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I am listening to the interview between Couric and PP President Richards. She states that they will not longer receive money 'over and above our costs'. In fact, admitting they were indeed selling- ie: making a profit. I have watched a portion of the videos, at least as much as my soul could allow. These are damning. Charged with fraud? PP is a multi-billion dollar business, abortion is a multi-billion business.

You are repeating lies and you ought to know that you are repeating lies. The cretins who fabricated the baby parts video have been charged with fraud and outright lying. But you already know that, don't you?

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"No cause," not "no clause." A "clause" is a term for a statement in the contract; a "cause" is what precipitates an action. In this context, it's important.

This article is a mess. You start out with a sob story about Finney going on about not knowing why she got a no cause eviction. Then you jump around for a way on other bits before jumping back to Finney and quoting the building owner "says the tenants' departure was necessary to clean up the mold", then jumping around and mentioning about owner refiling the eviction. What is going on? Is Finney getting a no clause eviction or not? Do we not know the clause or is it the mold?

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Wars have specific definitions. Having dozens or hundreds of advisors and operatives in a country is not a war. Again, Obama ended 2 wars. He has withstood tremendous pressure from Republicans to invade Syria/Iran. I wonder how you'd feel if Romney had won and we now were in a shooting war in both of those countries? "The enemy of the good is the perfect." Imagine if Obama completely stopped all military operations in that zone and we suffered a terrorist attack. I wonder what your words would say, then?

So the Seal who was killed last week in Iraq was after the war ended? The dead coming home from Afghanistan are traffic accidents?

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Indeed.

Trump's use of Twitter is a formidable weapon. At home and on the world stage. This is his genius -- his evil genius. How to manipulate public opinion. He first started it with the New York tabloids in the '80s when he used their front pages to push his agendas. Now, decades later, he uses social media like a puppeteer, convincing various factions to dance to his wants. If May didn't call him out on the Tweet, Brits might say she was intimidated by him, or that maybe Trump is correct. Call the bully out, that's the only way.

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If I'm borrowing your car, and some guy comes along who loves that car and offers you 5x what you paid, do I just have the right to keep your car indefinitely because it's somehow "mine" by virtue of having borrowed it initially? Even if I gas it up and run it through the car wash to keep it nice, it's still your car. The basic protection is already there - the rental contract. The owner can't kick you out during the term of the contract. There is not anything in Oregon law that prevents a longer-term lease if you can negotiate it.

It's easy to say that until it happens to YOU. Loyal tenants being put out on the street because some faceless developer from NY snatches an apt. out from under them, flip it, and rent to invaders from CA is scandalous, to put it nicely. Asking for basic protections, or just a legit reason for why one is being evicted is not too much to ask.

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Did you go? Anything interesting at the meeting?

I believe this limit may possibly increase once the "medible rush" mellows out, no pun intended. I'm guessing the state wants to avoid low tolerance users being floored by medical strength edibles, and dealing with the backlash of the media pointing fingers at the state for people getting too intoxicated. However, I really believe the state needs more input from the public, and anyone can take part in the rule hearings for the proposed rules and regulations... The next meeting is May 25th! "Rule Hearings are held at OLCC's main office, located at 9079 S.E. McLoughlin Blvd., in Portland. The capacity limit for this meeting room is 100, with entry granted on a first come, first served basis." I work in the industry and really urge people to take advantage of public hearings. Have your voice be heard on this matter. For more info, see: http://www.oregon.gov/olcc/marijuana/Documents/Rules/OLCC_NoticeofPublicHearing_RecreationalMarijuana.pdf

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"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?" Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988) "You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how." Joseph Stalin Athenian Democracy: " A system of direct democracy, in which participating citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills. Participation was not open to all residents: to vote one had to be an adult, male citizen who owned land and was not a slave, and the number of these "varied between 30,000 and 50,000 out of a total population of around 250,000 to 300,000." Other than the direct legislation and executive bills, sounds like the US in 1789 and Oregon 1856.

Motley: You raise a very interesting philosophical question which is central to our democracy. We have egalitarian democracy with each person's vote counting the same. As a liberal/progressive, I believe in the innate fairness of such a system. However, I, at the same time, acknowledge that it may lead to what some might call "the lowest common denominator" democracy. I don't know what system would be preferable. Have you some ideas? This, at the abstract level and avoiding partisan bickering, is really an interesting issue. I'd enjoy discussing it with you. regards, Gary

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So?

My point was that the issue of Joseph Boyden is not a "hullabaloo" as he described. Perhaps in certain circles people may be talking about this issue but across the board people are not; thus my point about a random survey.

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What's okay in the Bible? Lets start with slavery, rape marriages, genocide, and child sacrifices. But I've just invented a new game. We all pick up a bible, open it at random, and do whatever it says there. Last one in jail wins.

I don't think you are qualified to talk for "Their God", or decide what OK in the Bible.

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I make it myself...

"organic" is the greatest consumer fraud in America today, and is backed by laughable pseudo science that makes the tobacco industry proud.

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And you probably think it is ok to lightly beat women.

Awwwww Trump babies can dish it out but they cant take it . I cant wait till Trump is laid out behind the school with the rest of his racist minions in November

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And that is the typical liberal mantra. Agree with me or be censored. Words have meanings, and to accurately use a word is not hate. Genitalia is the determining factor in sex, orientation is not. I am not familiar with the numbers you quote for the abused. I don't say its not true, just that a link would be helpful. But there are other factors that effect this particular illness that hate. It is a mental disorder, and those like yourself who prefer acceptance over treatment are without doubt a contributing factor. You, with your big heart are literally going to force tens, if not hundreds of millions of people to accept this illness regardless of what they know (or just believe) to be right. That my friend, is a recipe for disaster.

Who ever monitors comments flagged as hateful or abusive is not doing a very good job. If you are not well enough informed about the topic to discern hateful commentary from the simply ignorant maybe ADN needs to find someone who can. Repeatedly missgendering and claiming that a trans person is just "a boy pretending to be a girl" or vice versa is hateful and abusive. We are not trading opinions on which is better pistachio or chocolate ice cream we are talking about a topic that regularly results in bloodshed, 25 trans women murdered last year for nothing more than existing hundreds more assaulted and an unknowable number lost to suicide because of structural abuse like the kind found in the poor handling of comments like these. If the ADN is going to capitalize on the current interest in trans issues it has a resposibility to provide some education and context to these stories and comments.

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Seems to me the liberal government when in power in the years past on the east coast tried that approach, build large apartment blocks for people to live in, gave lots of welfare dollars to live on, now they are all run down slums, drug infested, gang infested, most of the good and honest people don't have any choice but to live there, exposing their children to the lifestyle that will continue to breed more and more of the same, is that your answer Clayton, there are lots of answers to the problem but no one seems to have the intestinal fortitude to implement them.

Our problem is similar to the homeless problems nationally: Mentally ill, substance addicted, rural in-migrants & under-educated chronically unemployable are the bulk of our park dwellers & homeless. Some are decades old cases who have either been ignored, cast aside or have avoided treatment by appropriate agencies. Others are- sadly - new youth with only older homeless as daily role models. I support rapid response by community service patrols/police to clear the parks - for at least moments at a time. But CHANGE takes a larger perspective. I'd prefer to see minimal-cost, sponsored & "controlled" year-round homeless camping areas in our City - jointly managed by the Muni and by the homeless themselves. Provision of a scheduled mobile meal-prep/delivery van; lease-purchase of a mobile military/emergency services showering unit; use of an on-site motor home as a center for various social services personnel to "do their thing"- ALL could begin profound improvements to our situation.

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The heck with that. The borough should seize the Imig's property.

I think the borough should assess Imig's property in Willow at the estimated cost of the damage to others property and homes.

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The Repubs are doing a great job? Really by what measure? Lost jobs? Lost revenue? Deficits? LIO?

HAHAHAHAH thats funny! Walker IS gov, Parnell was and is no more. Walker is the guy who is trying, and failing to fix it. The repubs are not doing a great job, but Walker and his democrats are failing at every turn. Cut spending, once we actually reduce spending by 20% or so we can start talking tax. But remember, it is not a $4 billion deficit, it $4 billion ANNUAL deficit.

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Nationwide, there seems to be a lot of that attitude. Some to Trumps' advantage; some to Hillary's advantage. Who is hated the worst and who is going to actually show up to vote either way in November? Democrats, Republicans, Independents? Those voting In Favor of either Trump or Hillary seem to be pretty thin on the ground if the polls are to be believed. Where one of 16 other candidates was supposed to be the Republican nominee and Hillary was supposed to be anointed months ago, the polls and pundits seem to be having a bad year. We still have almost five months. That's forever in political land.

I'm voting for The Donald.....not because he is an ideal candidate..... But because the other two options would be worse.

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I agree, that is one of the things that makes Trump dangerous and frightening. Trump and Clinton are very different, and the problems with each of them are likewise mostly different. In no way do I think they are clones of each other. My opinion is that they are both terrible for this nation (for largely different reasons) and I don't see how one is more than marginally better than the other in the big picture.

I'm no fan of Hillary Clinton, nor of the massive impact of corporate power and militarism. But equivalency between Clinton and Trump does not hold. The centerpiece of Trump's campaign is racism, fear and anger toward people who hold little power. The centerpiece of his candidacy is a call to follow him in a campaign of angry hatred toward those "others". This is what makes Trump so dangerous and frightening. This is what makes Trump different.

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I can hardly wait for President Trump to sit down in the Oval Office, whip out his gold pen, and reverse all the damage Barack Hussein Obama has wreaked on America. Viva President Trump!

Mr. Trump is a) a Snake Oil salesman and/or b) a faith-healer. He has brought his skills to the political arena and it's working. Don't waste your time trying to understand his "positions" on the crucial issues of today. Don't bother trying to understand what "Make America Great Again" means. Mr. Trump isn't selling substance, he's selling faith. He's selling his followers the belief that his Trump Elixor is the panacea for all that ails our country. His appeal is visceral, not intellectual. His message is emotional, not rational. He's offering voters the opportunity to "kick the dog" of today's politics; to vent the frustration and angst they might hold. He offers the opportunity for his followers to "get back" at whomever they feel caused their disaffection He sells charisma....the faith that he and his secret elixor will work to "Make America Great Again". Details? "I don't need no stinkin' details....I'll take care of those after I'm elected" He's a scary man.....

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Fair enough. But if a trooper or firefighter thinks that the situation they're responding to is particularly hazardous, they can usually call in backup or use different tactics. Doesn't mean that they're always successful or can foresee every eventuality, but they do have some options. When you got on a small plane you had to make a judgement call on things you had little knowledge of. Is the pilot competent? How can you tell? Has the plane had its required maintenance by a qualified mechanic? How would you know? Is the pass you have to go through 100 miles away socked in? How would you know. Not trying to equate what you did with a public safety provider. But your point that you controlled your destiny in those circumstances is weak at best.

Let me clarify this issue, if you will. I worked for the state for two decades, and my work required flying around much of it in a small plane. More dangerous than your average highway commute, for sure. But here's the thing: If I didn't like the looks of the weather, or the capability of the pilot, or the condition of the plane, I could just say no. And I did. Do it another day, when conditions are more in my favor. Every single day that they go to work, police and firemen risk death. They don't get to defer to better conditions. That's the difference.

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Typing in all caps is the same as shouting. Please stop shouting.

THIS SUMS IT UP! ...."Alaska's tax regime and its heavy dependance on oil revenue are so unusual that such comparisons are not particularly useful, said Walter Hellerstein, a tax law professor at University of Georgia." STOP HB 247 AND THE PANIC! ALASKA OIL PRODUCERS GAVE MOST THE $8.2 BILLION IN CBR SAVINGS, PAY THE DEFICIT NOW & GO HOME PLEASE! THE CREDITS ARE WORKING JUST LOOK AT TH GIANT PIKKA AND COSMO OIL DISCOVERIES!! OIL PRICES ARE GOING BACK UP, ON FEB 4, 2016 OIL WAS AT $ 27.00 now it is going back up fast on it's way to $100.00 NOW AT $50.000 DOLLARS PER BARREL! ALMOST A 50% INCREASE IN A FEW MONTHS! NEXT SESSION OIL WILL BE OVER $100.00 I BELIEVE!

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Your posts don't bother me, Donkel! From the ridiculous, scary, baseless hyperbole to the UNNECESSARY CAPITALIZATION, I THINK you should KEEP ON DOING what you're DOING.

The definition of shouting has alway been a voice issue and a loudness thing! This is a new definition and rule, made by who? I am just doing what others do like J.Frank Parnell do to express strong points, I like it when he does it. He is communicating better with me! Should I tell him to not type in capitals anymore! It does not hurt my ears or anything else, I am confused! I will try to conform to your wishes and refrain from typing with emphasis using "caps" that is now defined as " shouting"! Should people stop shouting at ball games too? Sometimes I like shouting, so should I stop shouting when I feel the need to shout?

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Yes I see what is happening in Venezuela. They nationalized their oil industry and incurred the wrath of the oilagarchy, same for Brazil. Don't like socialism? How about that Social Security check you keep cashing? Use public roads much? Ever call the fire department? Ever had to foot the bill for medical insurance by yourself? I have friends who were born and raised here and have since moved to one of those socialist nordic countries and they wouldn't think of coming back here to live. Have you looked at the Scandinavian model of socialism? How about those Libertarian free market models foisted on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Sudan.....at the barrel of a gun? How's that free market thing working in Alaska these days? You may be liking the status quo but I'm ready for a change.

Have you noticed what is happening in the socialist Utopia if Venezuela?

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Is that a problem of the trade pact, or of American tax law? For that matter is it American tax law, or a global financial system that has failed to define the rules of fair trade and taxation for those who continue to take advantage afford great wealth. It isn't a grand global secret society, the working get reported all the time. It is the indifference to the larger world that keep Americans in the dark and the issues are too complex for the average citizens education to cope with. A Add in the bitterness of those that resent 'elitist', (who may be very rich, very smart AND very compassionate), and you have the recipe of ignorance overcoming education or experience. We clearly have winning candidates that count on that lack of reasoning ability by voters.

One of the few things I agree with Trump about is that our trade deals have allowed US corporations to manufacture overseas and then bring their products back to the US, allowing them to make a lot more money while costing US jobs. They should not be allowed to do this.

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People who work 2 on/2 off make more than most who work 40hr weeks. I have a relative who does 2/2 & makes over $200k.

Von Hippel is an Alaskan Gem! We are a poorer and sad state to lose him. The legislators are of the opinion that higher learning is unnecessary to labor in the oil fields. They still think women should be at home with the tots, while daddy goes to work 2 on/2 off, effectively cutting his pay in half. Stupid republicans! They are so 19th century!

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boozer, thanks for being so open and laying down a foundation for your comments. you are a survivor. implies a tough road. I do hope you're not saying you still live in "DARK" place. self medicating has been a problem since the day a mid altering substance was discovered. it is what it is....people treating themselves for "pain". I don't know if the buckley house is still in existence but I remember it being like a revolving door. first out were those dropped off at buckley against their will.. next, it was sincere folks, really looking to pull themselves up, but finding that providing their own "pain reliever" was too hard to overcome. my life was no picnic as I was farmed out to various relatives and friends..making no connections with anyone. that is serious and painful, never got into the self medicating mode, by the grace of god. had I, being an addictive personality, no idea how or where I would have survived, but it would have been ugly.

They are not a disease. That is a bald face lie to avoid accountability for ones actions. It is despicable to equate Huntington's disease that has killed 3/4 of my Chickasaw family with being a drunk-druggy. Now, as for your delusions pertaining to "It’s easy for some to say “hey, you Bum, quit your damn drinking!” Easy to say………hard to do.. In fact, almost impossible to do." The 2014 White House report on Native American youth reads like my life story, gary. Abject poverty, father committed suicide when I was 3 months old, drugs by 11, dropped out at 14, living on the streets at 19 with felony warrants for my arrest, and at 21 I became my father's son and took an overdose..but it only produced a brutal 3 day coma. That's when I was driven to Eugene and dumped off at a rehab clinic to say everything that could be done had been done. had I listened to those clowns I'd be dead long ago. The fact remains, gary, I am the worst case scenario (to be continued)

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Sorry to break the news to you (not really). Latinos ARE Americans. Reading is the easiest way to expand your mind. And I say that because I don't think you actually read the column.

And Americans look at Latinos and wonder how they got this far..... across the border illegally.

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Many of my fellow business people are doing just fine in Midtown and Downtown. It's going to be even better when Spenard is rebuilt to modern standards. If you believe a world of vacant commercial buildings and daily boxes from Amazon is the answer best of luck to you. As retail pricing enforcement becomes more stringent and a national sales tax for cross state purchases becomes inevitable, you'll see people appreciate their local bike shop or bakery more as they appreciate human contact and a personal touch. Thanks for the sustainability lesson. I'm sure The Sports Authority would appreciatte that as well. Cabelas is next.

freeheels, The proof is in the sustainability of a business. I can think of as number of "specialty retailers" now out of business who would disagree with you.

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Why use the loaded word "cult?" India is the second most populous nation, and is close to 80% Hindu. Are they all cult members? Just asking, and not being snarky, because that's a key idea. It's fair to criticize a person's policies and actions, but to bring up how a person is raised because it's different isn't an American Value. Sure, I remember ISCON and the Hare Krishnas in Waikiki and at the Airport during the 1970s.. Sure, I thought it wasn't cool some of the things I had heard they were doing to their members. Hawaii was still pretty naive. But people, and societies, do grow up. Religion is religion. Just because it's different doesn't make it wrong. BTW, I'm a Deist, not a Hindu, who largely accepts that there is a supreme being, but rejects the supernatural nature of an activist God or gods. There's room for all of us in the world.

I would guess you are affiliated with this religious 'group' if that's what you would like it called!

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That's because the gangs do not own the government in Asia as they do in Mexico, and the companies spare themselves all that dysfunction heading over seas.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/north-american-free-trade-agreement.asp NAFTA may not of had the results that we wanted, but it's Mexico who really got slammed. "Because of all these issues, the effects of NAFTA were largely negative for Mexico. The increase in the middle class was insignificant and many of the original NAFTA jobs went to Asia. The concentration of workers at the U.S. border had deleterious effects on the close-knit Mexican family structure because the living conditions in the border towns did not support more than single-worker residence. While some jobs remain in Mexico, the county has yet to realize the full benefits of the agreement."

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Meh. The dog wasn't even slightly a factor in this incident. Some dogs are crap, other dogs are fine. Blanket statements are pretty useless in such situations.

When the moose have just had their calves dogs need to be on leash.

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In reply to your statement about how you like to drink and drive: Any alcohol in your system impairs your judgment, and makes you a danger on the road. When you ingest alcohol and then get in an accident, it can be argued for negligence and willful misconduct. I used to drive after a couple beers, but I grew up after speaking to mothers who have lost their kids to buzzed drivers. It is not my right to drink and drive. It is a right for the public to walk and drive on roads without buzzed drivers.

"When you use the word ‘accident,’ it’s like, ‘God made it happen,’ ” Mark Rosekind, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said" also in the article from an unknown person: "“What is being solved by having this debate? What injustice are we correcting?” When I get into my car, I have every intention of arriving at my destination safely - even after having a beer or two, some wine with dinner, or margaritas at a party. I don't want to damage my car, be delayed, cause damage or harm anyone. Then a wasp flies in my window, the sun is in my eyes, there's a fight on the sidewalk, a deer jumps out, I'm looking for the address on a building, I just don't see the cyclist..... I may be involved in a fender-bender, a wreck, a crash. I might total my car, hit a pedestrian, hit a dog, any number of things may happen. I am NOT an advocate for drinking and driving, I wish everyone would drive as though their life (and mine) depended on it. Accidents happen.

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Thought government intervention in private lives was opposed by you. If people want to take the risk they should be able to do so, but commercial enterprises should be held to a higher standard.

It was one of my great peeves that I was a licensed Captain with a comprehensively equipped and superbly maintained 36' twin-engine boat, and at least until the cruise ship season got busy I could count on getting boarded and inspected every time I left Auke Bay. That didn't bother me so much, but the fact that I watched 16 - 20 foot open skiffs with 8-10 people aboard and not a PFD in sight pulling out without the slightest attention from the Coast Guard bothered me a lot. Sorry, folks, but anybody carrying six people in an open boat in those waters is a reckless fool. If you drown after going overboard, you weren't wearing a PFD. I don't know that the people who died brought it on themselves, but if not the Captain killed them with his lack of skill and attention. If you take people on your boat, their lives are your responsibility.

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I took a look at your link, and all you show is that CO2 concentrations are rising and temps are also rising (and results from rising temps). That is called correlation. Correlation is not causation, nor is it evidence. Do you have any evidence that CO2 concentrations changing from 250ppm to 600ppm will result in X change in climate? Lots have built models, but they are very weak evidence, as they are full of assumptions and unknowns.

This is a very interesting article. I will be visiting the Mendenhal Glacier in early September 2016, after a visit to other glaciers in Alaska. Their very fast retreat is preoccupying, in the same way as the melting of the sea ice in the Arctic. When I am in the U.S., I am both surprised and shocked when I hear many people say - like the tourist in the article - that "rising temperatures are cyclical, not caused by people. And the climate change scientists are paid off by environmental groups". This is definitely false. I have written in my bilingual (French-English) weblog several articles about climate change and the role played by CO2 emissions. Here is one of them: https://claudegrandpeyvolcansetglaciers.com/2016/03/08/rechauffement-climatique-co2-temperatures-oceans-et-glace-global-warming-co2-temperatures-oceans-and-ice/

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It is being buried.

The proximity to a beach where tourists prefer to camp may be part of a larger plan to not let them camp for free across the Bay from the town camp ground. In previous somewhat sane dealing with disposal of large marine mammals, the better ideas involved burial at sufficient depth to avoid the odor or predation; another being attempt to sink the remains at some distance from human settlements, by affixing weighted objects to the greater mass. While having removed a percentage of the external body weight of the whale may help it decompose faster, the residual mass should be buried. At least nobody has stepped up to suggest another 'exploding whale' scenario. Over the past several years there has been a die-off of numerous whales along the BC and southern Alaska coasts. Several reasons have been suggested; while actual cause may have been something eaten some time ago. Or in the water... Toxic algae bloom? ~No sign of a 'propeller headache' in this case. {PS: edit option is back}

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Don't think there's ever much of a risk of a wolf pack becoming seriously inbred, unless they are completely, physically isolated from other packs [as in on an island, in a zoo, etc.] However, wolves don't just 'crank them [pups] out on some regular schedule. IF everything goes well; there is lots of food and care for these pups teaching them to hunt and all - so that the female is in good health after going through the winter, she may come into heat for next spring. If she's exhausted and/or underfed, she may not.

Male wolves tend to roam. If she's a breeding female there's a great chance she will find a mate by fall. It's important for Wolves to mingle between packs otherwise they would become inbred. There's possibly some opportunity here to improve gene flow.

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You need to subscribe to Capital Press, and keep up with this issue yourself. As for the herbicides and fines, we've already covered this thoroughly in the last month. It's not my fault you didn't pay attention.

Boozer, can you list all the fines that the Oregon department of forestry has levied for herbicide drift in the past 5 years. It seems to me that fines are rare and small. Can you also list all the fines in Oregon that have gone to organic farmers. That way we could see who is being caught and punished for polluting more often.

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Yeah, Rhyner, just like the Republican majority has put Big Oil first before everything else huh?

There is zero hope of ever balancing the states budget if Beltrami were to get elected. He would always put union pay raises ahead of everything else.

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Hi Pearl, I offered an alternative plan to the Governor's plan. I'm pretty sure he will agree it is the way to go.

Kelly, trying to argue that the legislative acct'g isn't a 'smoke and mirrors' attempt to mislead - is like the kid with his fist in the cookie jar, swearing up and down that he's Not REALLY stealing cookies. The only things left to cut that won't cripple the State are the oil welfare system and the fantasy-based mega-projects in the capital budget. And then we STILL will need to restructure the PF and get the income tax going [if the legislature had guts, they'd increase that %] and either the other taxes the gov is asking for , or a small sales tax. Better hussle down there in Juneau - the # of voters not losing patience with the smoke, bs, and nonsense is getting smaller the longer this foot dragging does on [on the Treasury's tab] - don't forget this is the 2nd yr we've wasted money on this pointless dithering.

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Check out her facebook page, I doubt if she is scarred by much of anything. In fact she's probably going to use it as a point of pride to hassled by the man.

Seriously, Reg Guard? You're going to name names and the trauma that will inflict on the individual? Especially when the dude's name ain't available? What's next, scarlette lettering? Have some $%@%ing class and mercy. I took a journalism ethics class in college. You don't gain clicks by naming the person. You just do harm. Screw you, Chelsea Gorrow. I don't know the young lady involved here, so YOURS is the name that I'll remember after this. You could have made the other choice rather than trying to fucking scar some poor 18 year old. It's a funny story without the name.

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Yes, and there were NO HUMANS OR SUVs on the planet. Liberalism is all about control and anthropogenic global warming is all about liberalism. It's a means to an end similar to prohibitive land use laws and political correctness.

Don't the paleoclimate guys tell us that CO2 content was at ca. 400 ppm during the end-Pliocene time, PS (about 3 million years ago?) Was that an unnatural cycle of some kind? ;-)

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As several individuals have noted, there is virtually no "debate" in the scientific community regarding climate change and global warming. Except for a very, very small community of climate change "deniers", it's accepted as fact, and supported by all data, that climate change is REAL, its impacts are a danger to the well-being of the Earth and all plants and animals (including man,of course) on it. Additionally, it's a scientific fact that human activity plays the major role in creating that climate change. A few climate change denier zealots such as Mr. Dickson and our fellow poster, 4:20, will likely nevery change their minds and their positions become increasingly irrational. Donald Trump, for example, has stated "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." In the real world, we're beyond the "debate". Today's question is simple: It exists and what are we going to do about it?

There is near total agreement among the scientific community that climate change is currently being driven by human activity. It's certainly not clear that humans will find a way to cooperate in reducing our impacts in time to avoid extinction. The ignorant denial of scientific facts demonstrated in this letter is not helpful.

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"Bad for Ryan." So much this. We've already seen the phony religious types expose themselves by endorsing Trump and now we get to see which of our political representatives are the most ethically challenged opportunists. Sadly, we already know where Lisa, Dan and Don stand...

Bad for Ryan.

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Exactly. We have a bunch of worthless imported turds living here and this is how they thank the US for living here.

Select few?! Do you not pay attention while driving around. This town is really going down the shoot. Every corner I see, from O’malley to Post Rd., nothing but homeless alcoholics. Shootings and murders every weekend. (weekdays too!) Crazy drivers. Rude people. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!! (Please don’t delete this…I’m TIRED of it! I’m tired of not feeling safe when my wife has to go downtown alone. I’m tired of worthless drunks staring me down at every dang intersection in town. It’s time to act, folks. How do we fix this?) Signed, I’ve had enough………………

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Workforce is also an issue. I doubt there are many young engineers and machinists who are flocking to Junction City.

PakTech doesn't have to travel far North to find a site within the City Limits of Junction City where infrastructure (water and sewer) would NOT be an issue. JC has an inventory of industrial lands ready for development. The landowners are ready to sell those parcels to companies such as PakTech. The City is ready to facilitate the infrastructure development., and the citizens of the Junction City area are ready to welcome industrial development. I won't presume to speak for Junction City, but may I suggest the PakTech folks take an afternoon, visit with Junction City Administator Jason Knope, visit with the Planning Department staff, visit with community members and consider Junction City as an alternative to hassling with the City of Eugene. Were I the executives of a company wishing to expand, I think I'd try to find a city which wants the company and is ready to work WITH that company to "make it happen."

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Right on, Sophie!

Maybe they should stay and celebrate Native culture during Celebration. They might learn something.

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The limitation is one quarter ounce per day, per shop, for recreational cannabis.

"buyers are limited to one container per day with no more than 1,000 milligrams of THC." Snort! There are more marijuana outlets in Oregon than there are hard liquor stores. In Eugene/Springfield/Glenwood, just on the main streets I can think of about ten and I'm not a user. The only limitation on marijuana purchasing is how much money you have and how long it takes to buy it at each 'dispensary' or 'retail outlet'.

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"You exist...therefore you are". That's good enough for most of us.

Thank you defending my right to exist. It's something I have to assert publicly everyday of my life.

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The property on S. Willamette is very valuable to developers...perhaps if local businesses close-property can be more easily bought.

Workers in businesses on the street are breathing that extra exhaust every breath of the day.

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Big waiting lists.

Why can't these people get homes in the projects?

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but you want to give illegals free apartments and food. nice

Find out if there's a ferry in dry dock and then move the Republican majority to that ship. If that doesn't work, the National Guard can set up several of their large canvas tents. I'm sure the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood camps will gladly donate a continental breakfast each morning, and other restaurants and businesses in the community will appreciate the extra legislative housing. See, won't that be cheaper than moving back to Anchorage and sneaking around to campaign while they're suppose to be working on the Governor's fiscal plan? Don't let them leave Juneau, Governor Walker.

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What would be cool is if poor people with decent ideas could get patents.

I don't have to wonder how Anchorage does it, but I do have to wonder how the people in the United Sates have been so willing give up their U.S. Constitutionally protected State sovereignty over to the Federal Government's politicians.

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Pass me the pipe, dude!

These so-called liberals are the same people who made Stalin's lunatic regime function. If they had the opportunity they'd be locking millions of Americans up in concentration camps and working us to death, just like Stalin did to the Russian people.

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Motley, Exactly! I think it would be a mistake to assume the "elected" president would be anyone running for president. The republicans control the house but neither the party nor Ryan control every republican. Enormous social, political, and economic trades will be made to gather votes. The resulting level of acrimony from who gets what could see conservative democrats uniting with liberal republicans to form a new party! Bernie start the tsunami that finally washes the the two parties out to sea. By the way, you sound like a Libertarian to me with your "Enlightened Hedonism" comment above. I haven't shed my unaffiliated or independent status yet for the Libertarian Party yet but I a grow closer and closer each day. You should check the party out. There is a difference between joining a party, being registered with a party, and voting a party. Free will, that's what the Libertarian Party is all about. "They want to take over the government and then leave you alone."

A President selected by the current House of Representatives. In the case of an Electoral College deadlock or if no candidate receives the majority of votes, a “contingent election” is held. The election of the President goes to the House of Representatives. Each state delegation casts one vote for one of the top three contenders to determine a winner. Since there will be three 'contenders', it will depend on how the 452 (one spot is vacant) Representatives vote in each State. Are there more "Red" States or more "Blue" states? 26 States will be enough to elect the President. Do 'Democratic' State Representatives like Hillary better than Bernie? Are there enough of either kind to outweigh the number of 'Republican' State Representatives? Now that would be a can of worms!

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So far on the "By-Catch" issue, they all have proven themselves time and time again, to be "handmaidens" to the Trawlers....

"The event happens as the North Pacific Fishery Management Council convenes in Kodiak for a weeklong meeting dominated by plans to carve up 25 different kinds of groundfish catches among trawlers. The new plan aims to reduce unwanted bycatch of halibut, salmon and other species taken by trawl nets in the Gulf of Alaska." Terrific! So once again, a public resource is "carved up" and given away to a handful of private interests. This time to 65 trawler owners, with the "aim" of reducing bycatch. So once again I ask, why does the public have to surrender its ownership in this fishery (or any fishery) in the name of management? Will the trawler owners refuse to reduce bycatch if they are not given the resource? Is NOAA and the North Pacific Management Council that impotent, or are they simply the handmaidens of the commercial fishing industry? Laine? North Pacific Management Council members? Anyone?

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So, you missed the part about charging BFS and BC for first responder calls? And the suggestion they be shuttered? The former would help repay the city's expenses and the latter would go a long way toward at least spreading the problem out rather than concentrating it where it is now.

Mayor Dan Sullivan is the one who gave us Housing First, where we provide the homeless with apartments (Karluk Manor). They are not required to stop drinking, or go to rehab, or get jobs. Apparently, this is cheaper, than arresting these folks and keeping them in jail. Mayor Berkowitz wants to increase the program. I wondered how long it would take for right-wing demagogues, like Paul to attack the program, and blame it on liberals. The answer is, about one year. Notice Paul, offers no solutions to the homeless problem in Anchorage. Just his snarky, sophomoric drivel.

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Are you equating the Bible with Husler magazine, JS Fry? I'll have you know that's Ezekial 23:19, a passage Jehovah inspired Ezekiel to write one day when he was feeling particularly randy. Maybe the problem with Christianity is that Christians don't focus on the right parts of the Bible enough.

You sure this didn't come out of Hustler magazine? : )

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Nice, really loving of you to equate the homeless with animals. Maybe we should just tranquilize them and drop them off in Seattle or something, is that your solution. It never ceases to amaze me how some faithful condemn liberals all week and worship one all Sunday.

Are you kidding me ? Respect for the counter-culture ? How much did it cost the taxpayers last year for all the spice related rides to the hospital ? Any home or business that receives over x amount of calls for police assistance is charged . Why isn't the muni charging Beans and Francis for all the calls they make ? They have enabled the problems at their location , so they should be billed like everyone else. Imagine for a moment that these two places on third avenue were shut down. Would we see anyone hanging out there creating all the related problems ? Of course not . If we shut down homeless camps before they got built , would all those related problems exist ? Of course not . If you feed bears , they keep coming back . You enable the street homeless by feeding them---in essence rewarding them for their behavior--and you have the situation we have today . The problems are growing . We must stop the enablers to have any hope of things improving.

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Laws are one thing - enforcement, costs of enforcement, consequences of enforcement are also consequences that merit discussion and cost-outcome measurement... Did the unhoused mentally ill, the kids running from abusive homes, the kids aged out of foster care, vanish? Did people die, or become hospitalized/jailed at $$$/day public cost? What do you think will happen in Anchorage, and what costs aren't being discussed??

Mr. Mcdowall, Honolulu has made overnight sleeping in public and on beaches illegal. Miami does not allow panhandling or public drinking. NYC stopped "windshield cleaning" and overnight sleeping in Port Authority illegal. Singapore does not permit public vagrancy. The message is clear; make it uncomfortable and inconvenient to have public squalor and it will stop. Abet it and it will grow. It is growing in Anchorage because we don't have the collective will to deal with it.

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Correction: The UTSA numbers were total expenditures, while those provided for UA were state appropriated funds. I was able to find the total revenue (state, tuition, fed, etc.) for UAA FY 15. It is $309 million. Assuming that no money from FY15 was returned and with 20,000 students, this makes the cost of education at UAA $15,500 per student. The cost-of-living adjusted number between ANC and SA is $10,000 per student. Using UAF's FY14 numbers, $459 million with 10,000 students, you get $46,000 per student (COL adjusted = $29,000). Combining UAA and UAF, you get $25,600 per student (COL adjusted = $16,400). I stand by my conclusion that these campuses are operating efficiently. I won't weigh in on statewide administration.

How about this Exas, let's compare individual institutions, rather than systems. I will use UT San Antonio. UTSA has 29,000 students and an operating budget of $514 million (FY14). This works out to $18,000 per student. UAA and UAF put together also have about 30,000 students (let's try and eliminate economies of scale). The operating budgets of UAA and UAF are $127 million and $173 million respectively ($300 million total). This works out to $10,000 per student. The conclusion is still the same as before: UA's institutions are operating efficiently compared to those in the L48. When you consider the higher cost of operation in ANC/FAI vs SA and also the higher costs associated with UA's rural satellite campuses, these metrics are all the more impressive.

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No, genius, they've threatened repeatedly to guy consistently left wing public radio; Alaska's answer to the Radio Moscow of old. Threatening their money helps to keep them at least a little bit honest.

To all the naysayers that enjoy bashing rural Alaska, don't forget that the Republican majority is anti-rural Alaska and they have tried repeatedly to gut rural Alaska Public Radio, and have for decades underfunded rural Alaska across the board. Kids that live in rural Alaska should have access to state-funded public school no matter where they live. If villages don't have access to the Internet, perhaps the villagers should ensure that homeschool Internet access is available for their children. If homeschool laptops or computers and Internet is good for urban student, who by the way have complete access to any public school, it should be good enough for rural students.

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I grappled for it when the fishery was new in Prince William Sound. Grapple hooks! Then divers. OYG< I miss it terribly.

The Sitka people who did this were just great to the elders at the Pioneer home. My Dad would look foreword to this treat every year he was there. He, and many others that lived there loved it. My hat is off to the folks who do this.

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They might think they are helping these people, just like the people who give to panhandlers think they are helping. But they are just enabling them to get their next bottle of booze, or hit of pot or drug of their choice. Tough love is the answer here, don't give to them and they will be forced to start to contribute to their own well being.

Kudos to those that volunteer and donate. Your community Thanks you

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Speculate away Cydney, that's all we can do anyway. What you fail to see is that "he" did not quite drinking and "he" did not get a job. These were gifts provided by others. Someone decided to hire him. He was given the gift of intention to quite drinking. Where I suspect we disagree is where individual intention comes from. Does it manifest from an individual "Self" or is it a product of infinite conditions beyond a separate controlling "Self." The irony of me even commenting back to you is hillarious to me because you will likely just think it is ridiculous and collapse back into your comfortable self righteousness. We are, afterall, a self righteous culture, believing that we know the truth of material reality, objectivity, and are each in control of separate controlling autonomous selves. I don't blame you if you hate me for my comment. You are not at fault for what you think, just conditioned phenonmena unfolding.

Overreact much? All he said was that he quit drinking and got a job. He didn't say he was totally independent. And what does who grew his food and built his plumbing have to do with the fact that he made the decision to quit drinking and make a life for himself? That's kind of ridiculous. Also, who said he doesn't care about other people? That's quite a leap, "Interdependent." Possibly because of his own drinking issues he recognizes that some people can't be helped unless they also help themselves.

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scienceduck: " ..said he was unable to stop the kick because he “already had the muscles fired” in his right leg.”... sure did miss that. WHAT? the cop's leg was already loaded to kick. so...? if the cop couldn't talk himself down the proverbially ledge.... he needs to be driving tow truck or doing repos or something...

How can bring closure to this story and yet not mention that absolute best part? "Edwards acknowledged in his testimony that Wilkens had begun to comply with his commands when he landed the kick, but said he was unable to stop the kick because he “already had the muscles fired” in his right leg."

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No, the real mistake was putting all our eggs in one basket and then burying our heads in the sand.

The real mistake was selling our souls to the oil companies in the first place and making our state almost completely dependent on income from a commodity with fluctuating prices. No doubt there was lots of income to be made from oil but we left ourselves with no real backup plan which is where we are today. Oil has us over a barrel (so to speak) and they know it, we have to break free if we're ever going to gain some leverage.

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Agree - if I am paying an income tax to pay out dividends the PFD is then welfare. And we don't attract scum like the Pilgrims

I'd much rather have a $1,000 PFD than an income tax. I'd prefer it go away completely before an income tax. It doesn't make any sense for the state to be giving out money with one hand and potentially be taking it back with the other using an income tax.

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"I feel more or less the same way but I don’t see why Republican voters would jump to Hillary - wouldn’t Gary Johnson be a more logical choice?" Ian, No it wouldn't, Hillary is far more of a mainstream American than either Trump or Johnson.

I feel more or less the same way but I don't see why Republican voters would jump to Hillary - wouldn't Gary Johnson be a more logical choice?

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Odd that you should choose those two examples. Both of them are currently involved in separate US District Court cases involving 'disappearing e-mails' before the same Federal Judge appointed by then President Bill Clinton back in 1994. Maybe an impartial Federal Judge can go where Obama Administration Officials Fear to Tread. It was a Federal Judge who found Bill Clinton guilty of perjury which resulted in his disbarment, after all. "Sullivan is presiding over a case, Judicial Watch v. IRS, where there is an ongoing investigation into the 2013 IRS controversy, specifically attempting to determine where the "lost" emails of former IRS employee Lois Lerner went, and what damage to her computer hard drive occurred, and what steps have been taken to recover the information contained in the emails and on the hard drive. "Sullivan is also presiding over a FOIA lawsuit involving the matter of Hillary Clinton's private email use while Secretary of State."

"An Obama appointee..." Democrat types don't have to go to jail for breaking federal law under a Democrat administration. It's a rule. Ask Lois Lerner. Ask Hillary Clinton.

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as a die hard Trump denier, I believe it's all down hill for him now unless there's a significant terrorist attack that creates fear which he can exploit. TV adds using the negative goldmine he's provided will excoriate him until Nov. and wither his support no matter how he changes, and he doesn't have the numbers to spare, even against a weak and damaged candidate like Clinton who currently beats him fairly handily in (usually pointless) polls. I'm guessing he's going to avoid direct confrontations with her, like the rebuttal, and whistle past the graveyard as much as possible, he knows he's nowhere near her league in any one on one confrontation. He can't afford missteps from here on out, but he's a walking talking time bomb on a hair trigger looking for landmines, plus, the press is now against him from this week's flap over the reporter being called sleazy. When that flips against a candidate they're done, he's got few free rides left now and the media are circling the wagons.

It will be interesting. The lid blows off whenever he is criticized and when he is ridiculed, the lid impulsively explodes off. But I think it may be too late for him to keep the lid on.. Now he is trying to soften his remarks about the federal judge born in Indiana of Mexican heritage, Interesting, Trump has yet to deliver his promised formal rebuttal to Hilary Clinton's foreign policy speech delivered in San Diego Friday.

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Old Soul - What I don't believe in is some kid who is 18 - who very likely first tried cigarettes when he was 12-14 because some other 18-year old "adult" offered him cigarettes - and who is now addicted - going out and buying cigarettes for some other 12-14-year old. It is a senseless cycle. We scream bloody murder about the illegal drugs pouring in from other countries, but allow US cigarette companies to addict our kids - and to export cigarettes to other countries. The American tobacco industry accounts for less than 1% of our national economy, but our political system has never shut them down. But we can't figure out why those OTHER countries cannot get their illegal drug growers and manufacturers in check - though in those countries that industry can account for 40-60% of their GDP. Cigarettes have been proven to be terribly harmful since the 1950's. That our kids can still get them so easily is a huge societal failure.

Sorry son, I can see you're 20 ,but I can't sell you cigarettes because the LCBC has declared you're unable to make good decisions regarding your health until you're 21. Oh BTW, didn't you join the military just after HS graduation? Nicotine is an addictive poison. It's derivatives are in certain insecticides. Perhaps the board with all its superior knowledge could endorse raising awareness about the roots of addiction and mental illness instead of a heavy handed, bass ackwards decision making possession of tobacco illegal to people under 21. Remember kids if you're 18 and defending our county you can kill and see friends killed, but you're not going to smoke that cigarette until you're an adult at 21. I don't condone tobacco use...but I completely believe in one's right to choose.

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Dial works in Ketchikan twisting paper clips in the troopers office. He, like Obooba, Black, and Craig, like to point their crooked fingers at everyone else while they have three fingers pointing back at them. Haha

I would be taxed and I am in full support of a tax. Stop throwing blanket statements around that are completely unfounded and blatantly false.

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Best advice I've read all day! ;-)

Do you own a shotgun? Excellent. Take it out. Load it with one round, any shot will do. Now point it square at your TV. Release the safety. Pull the trigger. Now doesn't that feel better?

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Theater is right. It reminds me of the Second City comedy ensemble except without the talent or the Joni Mitchell song Circle Game. “And the carousel goes round and round and the painted ponies go up and down.”

This reminds me of community theatre. The same cast of characters play minor roles while the search for a leading man or woman is always a challenge. From time to time the chorus line will change with a few new singers and dancers but who is going to play the lead is always a challenge. I buy the ticket hoping for a strong performance. Sport fans may see a similarity to UH football. Rarely are we rewarded but we still purchase the ticket. Painful as it is we paid our taxes and now we should vote. This is certainly not a Broadway production of Miss Saigon or a Sunday afternoon performance by Tom Brady and the New England Patriot, This is not the NFL... it is the Little League. We get the best politicians that money can buy. Do the homeless and disenfranchised fans vote? I don't think that they have tickets to this second rate performance..

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"I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." Jackass.

"Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold now they droppin and yellin it's a tad bit late Nate Dogg and Warren G had to regulate I laid all them busters down I let my gat explode now I'm switching my mind back into freak mode if you want skirts sit back and observe I just left a gang of those over there on the curb" Brought to you by the shining Gangster Rappers Warren G & Nate Dogg

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He didn't say anything like that at all. The writer's support of DeFazio has nothing to do with the point he's making. He understands that a large number of Congressional Districts have been drawn to ensure the election of either a Democrat or Republican, as opposed to it being a more politically balanced and competitive district which would help ensure a more "middle ground" and cooperative approach to governing. Good letter.

So "safe voter districts" are a bad thing, beacause office-holders need to please only their "partisan brethren." But when DeFazio represents a "safely Democratic district" and doesn't have to compromise, the writer is a "big supporter." Seems hypocritical.

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Your point was obscured by your use of loaded words like ‘slander’ and ‘awful’ without factual references which could have supported your angst.

Good research LFS2. Context: While Moore implied somehow Koreans' deaths were less horrific as they were somehow serving Japanese imperial militarism, the truth is that Koreans (and Taiwanese) were under brutal Japanese control, had no freedom of movement, and should not have been forced to be at Hiroshima. But as I'm not of Korean background I would much prefer that someone of their heritage, such as Prof. Youm, respond to Moore's assault on their history- this was my point.

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Sucking us all dry by paying for state government for the last 40 years and creating the Permanent fund. Wow. The state pissed all the money away, they could have easily had $100 Billion in there

The big three oil corporations are "sucking us all dry" and not the government.

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Joni, by your comment you have attained the status of either diplomat, government official or politician. Now you can claim your reward. For your services please stop by the fish auction and claim your free slab of grade 1 sashimi. Madame, nobody is against eating fish or farming on land when done responsibly. Because you can do something it may not always be the right thing to do. If that were the case people with guns would rule the world. Certain rules do apply even to the powerful few. There are certain social norms that should guide ones behavior. Frankly, people are concerned about the environment, overfishing and trafficking in illegal labor. Those issues should not be minimized or denied.

Let's see here. Earthjustice and other environmental groups are against technology that would increase land productivity of food. Now these same activists are supporting closures of ocean access and land for hunting access. I guess their message is just all to clear that their goal is no food production for anyone.

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Because inquiry and inquiring minds have resulted in you and me having a relatively cushy lifestyle. Would you really want to live in a world without the wheel, light bulb, antibiotics,........?

No one living will ever know for sure. Why argue about it?

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Nailed it...

Was it welfare Wednesday? (Mardi gras)

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metimayden: This is an unnecessarily mean post. I'm sure Mr. Craig's parents are devastated by his actions. I have no idea of Mr. Craig, his parents, his family or any of the details of this incident. I'm guessing you don't either. If the allegations are true, et's hope this intervention came "early" enough to get Craig some help........

The Student Of The Year lying about being president of Lane County Search and Rescue, and caught with 3 realistic-looking pellet guns, knives, hatchets and survival gear. His parents must be SO proud.

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Are you serious?

How would Trump know Obama's birthplace? Why blame him for having an opinion?

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You don't you keep your bigot, racists 8wop yap shut?

She must be up on a fishing trip at our expense. Why doesn't she stay in Washington and prosecute Hillary?

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Brian, isn't Mexican a nationality? Are you saying that anyone who discriminates based on race, ethnicity, gender, or religion is a racist? I don't see how is my comment defending anyone. It's simply that, "the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names" - Confucius

You cannot discriminate based on race, ETHNICITY, gender, or religion. Trying to play semantics with Trumps blatantly discriminatory words is really grasping at straws. Even Paul Ryan, the nations highest ranking Republican called Trump's words "textbook racist comments" It really boggles my mind as to how people still keep trying to defend the indefensible.

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I think it will prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for the Democrat establishment elites. Four more years of sticking it to the working class could sink the party. The young people who voted for Sanders are clearly not on board and they're the future, now more numerous than the baby boomers.

Well Lynn, I can at least feel comfort that I'm not from the "wing-nut" segment of the political spectrum. BTW, enjoy your "crow" dinner in celebration of Hillary's terrific victory over "Johnny-come-lately" Sanders. -- Paul

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Icon: They have Trump......isn't that the same thing?

Do Republicans have shame?

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Sanders cannot "deliver" his supporters, we will make our own decisions. I'm sure he will endorse Clinton and maybe even campaign for her in some fashion but a lot of us won't buy it. He will remain a strong voice for the left and will continue to push the Democrats to the left -- with what success I can't predict but they would be smart to listen to him, and to his supporters. This revolt has been coming on for a long time, Sanders didn't invent it. I think part of his lasting impact will be the huge email list he has accumulated and the movement his campaign has given a huge boost to. He has proven that you can run for president without taking money from rich people, if enough people want what you want. The same thing can be done in other campaigns, so I think we will see a decline in the influence of money on politics. Sanders is already using his email list to promote and finance congressional candidates who share his views.

Unless Bernie works to deliver his supporters to Clinton, we'll never hear of him again. -- Paul

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$10 per gram and less on the market right now. Which street are you shopping? Add the taxes and cost of dealing with all the regulation and oversight and the sky is the limit!

The total cost of growing marijuana anywhere in the US is too expensive because of all the red tape. It would be cheaper to just buy it from Mexico..but wait, I think that's against the law. Hm.. I wonder if Joe Blow will buy Alaskain marijuana at $30/gram or off the streets for $2/gram?

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Well, first of all I couldn't agree more with your sentiments. Secondly, the answer to your question is the first part of your name. I, too, am baffled as to how this is something worthy of being written about.

I have not read the article and will not. Why is this news,? Someones sexuallity shoud be a privite matter.

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I thought all the people now fire-phobic decided that trees are evil and should be all plowed down. So why plant trees after a fire? Surely pouring concrete over everything would be a better move. People tend to over react after a fire, and it really changes a place from what many Alaskans love. We are seeing a bit of that on the Kenai Peninsula right now. Some neighborhoods look closer to a California development, instead of looking like an Alaskan neighborhood.

I remember that fire and a colleague who stayed to fight the fires. Over a week later he came to work and the smell of woodsmoke was embedded in his skin. We helped Cathi and Bill plant trees on their property after the fire.

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Taggart, here is a very difficult to understand paper on the issues: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/IBM%20User/Desktop/C2%20Final%20GOA%20TBM%20Alternatives%20(as%20amended).pdf I suspect the biggy is the idea of co-ops and community fishing associations.

What proposal are these guys talking about? Walker wants to open the fishery up? I like to think I keep up with the news, but I haven't a clue what these guys are talking about! (Laine Welch, where are you?). I do know the Gov wants to tax the industry and considering most of the trawl fleet is out of Seattle, then I'm all for it. I also don't care how this fishery is done, myself. Bottom Trawling rips our seafloors and decimates crab and other stocks. Been there. Did that. Couldn't reconcile it. So, what are these guys crying about anyway?

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Because some idiot walked up on a moose.

So the bear was shot for nothing

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From the opinion, page 14-15 ".. prohibition does not apply to licensed hunters or fishermen while engaged in hunting or fishing, to members of target shooting clubs. Nor does it apply to the transportation of a firearm to and from a safety or hunting class or transportation between a person’s residence and business or private property, or to transportation between a business or private residence for the purpose of lawful repair, sale, loan, or transfer of the firearm. The prohibition does not apply to a person having a loaded firearm at his or her residence, including a temporary residence or campsite. Nor does it apply to a person having a loaded firearm at his or her place of business or on his or her private property. It also does not apply to a person “who reasonably believes that any person or the property of any person is in immediate, grave danger and that the carrying of the weapon is necessary for the preservation of that person or property.” The law the R-G ignored.

Exactly “Do Not Ever Rely on an R-G Article for Facts!”nothing more then another left-wing loon propaganda mouth piece.

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"Kitty only ‘discovered’ that any of these ‘homeless’ were a problem in her 12th year as Mayor". Utter BS. She was fully aware of the problem years ago and has worked hard to address it. You just like to pick on her because she's from Eugene and very progressive.

A 'nice place to stay' is going to keep a pack of bums from attacking someone? The crazy people who refuse to admit that they have any problems are going to suddenly volunteer for 'treatment'? Sex offenders should be provided with a 'nice place to stay'? Vinis is a Kitty clone; Kitty only 'discovered' that any of these 'homeless' were a problem in her 12th year as Mayor. And those are just her 'travelers'; all the rest are innocents to be provided the best Eugene taxpayers have to offer.

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As metlmayden pointed out above, "Eric Harris- born in Wichita, Kansas; Dylan Klebold- born in Lakewood , Colorado; Chris Harper-Mercer- born in L.A.; Timothy McVeigh- born in Lockport, NY; Adam Lanza born in Kingston, NH; and Jared Loughner born in Tucson, AZ." American citizens all, and all probably descendants from immigrants. What is your point?

Omar Mateen is the son of Muslim immigrants but he was born in America so he's a citizen. This is Obama's vision for America.

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That's why a better investment would be to build a few pedestrian bridges over Main Street, before replicating our current transit service with a project that has too many impacts to property owners and won't make Main Street any safer. Will widening main Street from 80' to 116' make it any safer to cross?

People die on this road much more often than any other stretch in our community. Something is wrong when an article about redesigning our local boulevard of death does not discuss safety or mention the many who have died on this road. Safety is and should be the main impetus for redesign. We have seen time and again how deadly a stretch this is.

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DC, I'll let the Koran speak for itself on homosexuality: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/homosexuality.aspx "Islam goes beyond merely disapproving of homosexuality. Sharia teaches that homosexuality is a vile form of fornication, punishable by death." As far as your insinuation goes about others posting, I find it reprehensible.

As usual, this discussion quickly degenerated in to the usual knee-jerk reactions for and against guns and Muslims. Only Listening to Grasshoppers seemed to focus on the tragic deaths themselves--could it be that it's because folks assumed the victims were mostly LGBT? L2G: "My deepest condolences to the victims, family and loved ones. Then the YouTube star and XVoice runner up, young Christina Grimmie, 23, shot and killed in Fla..........I’m just sick to my stomach. It’s all too much. To those lost may you rest in peace and may God have mercy on their souls. l2g". .................................Thank you L2G

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That absolutely is not true. There are employees making doughnuts for y'all 24 hours a day.

And if the article is to be believed, they aren't likely to pull from that fresh tray of donuts until the next shift... when they're no longer fresh. I don't know how true that is or isn't, but based on my experiences there, I'm inclined to believe it. Sorry if I've touched a raw donut nerve, Miss Grumpypants.

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No, they are murderers who call themselves Muslims, and who target Muslims for slaughter more than anyone else. "Islam" is the name of the religion. The Da'esh do not practice it. "Why do you say what you do not do?"--Qur'an

What are they buddist?? Islamic is in the name! ISIS, Islamic State in Syria. They are Islamic

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From january of this year: "National Rifle Association’s (NRA) New York state financial disclosure forms for 2014 are now online, and like past years’ tax filings, the documents provide a rare glimpse at the organization’s inner machinery. The group’s total revenues fell from more than $347 million in 2013 to roughly $310 million. Contributing to the decline was a drop in income collected from its members. Revenue from annual dues fell from $175 million to $128 million in 2014, a drop of 27 percent." The NRA represents only 6-7% of all gun owners, me included, since little Wayno Whacko took control. Get rid of this scurrilous nut job and things might look up. When he described the police being "jack-booted thugs" Is when G. Bush and I both bailed.

LOL! Where are you Kool-Aid parrots getting your propaganda? NRA membership is at a record high and growing. Your technical ignorance on firearms is too vast to address. By the way, even a passing student of history knows Muslims have been doing this since before the invention of gunpowder. I wonder if the dumbest of hippies will ever pull their heads out and realize white male Christian gun owners are the least of their problems.

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