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This is Rep. Phil Barnhart's report sent to weekly newspapers this week: With the end of the legislative session fast approaching, we are still working to accomplish what Oregonians sent us here to do. Continue reading
As we wrote about in last week's EW, forest scientist Norm Johnson, upon finding out that the Cascadia Forest Defenders were protesting the White Castle Project, came and talked about the loggin with the tree sitters. Here is CFD's video. Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down rulings on two cases involving same-sex marriage Wednesday, June 26, and a Eugene rally is being planned at 5 pm at the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza at 8th and Oak. Other rallies are happening tomorrow in Portland and Ashland. The rallies are being planned by the ACLU of Oregon and Oregon United for Marriage. Portland contact is Amy Ruiz, (503) 929-1036. Continue reading
Oregon State University has just announced that it is establishing an open-source policy "requiring faculty members to make their scholarly articles available for free through the digital repository ScholarsArchive@OSU." This will allow the public more access to all the rsearch coming out of OSU, or as the school puts it, “Now a farmer in Oregon can look up a paper written by someone in the College of Agricultural Sciences. And someone starting up a science-focused company can look at work done in the College of Science.” Continue reading
The Oregonian's new media company Oregon Media Group (OMG, its acronym is OMG) is hiring. The second thing listed after "a sold understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure …" is "mastery of social media and digital interaction." That comes before the ability to work on deadline (which comes in at number four. Continue reading
The Oregonian has announced it's changing its delivery schedule for its print additions, laying off employees — among the layoffs are environment reporters Scott Learn and Eric Mortenson, (no relation to me,) Willamette Week reports). WW also reports that The O has decided NOT to call its online version TheDigitalO after all. Continue reading
Somebody (or bodies) destroyed Roundup Ready sugar beets in southern Oregon. No communiqué yet that EW knows of has claimed responsibility. Continue reading