A revised Oregon Wildfire Map was released on July 18. This map is available at the Oregon Explorer website. https://hazardmap.forestry.oregonstate.edu/ Release of this map began a 30 day period to comment on the map. The revised map changes “Risk Map” to “Hazard Map” and combine the Extreme Risk and High Risk areas into High Hazard. The Low Risk and No Risk areas …
Wildfires burning across much of the western U.S. and Canada are causing smoke to stretch across parts of central, eastern and southern Oregon. In response, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued an air quality alert Monday for Deschutes, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake and Malheur counties. Agency officials also expect intermittent smoke in Crook, eastern Douglas, eastern Lane, Jackson …
Andy Chandler of NW Fresh interviewed Will Lathrop who is running for Oregon Attorney General. Will Lathrop is an experienced prosecutor of child and human trafficking crimes. Learn more about Will Lathrop at his website: https://willlathrop.com/
The Pomeroy Dam was built in the 1940’s. For 80 years it has provided low cost irrigation water to the Q-Bar-X ranch and served as a popular recreation and swimming area. The dam itself is very beautifully designed. Not only is it quite functional and well built, but it is designed in such a way as to provide a gorgeous …
Gov. Tina Kotek’s behavioral health director is resigning, making her the sixth staffer to leave the administration in the past five months. Juliana Wallace, who was hired last August to oversee the governor’s behavioral health initiatives, regularly met with Kotek’s spouse, Aimee Kotek Wilson. In Wallace’s resignation letter, first reported by Willamette Week, she said it was a long journey …
(The Center Square) – The Liberty Justice Center recently filed a First Amendment lawsuit against a school district in Oregon on behalf of a high school track and field coach who the district fired for proposing an open division for male athletes who identify as transgender, according to a press release from the organization. The Lake Oswego School Board fired …
Calling Seymour Hersh! The investigative journalist who broke the story about the CIA blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines may be the only reporter brave enough to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding the political coup that was waged against President Joe Biden this summer. It looked for all the world as though Biden would survive his June 27 debate …
The uncertainty over whether President Joe Biden will run for reelection is over. Whether he’ll be able to complete his first term in office is still up in the air. I’m not that old but I do have a “Hey, where’s the remote control?” moments now and then. I don’t like the uncertainly of knowing whether Biden ever has “Hey, …
Are you worried your retirement account is not going to be adequate in today’s economy and inflationary world? Well, you’re not alone. A recent article from BenefitsPro says more than 40% of Americans are pushing back their retirement due to rising inflation. The real problem is that the cost of living has increased far more than most of us have …
(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation Wednesday night that he would finish his term in office but “pass the torch” to the next generation, namely Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden said he set his personal ambition aside to “save our Democracy.” “So I have decided the best way forward is to pass …