Today's Mop-Up
Posted by eve at May 4, 2006 09:24 AM
--Kennewick official wants to charge for non-English interpretive services
--Newspaper finds that Benton County sheriff's candidate misrepresented credentials
--Health director says campaign ad on abortion counseling misleading
--Gardiner paper mill set for implosion
Today's hits from the big national dailies:
Los Angeles Times
Minuteman Caravan Gets Testy Send-Off
Protesters in South Los Angeles denounce the group as it launches a U.S. tour promoting stricter border controls.
Anti-Illegal Immigration Forces Roam in Wide Tent
Activists for tighter border controls aren't unified but say they reflect public sentiment.
Seattle Times
Your commute is bad? Try 186 miles each way
If you're howling about paying a lot more to fill up these days, thank your lucky nozzle you're not David Givens of California. Every weekday, Givens drives 372 miles commuting from Mariposa to his job at Cisco Systems in San Jose.
...and from Northwest regional papers.
The Oregonian
Marchers repay lost school time
Immigration - Many schools apply standard attendance policies to students absent Monday without parental OK.
Inquiring minds ask: Can Big Pipe take it?
Do the westside Big Pipe and the eastside Big Pipe sewer and storm-water lines cross any earthquake fault lines? Should we worry?
Salem Statesman Journal
Cigarette-tax supporters seek signatures
A measure would give health care to all younger than 19
Giveaways of book will honor pair's anniversary
Horse, mule at carousel symbolize couple's love
Bend Bulletin
PacifiCorp seeks 13.2% price hike
After a rate increase last year, utility cites desire to upgrade facilities, enhance profits
Bend's familiar west side gets makeover
Three mixed-use developments to reshape area
Eugene Register Guard
Settlement lifts curtain of doubt from McDonald
Geiger Investments, the company that owns the McDonald Theatre in downtown Eugene, on Tuesday caught up on back payments on a $1.76 million loan, putting an end to foreclosure proceedings that would have put the historic structure on the auction block next month.
East Oregonian (subscription only)
Tri City Herald
Official opposes bilingual services
A Kennewick councilman wants to provide English-only city services or start charging residents who need an interpreter.
the Source (Bend's alternative weekly)
Mobile home owners mobilize to protect their rights
Central Oregonian (Prineville)
Madras Pioneer
City, DOC hammer out deal
$13.4 million agreement extends for 26 years
Baker City Herald
Baker and Macy's: An Ideal Match?
Of the Baker City Herald
Blue Mountain Eagle
Happy Birthday, Doc Hay
Birthday celebration for Doc Hay, who would have been 144
3 exit People Mover
Two board members resigned and the office manager for the Grant County Transportation District, known as the People Mover, retired at the end of April. The exits come on the heels of the resignation of two drivers, a driver-dispatcher and the departure of a third driver to a summer job with the Forest Service.
Argus Observer (Ontario)
Payette ponders urban renewal blueprint
Payette has identified a 5-acre parcel of land along South Sixth Street to improve through an urban renewal district.
Corvallis Gazette Times
Burright under exam
Sheriff candidate bought a phony degree, cited credentials he lacked
Lebanon Express updated late morning
School audit reveals both mistrust, hope
An audit of communications at Lebanon High School contained few surprises. At the school and in the community, trust is lacking and communications are dismal.
The Columbian (Vancouver) updated late morning
County deprives inmates of another outlet
Dan Spencer of the county's facilities department displays a locally fabricated electrical box cover plate that officials hope will end inmate tampering. An earlier style proved too easily defeated.
Jail pranksters deal royal flush
Like jimmying with covered electrical boxes, flushing bedclothes down the toilet in order to create mayhem had been a longtime inmate hobby until about two years ago. "We would have to go to the jail on account of flooded toilets at least twice a month, sometimes once a week," said Darrel Stump, the county's facilities manager. The solution was conversion of more than 100 toilets, through a low-voltage system, so they can be flushed only twice an hour regardless of how many times the buttons are pushed.
The Dalles Chronicle
Appeals to challenge Lone Pine project development
Two businesses object to plans for waterfront
The Daily Astorian (most stories subscription only)
County weeds out bad chemicals
Public Works enacts environmentally friendly spray program along county roads
Judge candidate Michael Dooney allowed donation in place of DUII charge in 1999
theworldlink (South Coast)
Gardiner mill set for implosion
Many South Coast residents surely remember the days when the International Paper mill at Gardiner was pumping out paper and smoke. On Saturday, the mill will send up its final cloud as demolition team implodes what's left of it. The last substantial piece is to go down in a pile of rubble on Saturday at 7 a.m. sharp.
Klamath Falls Herald & News
Two Lakeview girls guilty of trying to kill two classmates
Two Lakeview middle school girls are guilty of trying to kill two classmates by putting rat poisoning into their milk cartons, Lake County Circuit Judge Lane Simpson determined Tuesday.
Ashland Daily Tidings
City to keep AFN, dump TV
New director's plan approved by council over purchase bid by Jefferson Public Radio
Roseburg News Review
Health director says campaign ad misleads public
The director of the Douglas County Health Department says a radio campaign ad for Commissioner Dan Van Slyke falsely stated that pregnant women weighing their options were given only information about abortions from county nurses. Peggy Kennerly, Health Department director, said the accusation is false. She said that pregnant women and teenagers seeking information are told about adoption, carrying the baby to term and raising it, as well as abortion.
Medford Mail Tribune
Bad Bone
Alicia Dawes never imagined that a slice of stolen bone would find a home in her neck. The Medford woman had a piece of cadaver bone implanted in her spine to correct a nagging problem last summer, months before investigators discovered improperly harvested bone had been used in thousands of patients across the United States, including a handful in Southern Oregon.
Medford News
Oregon State University Samoa Research Proves Coral Reef Recovery Is Possible
Some long-term research on the vast coral reefs around American Samoa has revealed a success story in efforts to halt destruction of these threatened ecosystems and shown that sustained efforts to rebuild them can be effective.
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