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by George Seldes
June 2nd, 2007 at 09:07:32
Lloyd’s post on Crude prompted me to look around to see if I could find what Oregon’s plan is–how are we going to keep your kids and grandkids from living in a world of hurt, in other words.
Well, as best I can find, this is the plan for Oregon with respect to global warming: [...]
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by George Seldes
May 29th, 2007 at 08:15:29
Folks trying to cage subsidies for their preferred response to peak oil (i.e., biofuels, as in Oregon’s HB 2210) should take a good long look at this story and read the linked stories.
Because this is where playing the subsidy game leads: with a river of money going to the most powerful, rather than the most [...]
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by George Seldes
April 23rd, 2007 at 23:31:56
If you look at the “Action Center” link up there, it takes you to an important page where you can find links for taking “action” on various subjects—all marked urgent! (These days, taking action is pretty much defined as communicating with your elected employees in Salem.)
One suspects that Onward Oregon readers don’t suffer from [...]
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by George Seldes
April 18th, 2007 at 18:30:21
(This affects you no matter what substantive issues you are most interested in. Driving out small publishers will do to our discourse what Sprawl-Mart does to Main Street businesses in Oregon.)
POST OFFICE TO END 215 YEARS OF SUPPORT OF A FREE PRESS
BOB MCCHESNEY – The U.S. Post Office is in the process of [...]
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by Sid Anderson
July 4th, 2006 at 09:38:08
… that global warming is the single most important threat to humanity today. And that we as voting citizens of the United States of America and the state of Oregon have a duty to our fellow humans, our children, grandchildren and those yet to be born to elect leaders who understand this truth and [...]
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by Kate Gawf
October 17th, 2005 at 19:44:23
I’ve long known of my aversion for chaos, blood, and violence, but somehow I thought that if it really came down to it, I’d rise above myself and commit heroic acts. But then, a year ago, I took Neighborhood Emergency Training, which is all about what to do in case of disaster. For seven Saturday [...]
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