Of great concern, however, should be the proposals for major relocation and reconstruction of the shipping channel to service an LNG terminal, or a major container shipping terminal, or to provide access to Panamax-type vessels.
Read MoreExcellent article re: the Southern Coos Hospital’s attempt to conduct an illegal closed-door meeting. Using the spirit and letter of Oregon’s open-meetings law, you were able to provide the public with information they were fully entitled to, but which the hospital board attempted to conceal.
Read MoreGiven the BOC estimate of “$185,000,000 in government revenue over 10 years”, it appears their estimate is 14 times greater than the one compiled with currently available data.
Read MoreThere is a legislative hearing before the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands scheduled in Washington DC on September 22, 2011. If anyone has seen a legislative environmental impact statement regarding any of the many proposals floating about pertaining to changes in the management of the CBWR and the O&C, please let me know. I must have missed them.
Read MoreThe post-war years saw a great boom in housing starts, and timber prices rose accordingly. The golden era of O&C timber receipts flowing to the counties had begun in a volume that exceeded all prior expectations.
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