May 13, 2016 OSL eClips
State Library eClips – May 13, 2016
* Middle class shrinks in Oregon’s 4 metro areas, Pew study finds
* Oregon has another National Merit winner: Lincoln High’s Rona Wang
* Frozen foods company with Portland office recalls 47 million pounds of food in Listeria outbreak
* What defines a great school? A great teacher? Oregon schools chief wants your views
* Columbia River tribal housing at The Dalles Dam bill passes U.S. Senate
* Can police legally use unmarked police cars for traffic enforcement? – Commuting Q&A
* Pilot program would save money, keep people out of nursing homes — Guest Opinion
* Time to end ballot fight and make college more affordable — Guest Opinion
* In tax fight, Portland State declares victory, bleeds heavily: Editorial — Opinion
* Affordable housing should be built to ‘green’ standards — Guest Opinion
* Protect Crater Lake National Park from climate change — Guest Opinion
* Oregon State Penitentiary superintendent to retire
* Oregon State Penitentiary observes 150th anniversary
* Income gap has grown in Lane County, new report shows
* Identifying the high — Opinion
* Public lands protection needs public support — Guest Opinion
* Thinking about naming your new daughter Emma? Think again
* County retracts tax hikes on owners of accessory dwelling units
* ‘There is still hope’ for 326 trees to be logged for Jennings Lodge subdivision
* My View: Diesel tax on heavy trucks is right move — Guest Opinion
* Proposal targets long-term mooring
* Filling out your ballot: What on earth is a PCP?
* Extra water in Crooked River might help smolt
* Fight over plan to bottle water in Cascade Locks lands on ballot
* Editorial: Location of work should set pay — Opinion
* Editorial: Commissioners made the right choice on pot — Opinion
* White House Sends Schools Guidance On Transgender Access To Bathrooms
* Arizona Politicians Call On Oregon Governor To Investigate LaVoy Finicum Death
* Will More Registered Oregon Voters Translate Into High Turnout?
* Wolves kill llama in northeastern Oregon
* Listeria recall creates frozen vegetable conundrum
* Scam Jam to teach residents to spot scammers
* Farm country tour
* Malheur one of 13 counties to get wolf dollars
* Advocates give children in foster care a voice in court
* Since You Asked: Rail work part of crossing-safety program
* ODOT’s $120 million Highway 62 bypass project starts today
* Lyme disease awareness topic of talk
* House, Senate hope to craft quick anti-drug abuse compromise
* BLM boss: Wild horse program facing future $1B budget crisis
* State lands to hold hearings on dredging, leasing on water
* Oregon blasts Oracle in letter to Congressional Committee– Blog
* Map of the Week: Migration– Blog
* Oregon Rising effort aims to ‘dream the future’ of schools
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MIDDLE CLASS SHRINKS IN OREGON’S 4 METRO AREAS, PEW STUDY FINDS (Portland Oregonian)
The middle class is shrinking all over.
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OREGON HAS ANOTHER NATIONAL MERIT WINNER: LINCOLN HIGH’S RONA WANG (Portland Oregonian)
Oregon has a 29th winner of a National Merit $2,500 scholarship, the top tier award in the yearly contest for outstanding college-bound seniors.
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FROZEN FOODS COMPANY WITH PORTLAND OFFICE RECALLS 47 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD IN LISTERIA OUTBREAK (Portland Oregonian)
An already widespread recall of frozen food products that originated in Washington now includes a national brand with a Portland office.
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WHAT DEFINES A GREAT SCHOOL? A GREAT TEACHER? OREGON SCHOOLS CHIEF WANTS YOUR VIEWS (Portland Oregonian)
What factors define a great school? What attributes mark a great teacher? Oregon schools chief Salam Noor wants to know that, and more, as his agency prepares to rewrite some important rules now the Congress has killed the No Child Left Behind law and given states greater autonomy to oversee schools.
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COLUMBIA RIVER TRIBAL HOUSING AT THE DALLES DAM BILL PASSES U.S. SENATE (Portland Oregonian)
The U.S. Senate passed a bill today that paves the way for a new tribal village at The Dalles Dam.
The Senate’s Energy and Water Appropriations bill directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to plan a new village for tribal fishing crews who lost their homes when the dam was built in the 1950s.
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CAN POLICE LEGALLY USE UNMARKED POLICE CARS FOR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT? – COMMUTING Q&A (Portland Oregonian)
Q: An earlier article reminded me that Washington had a law regarding unmarked police cars not being allowed for traffic units. Does Oregon have similar laws?
Traffic-enforcement officers in Washington state have used unmarked cars for decades, but the practice became a hot topic in the state last year, when an activist “pulled over” an officer in an unmarked car and said the officer was breaking a law.
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PILOT PROGRAM WOULD SAVE MONEY, KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF NURSING HOMES — GUEST OPINION (Portland Oregonian)
Advances in modern medicine coupled with increased awareness of healthy lifestyle habits are allowing more and more Americans to live longer than ever before. But accompanying that good news are the stark realities of where these older Americans will live, how they will afford their healthcare and how society will respect the dignity that these seniors have earned over their lifetimes.
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TIME TO END BALLOT FIGHT AND MAKE COLLEGE MORE AFFORDABLE — GUEST OPINION (Portland Oregonian)
We at Portland State University are puzzled by today’s editorial in The Oregonian/OregonLive “In tax fight, Portland State declares victory, bleeds heavily” that describes the pledge by local business leaders to help raise millions for PSU students as a “disaster.”
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IN TAX FIGHT, PORTLAND STATE DECLARES VICTORY, BLEEDS HEAVILY: EDITORIAL — OPINION (Portland Oregonian)
n one of Monty Python’s more memorable film scenes, King Arthur lops off both of the fearsome Black Knight’s arms and legs in a fight to cross a bridge. Undeterred, the Black Knight looks up from his lowered vantage point and offers, “All right. We’ll call it a draw.” There was a bit of the Black Knight feel to last Friday’s triumphal announcement that Portland State University would suspend its effort to pass a regional payroll tax.
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING SHOULD BE BUILT TO ‘GREEN’ STANDARDS — GUEST OPINION (Portland Oregonian)
The affordable housing law Gov. Kate Brown signed in April is an excellent first step in creating long-term solutions for the state’s affordable housing crisis, but more work needs to be done. As building proposals are made to combat the shortage of thousands of affordable housing units, it is essential that construction criteria are prioritized for sustainable and healthy housing and to reduce utilities burdens for tenants.
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PROTECT CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK FROM CLIMATE CHANGE — GUEST OPINION (Portland Oregonian)
For the past 24 years, I have worked as a seasonal park ranger at Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon. I write this guest opinion as a private citizen, not as a National Park Service employee.
Crater Lake is truly American and global treasure. It’s the deepest lake in the United States and one of the purest and cleanest bodies of water in the world. It’s the only national park in Oregon
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OREGON STATE PENITENTIARY SUPERINTENDENT TO RETIRE (Salem Statesman Journal)
Oregon State Penitentiary superintendent Jeff Premo will retire in September.
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OREGON STATE PENITENTIARY OBSERVES 150TH ANNIVERSARY (Salem Statesman Journal)
When Oregon was only seven years into statehood, officials abandoned its penitentiary site in Portland and set up its first permanent prison in Salem.
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INCOME GAP HAS GROWN IN LANE COUNTY, NEW REPORT SHOWS (Eugene Register-Guard)
The economic gap between the haves and have-nots has grown in Lane County during the last 14 years, according to a new report that found the middle class is shrinking in nearly all of the United States urban areas that were studied.
The report by the Pew Research Center found that the share of adults living in a middle-income household in Lane County fell to 52 percent in 2014 from 56.7 percent in 2000.
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IDENTIFYING THE HIGH — OPINION (Eugene Register-Guard)
A study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has found that the number of fatal crashes involving drivers who recently used marijuana more than doubled in Washington state in 2014, to 17 percent compared with 8 percent the year before. Washington voters approved the sale of marijuana for recreational use in November 2012, and sales began the next year.
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PUBLIC LANDS PROTECTION NEEDS PUBLIC SUPPORT — GUEST OPINION (Eugene Register-Guard)
Last month I joined the Sierra Clubs Wildlands team in Washington, D.C., to meet with our members of Congress and ask them to support legislation that will gain better protection for our public lands in Oregon and the West.
We are in favor of full funding and permanent reauthorization for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the passage of the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage Act in Arizona, the Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in Washington state and the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act in California.
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THINKING ABOUT NAMING YOUR NEW DAUGHTER EMMA? THINK AGAIN (Portland Tribune)
What were the most popular baby names in Oregon for 2015?
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COUNTY RETRACTS TAX HIKES ON OWNERS OF ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS (Portland Tribune)
Portland’s granny flat construction boom is back on track.
Multnomah County has agreed to retract unusually high property tax increases levied on homeowners who built new accessory dwelling units last year on their lots.
There’s a lot more ADU’s on the drawing boards that will be built because of this, said Steve Anderson, who successfully represented 27 ADU owners who appealed what they thought were exorbitant property tax increases.
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‘THERE IS STILL HOPE’ FOR 326 TREES TO BE LOGGED FOR JENNINGS LODGE SUBDIVISION (Portland Tribune)
Clackamas County Hearings Officer Fred Wilson this month approved a developers re-application to cut down 326 trees on the 16.7-acre wooded former evangelical retreat center in Jennings Lodge to build a 62-lot housing development.
This is the same number of trees to be logged as the original application, but with 10 fewer housing lots.
The May 5 decision granted Lennar Northwest’s application to cut down the trees, but later the same day, the community group Friends of Jennings Lodge asked the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals for a stay to prevent the cutting of any trees until an appeal is settled. LUBA granted an interim stay on May 6.
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MY VIEW: DIESEL TAX ON HEAVY TRUCKS IS RIGHT MOVE — GUEST OPINION (Portland Tribune)
Portland is the transportation hub of the Pacific Northwest. Although many people do not make the connection, one of the reasons why our city is no longer called The Clearing is that we are the nexus of two interstates, two major rivers, and two major railroads. Multnomah County also is the home for 106,000 heavy trucks approximately one for every five automobiles.
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PROPOSAL TARGETS LONG-TERM MOORING (Bend Bulletin)
-Rules would limit boat parking on Jefferson County waterways-
Those looking to park their boats on Jefferson County lakes for long stretches of time may need to move their vessels to another parking space after a month.
The Oregon State Marine Board seeks comments on proposed rules for boats moored in Jefferson County lakes. At the county’s request, the board has proposed changing rules in order to prevent long-term mooring of boats.
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FILLING OUT YOUR BALLOT: WHAT ON EARTH IS A PCP? (Bend Bulletin)
-Primary voters in Oregon also elect precinct committee persons-
Voters who play only a passive part in party politics might be bewildered when they open their primary ballots and find they have the option to vote for an office few understand: precinct committee persons, or PCPs.
PCP elections are the down ticket of the down-ticket races. They receive their own ballot sheet, which often asks voters to pick from a list that doesn’t even have enough candidates to choose from.
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EXTRA WATER IN CROOKED RIVER MIGHT HELP SMOLT (Bend Bulletin)
More water will flow in the Crooked River for a few days next week in an attempt to see whether the added flow helps steelhead smolt migrate downstream to Lake Billy Chinook.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries plan to release more water from Bowman Dam on the river.
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FIGHT OVER PLAN TO BOTTLE WATER IN CASCADE LOCKS LANDS ON BALLOT (Bend Bulletin)
This little town, set below steep, forested mountainsides at the bottom of the Columbia River Gorge, stubbornly persists, eight decades after a dam was built downstream, drowning the navigational locks that gave the place its name and main income.
Today, unemployment in Cascade Locks is 19 percent, four times the rate of the rest of Oregon. Many businesses have gone the way of the Scenic Winds Motel, whose cabins are crumbling, the roofs greening with moss, a no trespassing sign posted underneath towering firs.
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EDITORIAL: LOCATION OF WORK SHOULD SET PAY — OPINION (Bend Bulletin)
Oregon’s new three-tier minimum wage law is nothing if not confusing. If all goes well, however, rules on how the law will work, which are being created by the Bureau of Labor and Industry, should make things clearer.
While the law raises the minimum wage across the state, its a tiered raise that changes depending on location, and it will take six years to be fully realized.
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EDITORIAL: COMMISSIONERS MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE ON POT — OPINION (Bend Bulletin)
The Deschutes County Commission has agreed to repeal the ban prohibiting recreational and medical marijuana businesses from operating in unincorporated parts of the county.
It hasn’t been an easy decision for the commissioners. It shouldnt be an easy decision given the complexities involved. But it was the right decision.
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WHITE HOUSE SENDS SCHOOLS GUIDANCE ON TRANSGENDER ACCESS TO BATHROOMS (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
The Obama administration is issuing guidance on Friday to schools throughout the country, saying they must allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.
The administration acknowledges this is new terrain for some people, and says it wants to help school districts avoid running afoul of civil rights laws.
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ARIZONA POLITICIANS CALL ON OREGON GOVERNOR TO INVESTIGATE LAVOY FINICUM DEATH (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
More than a dozen politicians from the Arizona House of Representatives and Senate have written to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, asking her to further investigate the death of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupier LaVoy Finicum.
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WILL MORE REGISTERED OREGON VOTERS TRANSLATE INTO HIGH TURNOUT? (Jefferson Public Radio)
The Oregon Secretary of States office says more than 50,000 new voters have been added to the rolls thanks to the states new motor voter law.
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WOLVES KILL LLAMA IN NORTHEASTERN OREGON (Capital Press)
A llama found dead and partially eaten May 9 was killed by one or more wolves, according to Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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LISTERIA RECALL CREATES FROZEN VEGETABLE CONUNDRUM (Capital Press)
After numerous frozen vegetable brands were recalled for possible contamination with pathogenic listeria, attorney Bill Marler’s phone has been ringing off the hook.
Most of the callers are complaining of gastrointestinal ailments after receiving robo-calls from grocers informing consumers that the food they bought had been recalled, said Marler, whose Seattle practice focuses on foodborne illness outbreaks.
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SCAM JAM TO TEACH RESIDENTS TO SPOT SCAMMERS (East Oregonian)
Consumers lose billions of dollars each year to scams, but a state-sponsored Scam Jam coming to Hermiston and Pendleton aims to help residents spot would-be thieves.
The events will take place Wednesday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Hermiston Conference Center and Thursday, May 19 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Pendleton Convention Center.
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FARM COUNTRY TOUR (Argus Observer)
-Agency head includes Ontario on trip with climate change focus-
It was a quick trip, but Val Dolcini, Farm Service Agency administrator, saw a lot of farm country in his swing through eastern Washington and eastern Oregon, including a short stop in Ontario Wednesday.
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MALHEUR ONE OF 13 COUNTIES TO GET WOLF DOLLARS (Argus Observer)
Malheur County is one of 13 counties in Oregon to receive funds from the Oregon Wolf Depredation Compensation and Financial Assistance County Block Grant Program, administered by the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
The department recently announced $129,664 in funding for 2016, money which is used to reimburse ranchers for losses due to wolf predation, according to a news release from the department.
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ADVOCATES GIVE CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE A VOICE IN COURT (Argus Observer)
At any given time, more than 100 children in Malheur County are in foster care.
Their stories vary parental drug use, physical or sexual abuse, family mental health issues but the result is the same. Scores of children are removed from their homes to keep them safe.
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SINCE YOU ASKED: RAIL WORK PART OF CROSSING-SAFETY PROGRAM (Medford Mail Tribune)
Q: I’ve seen railroad crews working on the tracks to the north of downtown Medford this week. Didn’t Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad just reopen the line between here and California? Are the tracks worn out?
A: It certainly looks like there’s some serious heavy-metal activity on the railroad near Pallet Wine Co. We checked with Oregon Department of Transportation railroad people, who told us the long-promised crossing-safety work has begun.
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ODOT’S $120 MILLION HIGHWAY 62 BYPASS PROJECT STARTS TODAY (Medford Mail Tribune)
The Oregon Department of Transportation will break ground on its $120 million Highway 62 expressway project at 1:30 p.m. today at the west end of Commerce Drive near the Medford airport.
Officials estimate the first phase, called “Oregon 62: I-5 to Dutton Road” project, will take about two years to complete.
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LYME DISEASE AWARENESS TOPIC OF TALK (The World)
Due to the increased cases of Lyme disease and the disabling autoimmune disease associated with Lyme, Oregon Lyme Disease Network of Bend is coming to the South Coast to promote Lyme awareness in the general community and among medical professionals.
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HOUSE, SENATE HOPE TO CRAFT QUICK ANTI-DRUG ABUSE COMPROMISE (The World)
Congress is ready to start crafting compromise legislation addressing the nation’s opioid abuse crisis, which should be an easier lift than other issues facing lawmakers. The reason: Both parties have an election-year incentive to show they’re tackling a problem that’s killing people in America’s biggest cities and smallest towns.
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BLM BOSS: WILD HORSE PROGRAM FACING FUTURE $1B BUDGET CRISIS (The World)
The head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it’s time to admit his agency has a $1 billion problem.
BLM Director Neil Kornze says the administration can’t afford to wage an increasingly uphill battle to protect the ecological health of federal rangeland across the West while at the same time properly managing tens of thousands of wild horses and caring for tens of thousands more rounded up in government corals.
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STATE LANDS TO HOLD HEARINGS ON DREDGING, LEASING ON WATER (Daily Astorian)
The Department of State lands will hold two hearings on maintenance dredging and waterway rules Wednesday in Astoria and Tillamook.
From 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday in Suite 209 of the Port of Astoria’s newer offices, 10 Pier 1, the state will discuss and take public comment on the issue of maintenance dredging, specifically about creating a removal-fill permit for routine dredging of existing marinas, boat basins, terminals and access channels for navigational access.
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OREGON BLASTS ORACLE IN LETTER TO CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE— BLOG (Oregon Business Journal)
In the latest salvo in the Cover Oregon legal fight, a Washington D.C. attorney wrote a 14-page letter to a Congressional committee outlining the states case against Oracle America.
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MAP OF THE WEEK: MIGRATION— BLOG (Oregon Office of Economic Analysis)
People have been moving to Oregon in droves ever since Lewis and Clark. Migration is a key driver to our economic growth and the Northwest more broadly. That is one reason our office regularly studies and discusses migration, demographics and population growth.
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OREGON RISING EFFORT AIMS TO ‘DREAM THE FUTURE’ OF SCHOOLS (KTVZ Bend)
Parents, students and teachers came together Thursday evening to share their thoughts and ideas on what they want for the future of Oregon’s school system. Summit High School in Bend hosted the statewide public outreach campaign Oregon Rising.
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