Oregon Appeals Court Rules Against Clatsop County On Bradwood Landing

By: LNG World News from The Daily Astorian, Astoria, Oregon

GRP: And is the leftover Clatsop County Commission that tried to push this project down "The Lower Columbia River's" throat still not listening to a professional county planning staff, that keeps saying no, on the proposed Oregon LNG terminal in Warrenton, Oregon?

A new ruling says Clatsop County was at fault in its handling of the Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas project......Read Full Report

KGW Projects Kitzhaber Win From Multnomah County Vote.

By Frank Mungeam - KGW.com Staff; and AP Staff
kgw.com
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:13 PM
Updated today at 5:39 PM

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Democrat John Kitzhaber is projected to defeat Chris Dudley for governor of Oregon, according to KGW news partner The Oregonian newspaper.

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Clatsop County Community Corrections Director Cora Lane To Depart

Tom Bennett - Clatsop County
Department News Release

Friday, October 29, 2010

COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR CORA LANE TO DEPART

GRP: Is it time to consider merging Community Corrections into The Clatsop County Sheriff's Department?
If "No", why not?
Would it be more cost effective to do so?
Is County Corrections and Transition Center (Offenders serving jail sanctions or sentenced to 12 months or less under oversight of the Local Supervisory Authority (made up of both the Sheriff and the Community Corrections Director)) earning it's way or operating in a deficit?

Cora Lane, director of Clatsop County Community Corrections and 34-year county employee, is departing from her post effective Dec. 1, 2010.

Lane first joined Clatsop County in May 1976 as a clerk/typist in the Assessor’s Office. During her subsequent career with the county she served as a civil process server, animal control officer and parole and probation officer. In January 2006 she was promoted to Community Corrections director.

“We commend Cora for her years of dedicated service to Clatsop County and wish her well,” County Manager Duane Cole said.

Lane will assist in the leadership transition in the department, which will likely involve the appointment of an interim director in the short term, Cole said.

Community Corrections supervises adult criminal offenders who have been sentenced to probation or released to post-prison supervisions from a correctional facility. Supervision is handled through a number of various programs, including substance abuse treatment, sex offender and domestic violence programs, social re-education and life skills, drug court and electronic house arrest. The department also runs the 30-bed Transition Center residential facility in Warrenton.

Cole said the department will maintain all services during the transition, depending on funding from the State of Oregon. The county is working to ensure that Community Corrections, which is primarily funded through the state, continues to serve the county in the event of future state funding cuts, he said.

San Bruno Explosion Should Be Final Nail In LNG Coffin

Posted Oct. 28, 2010, 12:43:00 pm

Santa Monica Mirror Archives - Thomas B. Elias, Columnist
There is no doubt that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has acted at least somewhat more responsibly in the wake of the September natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno than BP, the former British Petroleum, did after its springtime offshore oil platform disaster in the Gulf of Mexico....Read Full Tom Elias Report

Clatsop County Board Of Commissioners Approve ONLG Pipeline Application With Modifications

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What Is The Tea Party?

October 22, 2010 4:13 PM

David Sirota - COLUMNIST Gazette.com

What is the tea party? Many have tried to answer that question ever since CNBC’s Rick Santelli first launched the backlash with his trading-floor rant against the poor......Read Full Report

Another Perspective

U.S. House Candidate Rob Cornilles: Former Trainees Critical Of his Sports Marketing Business Ethic

Former trainees blast congressional hopeful
Rob Cornilles, the GOP candidate in the 1st District, paid $9,000 in 2003 settlement related to his sports marketing business
By Christian Gaston - The Forest Grove News-Times, Oct 20, 2010

Since he filed to run for Congress in 2009, Tualatin businessman Rob Cornilles has touted his ability to find jobs for young people in the field of sports marketing as a qualification for office.....Read Full Article

From The Daily Astorian: State Senator Betsy Johnson and House Rep. Debbie Boone Take Exception To Advert Run By 2 "Tea Party" Backed Candidates!

At left is an ad run in The Daily Astorian by two "Tea Party" backed candidates, Lew Barnes and Bob Horning, running for two seats in the Oregon State Legislature now occupied by State Senator District 16, Betsy Johnson and House District 31 Represesentative, Debbie Boone.

Click on ad at left to read its content.

Click This To Read Full Daily "A" Report

For insight into Lewis Barnes campaign finance activity, click on this to go to ORESTAR

For even more interesting insight into Bob Horning's campaign finance activity, click her to go to Horning's ORESTAR account

Oregon DEQ Sets Ground Rules For West-East Demolition And Trading's Shipbreaking Operation At North Tongue Point

Oregon DEQ NW Regional Adninistrator, Nina DeConcini, on October 18, 2010 issued a letter with conditions to Exec. Port Director, Jack Crider regarding the West-East Demolition and Trading, LLC. Click on each of the two page DEQ Requirement Letter to peruse the full content.

Oregon-Washington Re-Open Columbia Chinook Fishing Season From October 15 to December 31, 2010

Oct-14-2010 22:27

Chinook, Coho And Steelhead Fishing 88 Miles From Bouy 10 To Mouth Of The Lewis River

Salem-News.com

(CLACKAMAS, Ore.) - Chinook salmon fishing will reopen on the lower Columbia River downstream of the Lewis River from Oct. 15 through the end of the year.
In a joint hearing this week, the Oregon and Washington departments of fish and wildlife decided to reopen recreational chinook salmon fishing on the Columbia from Buoy 10 upstream approximately 88 miles to the mouth of the Lewis River.

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Coos Bay's Pacific Connector Pipeline Project Meets Reisistance And Bleak Future Outlook!

Pipeline project facing hurdles
Oct. 11, 2010, 12:45 p.m. PDT
The Register-Guard - AP/Oregonlive.com

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — To read the headlines, September was a bad month for supporters of a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos Bay and a pipeline from there to the Southeastern Oregon town of Malin......Read Full Oregonlive report

Topix:Astoria Citizen Sound-Off - Who You Gonna Vote For In Oregon In 2010?

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Natural Gas Pipeline Crisis Plans Kept From Public?

Govt lacks copies of emergency response plans developed by natural gas pipeline operators.

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Think Our Financial Crisis Is Unique In Our History?

GRP:It's as if the "Obama Machine" used this as the model for their own script for our current crisis. Temporary "Hope" that soon faded and then the prelude and build-up to World War.

The nation needed immediate relief, recovery from economic collapse, and reform to avoid future depressions, so relief, recovery and reform became Franklin D. Roosevelt's goals when he took the helm as president. At his side stood a Democratic Congress, prepared to enact the measures carved out by a group of his closest advisors — dubbed the “Brain Trust” by reporters. One recurring theme in the recovery plan was Roosevelt’s pledge to help the “forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”

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PG&E:How To Rack Up $100 Million In Clean Air Act Fines

How to rack up $100 million in Clean Air Act fines
October 7, 2010 11:55 AM

By Cassandra Profita - Ecotrope/Oregon Public Broadcasting

PGE's Boardman power plant has been accused of operating in violation of the Clean Air Act since 1998.
Did anyone else’s jaw drop when they heard the potential fines for the Portland General Electric’s alleged Clean Air Act violation at the Boardman coal-fired power plant?

Read OPB's Full Cassandra Profita Report On Ocotrope

The Peacock: A Witness To Another Piece Of Our History And A Mechanical Ballet

The Peacock headed for its final resting place after 10 years in storage. What a piece of history to watch and what a ballet of all those involved for this new gateway feature to our fine city of Astoria.

Want To Vote In Clatsop County....Oregon On November 2nd? October 12th Is Your Last Day To Register!!!

VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS OCT. 12

Tuesday, Oct. 12 is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 2 general election for anyone not currently registered in the State of Oregon.
If you are registered in Oregon, but have changed your name, party affiliation or address, you must update your registration. People have until 8 p.m. on Election Day to update their registration and receive a ballot.
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From Oregonlive.com: The Kitzhaber - Dudley Debate Video

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Chinook Nation Greets Lady Washington And Hawaiian Chieftan In Trade Re-Enactment October 3, 2010

Aberdeen – The brig Lady Washington, the Official Ship of the State of Washington, and the topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain will participate in a re-enactment of an 18th century fur trade meeting at Fort Columbia State Park on Sunday, October 3. The vessels will rendezvous with as many as 40 Chinook Nation paddlers in the Columbia River offshore of the park, which is just south of the town of Chinook on US Highway 101. The event is scheduled to take place 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.....Read Details and view photos

Fatal Pipeline Explosion Puts Focus On Web Of Gas Pipelines

By Matthew Cardinale - IPS News

"It's a 36-inch [thick] pipeline with non-odorised gas at a pressure that is seven times the San Bruno pipeline that exploded earlier this month," Olivia Schmidt, a community organiser with the Anti-LNG Coalition, told IPS. "When they [citizens of Oregon] learned about this horrible tragedy in the Bay Area, it heightened concerns already there about public safety," Schmidt said.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 30, 2010 (IPS) - A natural gas explosion in San Bruno, California that almost decimated an entire city earlier this month has fuelled concerns about the outdated, aging, and dangerous gas pipelines that underlie many U.S. cities......Read Full Report