Like Dinosaurs Minus the Charm: Corporados Footprint First and Face the Law after the Fact

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Tue, 11/09/2010 - 12:00am
Pt.2 Interview with Cameron LaFollette with OCA on chromium mining & Michael Lange on Boardman

First off, the contact information:  Want to get all the dirt on mineral extraction around Coos Bay?  Go to www.oregoncoastalalliance.org.  If Boardman lights your fire, www.gorgefriends.org.

Air Cascadia featured two lengthy interviews (Well, 'lengthy' for Air Cascadia...), leaving out the scant tatters of local news.  I shall address the ommission presently.  But first, a poem in protest to Daylight Savings Time:

'I Heard a Noise'

I heard a noise...Outside the door;  A sound I never heard before.   I went upstairs    To get my gun...But it was only Time's lost sun.

Family man and disgraced former CIA agent Harold “Jim” Nicholson asked a Virginia federal judge back in 1997  to send him to a prison near his Oregon family as he served 23 years for selling U.S. secrets to Russia.   Perhaps the judge ought to have next asked Nicholson why he wanted to be close to his family.  Turns out the reason was so that he could use his son  as a proxy to reach out to his former Russian handlers from behind bars at the federal prison in Sheridan west of Salem.   Nicholson will get eight years tacked onto his existing sentence if U.S. District Judge Anna Brown accepts a plea deal that Nicholson struck with federal prosecutors in the case.

Is Oregon's mild-mannered GOP Representative Greg Walden ready to dip his bag in the hot Washington water?  To help lead the GOP's transition to power in the House,  yesterday Republicans tapped two newly elected congressmen who drew tea party backing in their campaigns.   Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Tim Scott of South Carolina, who won endorsements by Sarah Palin and support from tea party activists, are part of a 22-member team charged with crafting new rules and smoothing the GOP's shift from minority to majority.   And Greg Walden leads the tea team.     Walden said he didn't choose the team based on whether they had tea party backing, telling reporters last week that he wasn't sure whether those he was recruiting were supported by the conservative-libertarian movement.

And This:  In Clackamas County Republican Alan Olsen has  a 225-vote edge over Democratic incumbent Martha Schrader with only 130 challenged votes yet to count.  County officials are waiting for a final number that would trigger a recount.   An Olsen victory would give Republicans 14 seats in the Senate, while Democrats have 15. That would keep alive the possibility the chamber might be divided between the parties, as the Oregon House will be, 30-30.   A Senate race in Southern Oregon remains to be resolved, and it was unclear yesterday  when that might happen. The Democratic candidate leads there.   The National Conference of State Legislatures says records back to the mid-1960s show that some states have seen ties in one chamber or the other of their legislatures, but not in both simultaneously.

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