HWylie's comments:

on Going Annual?

1. No $25+ billion a year company can effectively be managed every other year.

2. Our legislature is made up of a bunch of minimum wage employees who can afford to take the jobs and are not dependent on them.

3. We need to pay our legislature good salaries and make the sessions full time.  This will put them on an equal standing with the other bodies of government.   Higher salaries will not even show up / effect the overall budget.  

posted 2 years, 3 months ago
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on Raising Revenue: Corps and Brews

This is a classic case where the State needs to look at the organization regulating and operating the liquor retail sales industry in Oregon, OLCC.  The agency is not neccesary  and  should be shut down with the savings going to support the rehab programs that the beer tax increase will be paying for.   Oregon needs to get out of the distribution and liquor store business and move into a privately held marketplace with a direct tax on all wholesale liquor distributors that is equivalent to existing tax rates.   Shutting down OLCC would free up over 90% of their budget.  Other non-state-store states live with this solution quite effectively. 

posted 3 years, 2 months ago
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on TOL Hosts Special Event on Higher Education

PSU and U of O are the only universities in Oregon preparing Speech and Language Therapists for the work force demands in our State. Both univeristies graduate more undergraduate students in the program than are admitted to their respective masters program which are limited to less than 30 students per year. Employers in hospitals, rehab centers, nursing homes, schools and preschools are facing great challenges as our work force is retiring and we are unable to find find replacements. In addition I understand that both universities declined a significant amount of incentive funds from the Oregon Legislature to expand their programs. My questions are: What are the barriers to expanding these programs throughout the state? and Why do the univeristies refuse to offer Speech and Language Degress sufficient to meet the legally mandated demands of the State's public and private institutions?

posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on Message in a Bottle

I believe that redemption centers should located at stores is a good idea since this is the source of all the material. The problem is the stores take only what they sell and the cans and bottles have to be in pristine condition because the stores want the marketing information supplied by the machines. What needs to be done is materials should be seperated and shredded regardless of the containers' condition. The weaway.ight of the shredded material would be the basis of the charge and associated refund. This would grossly simplify the materials handling and disposal by a commercial recycler. I live in the country with the closest store 8 miles

posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on An Internet Speed Limit?

City of Independence provides 5 mBytes = 40Mbits per second as a basic service. Not 5 mbits.

posted 4 years, 1 month ago
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on Are You Down With LNG?

The arguements that make Oregon into California's "energy delivery service" ignore what occurs throughgout our nation. California is our food delivery service, do we complain about that. Bonneville Power Administration benefits the Northwest with low power cost and supplies power to California. Should we cut California off.

The speaker on the radio that said "having tankers in the river churns it up and destroys salmon via propellers and ballast filling requirements" is very uninformed. Compare those activites to volume of other existing ship traffic, dredging activities and the dams.

posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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