by Wim de Vriend | May 2, 2013 | Coos County, Oregon
Editors note: They say a few bad apples can spoil the whole barrel, or pot, and a tight chamber cabal of fifteen or twenty people is tarnishing the chamber’s reputation by the use of its bullying and intimidation tactics, (some witnessed on this very blog). The...
by Wim de Vriend | Apr 28, 2013 | Coos County, Oregon
“All we need is the right man,” sighed my bar customer, in a semi-confident wrap-up of his side of the conversation. “The right man, who has the connections and who knows how to bring in new businesses!” And with that he got up to leave, an unspoken confirmation that...
by Wim de Vriend | Apr 19, 2013 | Coos County, Oregon
Back in the early eighties, when The World still made sporadic efforts to find the truth in public affairs, that paper published an investigative article about Marvin Judd, who had just resigned as President of Canasia Coal. In his Presidential capacity Judd had...
by Wim de Vriend | Apr 10, 2013 | Coos County, Oregon
WANTED: IDENTIFICATION OF LNG ROGUE GALLERY “This is a Private Meeting.” I’m driving to the restaurant about 9 Wednesday morning when I spot a dozen anti-LNG protesters waving their signs around the Tourist Info/SCDC office in downtown Coos Bay. Now it comes back to...
by Wim de Vriend | Feb 15, 2013 | Coos County, Oregon
“Every person has a right to inspect any public record of a public body in this state, except as otherwise expressly provided . . . ” Those are the words of Oregon’s Public Records Law, and they sound simple enough: “every person” has the right to see a public...
