Most of us recall the almost $500K single source expenditures made to Tech Heads on behalf of the IT department during Kevin Stufflebean’s term as commissioner. The accompanying claims and promises that these expenditures...
Read MoreWow, the Port and local economic development blow through $300 million since 2003 in the name of job creation and unemployment still increases by 50% and they want to investigate the local food bank.
Read MorePerhaps Main, now completing his third year, might recall that Randy Sanne started appearing at commissioner meetings a full three years ago when Nikki and Kevin were still up there. At that point running for the position of commissioner had not yet entered his head. He just knew that numerous issues needed to be addressed and not enough people were doing it.
Read MoreThe county has been managing its own timber property and supporting the government services for a long time, why not just buy more land and add to its inventory to increase revenue?
Read MoreIf Messerle and Parry feel unequal to the task there were other more qualified applicants who recognize the significant difference between running a business and running a government. Better that than a bunch of nattering committees hanging out while our government is trying to get things done.
Read MoreWhile Parry and Main may be able to see past some negative characteristics, considering we all have them, many of these people chosen, from the two selection committees to the industrial acquisition team have clear, hard right political perspectives. This should cause those of us with differing ideological views to question just how sincere they are about working with disparate groups.
Read MoreIn the end, it all boils down to public participation and public participation is hugely dependent upon a real press doing their job to properly inform the public. Consequently, in Coos County, at least, it probably doesn’t matter what form of governance we use, the public is going to be left out of the process.
Read MoreCam Parry definitely exudes energy and enthusiasm and offers lots of interesting ideas. Hopefully we can all work together to implement some of those ideas and build a foundation that embraces input from a diverse group as recommended by the SDAT final report.
Read Morethere is the intangible benefit of helping correct a terrible wrong perpetrated by an incompetent commissioner who arrogantly believed he could double
Read MoreThe County may see its last O&C (Oregon and California) federal timber payments this September, after decades of payments made to offset the loss from not cutting trees in areas with threatened species.
Read More“When Commissioner Stufflebean put this out to the public, the board as a body had not discussed the proposed lease, nor had the board as a body discussed the lease with our attorneys before it was made public,
Read MoreNo mineral lease was signed at tonight’s packed BOC meeting, (although who actually called for the meeting remains a mystery). The board held an executive meeting leaving the crowd of more than one hundred waiting without explanation for almost an hour.
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