing.

By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: February 12, 2009: 2:31 PM ET

NEW YORK(CNN Money) -- Charter Communications, a provider of cable TV, Internet and other broadband services, said on Thursday that it will file for bankruptcy, as part of a "financial restructuring."

The St. Louis-based company said it planned to reduce its debt by $8 billion as a result of a Chapter 11 filing. The company added it intended to file on or before April 1.....For Complete Article, Click On Link Below

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/12/news/companies/charter_communications/?postversion=2009021214

WSJ:Greenspan Blows It Big On LNG In The U.S.!!

Bad Call
The conventional wisdom said that the U.S. would soon become a big importer of natural gas.

The conventional wisdom blew it.

By RUSSELL GOLD

In the summer of 2003, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appeared before a congressional committee to share his thoughts about the U.S. natural-gas market. It might have been better for the industry, and some investors, had he kept those views to himself.

Recent price spikes, Mr. Greenspan said, were the result of increased demand chasing limited U.S. supplies.

Natural gas heats about half of U.S. homes and generates 20% of the nation's electricity....For Complet Article, Click On Link Below

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123378467642449289.html

Samuelson Votes Against Port's Tongue Point Purchase Loan!

County Commissioner Ann Samuelson was the only dissenting vote on a motion to approve a partial loan of $100,000 towards the purchase of Tongue point by The Port of Astoria at yesterday's Clatsop County Board of Commisioners meeitng.

Samueslon also rapped the knuckles of Port with the mention of The Port's relationship with South County and what The Port does for it which is and has been a sticking point in their relationship for years some would say and still no obvious ground gained at all. Samuelson implies she is a big proponent of Community Building and has stated so in many communiques over her tenure on CCBofC and let's hope at some point actions will prevail over rhetoric.

Samuelson also and rightly so in my view, brought up the issue of the status of the lease with The Port and now, Oregon LNG, at Skipanon Peninsula and that lease's validity. Disregarding the position this conveys on the part of Samuelson as County Commissioner, the confrontation and settlement of this issue is long overdue and if Attorney General Kroger wants to get into the energy frey on behalf of the citizens of Clatsop County and Oregon as well, this is a good candidate to do so, or would it be prudent to get all those legal beagles on retainer with Port and CCBofC, a few working for both?, to do their version of Due Diligence on this issue and present a position to take on making it truly legal or oust OLNG?

Oregonian: Economic Stimulus? Bradwood?

An Economic Stimulus Oregon Could Use
by The Oregonian editorial board

Tuesday February 10, 2009, 4:44 PM

The Oregon Legislature's $175 million job-creation package is small potatoes compared to a potential economic booster shot that state officials seem hell-bent on rejecting. That's the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal at Bradwood Landing and the associated Palomar pipeline. The two projects would inject more than $1.5 billion of private money into Oregon's economy, some eight times what lawmakers seek to borrow for their stimulus program....Click On Link Below For Complete Article


http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/02/an_economic_stimulus_oregon_co.html

Multi-Tenant Non-Profit Centers First Meeting Set

First Meeting 6pm Monday Feb. 16 at Blue Scorcher

“Creating & Operating Multi-Tenant Non-Profit Centers” discussion planned for Monday, February 16th, 6pm, at The Blue Scorcher.
If you are part of a nonprofit organization that would like to explore this way to save on office, display or meeting space costs, then someone from your group should attend this meeting. Representatives of nonprofit organizations from the Clatsop County area will attend a Meyer Memorial Trust meeting on February 24 to learn more about the foundation’s initiative to help communities establish “multi-tenant nonprofit centers."Click On Link Below For More Details


http://clatsopnonprofit.wordpress.com/

Interesting Video Argument On Global Warming. Watch This CCBofC!

This is a video argument local GOP Vice Chair and her CPI buddy, along with Clatsop County Board of Commissioners may wish to watch as a counter to the one sided presentation from Cascade Policy Institute's rep made at a recent meeting

http://www.break.com/index/tough-to-argue.html

Local Republicans Versus Democrats: If Local Websites Are Any Indication, The Republicans Are Outdated And Dead In The Water!

Better get to work GOP, your opponents are active as hell and on the move and then Christine Bridgens as Vice Chair of CCGOP?

Isn't she the one that set up the one sided presentation to CCBofC on Global Warming recently?

Below are the site addresses for both local party organizations, visit and judge for yourself.

And of course the local Democrats are actively involved in all nonpartisan races continuing their strategy to insert their "progressive candidates" and agenda into local politics where possible.

Better start paying attention around here citizens

Clatsop Republicans
Clatsop Democrats

Time:Good News For The Old Media Though!

Time Business And Tech.
The Race for a Better Read
By Josh Quittner Thursday, Feb. 05, 2009

CEO Mary Lou Jepsen designed LCD screens for the $200 laptop used in the One Laptop per Child program.

Related
Technology
TIME's Best Inventions of 2008
Techie Toys
25 Gotta-Have Travel Gadgets

Before old media can charge for our content, we have to figure out how to deliver it in a way the reader thinks is worth paying for. That was easier before the Internet, since reading on paper is a terrific experience. But over the past decade, as more content has shifted online, we've done a great job.....For Complete Story Click On Link Below

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877161,00.html

Time Business And Tech: How To Save Your Newspaper

How to Save Your Newspaper
By Walter Isaacson Thursday, Feb. 05, 2009

Related
Stories
The Race for a Better Read
False Hopes for Internet Profits
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Do Newspapers Have a Future?
The Pay-for-Content Argument

During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions. It is now possible to contemplate a time when some major cities will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network-news operations will employ no more than a handful of reporters.
There is, however, a striking .....Click On Link Below For Story

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html

Israel/Palestine? Exactly "Who" The Hell Is Our Enemy Here?

Who the hell is the enemy here?

A nation who believes that they have a 2000 year old title to a land called Palestine up to the late 1940's or a group of people given the nation by a frustrated British overseer in essence and renamed Israel?

Who do and should we side with?

Up to 1923, Palestine, just plain old Palestine, was the 2000 year old home of Palestinians, not Jews, not Arabs, not Christians, just plain old Palestiniansof all ilks.

Then in 1923, under the directive of the Laegue of Nations, Palestine was put under the protectorate powers(Palestine Mandate) of Great Britian to set up a responsible government in a given territory.

It was clearly understood that the British would help the Jews set up a national home in Palestine afer a British promise in 1917 that this wouls happen.

It all started from this point and up to 1945 then comes the "Zionists"(Jews supporting colonization of Paletsine) versus "The Arab League"(Arab nation backed group to regain their ancestral homeland Palestine).

One reason "The Palestine Question" is such a difficult one is that neither Great Britain or The Ubited States is willing to make enemies of "The Arab League" nations is the vast oil deposits in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other Middle East nations of which the U.S. and Britain are vitally interested in.....Excerpted from The Book Of Knowledge Annual 1947

And it continues today and I still ask: Who the hell is the enemy here and which side should America be loyal to?

Want To Run For Office? Better Get Moving

The May 19, 2009 Special Election is coming up and you need to get going in the process. Click on the link below to go to Clatsop County Elections/Clerk's Office for the list of open poisitons and the process calendar.

May be can elect a few more people willing to serve "The People" instead of some off-radar agenda of their own.

Click Here For Election's/Clerks Office

Clatsop No LNG Action Plan Meeting - February 9, 2009

From: Laurie Caplan

Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:21 PM


Subject: A Thousand Cuts! Monday, Feb. 9 at 6:30

Four years of NO LNG work is working! LNG is losing! Leaping Lizards!

Thanks to meetings, rallies, a Mothers March, lawsuits, letters, lobbying, legislation, demonstrations, voting, raising a ruckus, and more! Our opposition continues to cost LNG promoters credibility, momentum, time, and tons of money.

Help create our NO LNG action plan for 2009.

With enough people, we can do almost anything!

Clatsop NO LNG Action Plan Meeting Monday, February 9 at 6:30 - 8 p.m. Alderbrook Hall - 4509 Lief Erickson Drive at the east end of Astoria

Open to everyone who knows LNG does not belong on the Columbia River. Free screening of “Crossroads on the Columbia” at 7:30 p.m - an inspiring and exciting 20-minute award-winning film co-written and co-produced by Donna Quinn of Astoria.

Clatsop D.A. Josh Marquis: Keep The Oregon State Flag!

Keep The Oregon State Flag
Sunday, February 08, 2009

An idea that is expensive, unnecessary and an insult to a proud and important history.Oregon's 150th birthday is this Valentine's Day, February 14th. Last October, admittedly before the financial crisis in the state and in the nation was acknowledged as the worst since the Great Depression, the Oregonian came up with the idea that, as a birthday gift to ourselves, we Oregonians should re-design our State Flag because, among other things,....For Complete Article Click On Link Below

http://joshmarquis.blogspot.com/