This does not surprise me about NM, because New Mexicans loves their guns, but they do not like closed borders.  It is too bad, because every law abiding American should have the right to carry concealed. 


Oregon Firearms Federation
PO Box 556
Canby, OR 97013

Voice: (503) 263-5830

http://www.oregonfirearms.org

OFF
ALERT 4.30.11
Candidate Ratings Posted
New Mexico No Longer Recognizes
Arizona CHL


Ballots are arriving and so have our candidate ratings.

You may view them here. The full link is at the bottom of this alert.

We encourage you to contact those who have not answered the survey and request they do so.  We will update if additional candidates answer.

We have been informed that New Mexico will no longer recognize Arizona permits.   Arizona permits have become popular in Oregon because Oregon residents can get them fairly easily and they are honored in many states. Be advised.


Candidate ratings.
http://oregonfirearms.org/2012/2012Candidate.rating.html


http://tinyurl.com/6uqm99x


Arizona Permit Info.
http://www.azdps.gov/Services/Concealed_Weapons/#Announcements

http://tinyurl.com/2c2l9gs 

Best of both worlds
Vernal pool habitat demonstrates that ecological
cooperation can provide economic benefits
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120430/NEWS/204300317

Messerle says he is humbled by the broad support he has received

http://mgx.com/blogs/2012/04/28/messerle-says-he-is-humbled-by-the-broad-support-he-has-received/ 

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The first FY 12/13 Budget Meeting for the Coos County Urban Renewal Agency is scheduled for:
 DATE:
Friday, May 4, 2012
 TIME:
7:30 a.m.
 LOCATION:
Red Lion Hotel Coos Bay, North Umpqua Room
 1313 N. Bayshore (101)
 Coos Bay, OR 97420


A breakfast buffet will be available for the Board and Committee members.

COOS COUNTY URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY


North Bay District


Coos Bay, Oregon 97420


BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING


Friday, May 4, 2012


7:30 a.m.


The Red Lion Hotel


North Umpqua Room


1313 N. Bayshore, Coos Bay OR 97420


AGENDA


1. Call to Order


2. Introductions


3. Selection of Budget Committee Chair


4. Receive FY 2012/2013 Budget Message


5. Review Budget Document


6. Confirm Next Meeting or Approve Budget


7. Other/Adjourn

Voter Guide provided by the Skyline Baptist Church Christian Impact Commission (CIC) 

Salmon-gobbling cormorants to join sea lions on hit list?
http://www.katu.com/living/outdoors/Salmon-gobbling-cormorants-to-join-sea-lions-on-hit-list-149132185.html

Here is another city misusing Urban Renewal funding.  In the end this will cause the tax payers in Medford to pay more for thier property and eventually their taxes will go up to pay for the projects built by the URA money. 

MURA budget covers a lot of ground
 
 April 27, 2012
By Greg Stiles
Mail Tribune
Medford Urban Renewal Agency Budget Committee members got their first look at what could be the final financial blueprint before MURA's downtown revitalization authority expires following a 25-year run.

The City Council and at-large committee members were presented a preliminary capital improvement budget of nearly $12.5 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1, incorporating 15 projects, eight of which are
carrying over from 2011-12.

The panel will meet May 9 to consider the budget and take public comments.


"Some of the things still have to be bid and paid for so we don't know what the bottom line will look like," said Bill Hoke, interim city manager and MURA's interim executive director. "If it's less than what we expect, there may be other opportunities. You never know."


Proposed capital expenditures are down more than $7 million from the present year, with the biggest drop coinciding with The Commons development. The Commons is a private-public partnership that includes the
Lithia Motors headquarters building, park blocks and infrastructure improvements.


In a meeting prior to the budget presentation, the Medford Urban Renewal Agency board approved a $1.65 million contract with Adroit Construction of Ashland to build Phase 1 of the park blocks project.


The largest expenditures on the budget for the coming year are the Evergreen project ($2 million) and the Commons ($1.86 million). The Evergreen project currently exists of only a parking structure, but preliminary
talks are being held with companies interested in building offices at the site near the corner of Main and Fir streets.


Projects that began during previous budget cycles include the Middleford pedestrian walkway, Evergreen Parking Structure rehabilitation, Middleford Parking Structure rehabilitation, Evergreen Way, the Fourth and
Central intersection, downtown street lights, Alba Park rehabilitation and The Commons.


Three capital requests are for a second installment of money approved last year: the Holly Theatre, Heart of Medford Association and Sustainable Valley. The Holly Theatre is due for an additional $100,000 toward
its restoration project, HMA is in line for an additional $25,000 for its marketing efforts and Sustainable Valley anticipates an additional $50,000 for its business incubator efforts in the downtown core.


"Those three are required to come to the board in July and explain how they spent the first half when they ask for the second half,"  Hoke said.


Other groups have requested funds, he said, but those proposals likely won't be addressed until the approved projects come to fruition.

 "We have to finish these first," he said.

 The preliminary capital improvement budget includes a $600,000 contingency.


MURA is scheduled to end active operations after the next fiscal year, but will remain on the books until its bond debt is paid off.

 Hoke said the MURA board — which consists of City Council members — ultimately will decide how any unused funds are spent, if money is left over after the budgeted projects are funded.


City Finance Director Allison Chan said leftover funds also could be used to pay down debt.


MURA paid off two bonds early and issued $21.7 million worth of debt, reaching its maximum indebtedness of $67.3 million.


"I think we're on the downhill side," Hoke said. "It's been a long road and we're getting close to being in that sunset period."


MURA's authority doesn't necessarily end with the end of the next fiscal year, Chan said. "We end when we've spent all the money from this last bond. Legally, we don't end until the last bond is paid off in 2025."


She said the remaining money has to be spent within three years.


During the agency's wind-down period, the City Council could terminate the agency, City Attorney John Huttl said, "and then assume the duties of the agency. We aren't there yet, but we'll have options."

 Reach reporter Greg Stiles at 541-776-4463 or email business@mailtribune.com.

Hey Everyone,

I stopped Banking with Bank of America over a decade ago, because of their progressive politics.  This latest action by this bank should give every American some concern about the financial intitutions that get our tax dollars in the form of bail outs. 

Please, if you bank at BofA and you are a gun owner then you need to show your 2nd amendment support and stop doing business with this very unamerican business.

Here is the email:
you  support ownership of firearms, read this and act accordingly. 
This was posted on McMillan Group Internationals facebook page by Kelly McMillan.

McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, McMillan Group International have been collectively banking  with Bank of America for 12 years. Today Mr. Ray Fox, Senior Vice President, Market Manager, Business Banking, Global Commercial Banking  came to my office. He scheduled the meeting as an “account analysis”     meeting in order to evaluate the two lines of credit we have with them. He  spent 5 minutes talking about how McMillan has changed in the last 5 years  and have become more of a firearms manufacturer than a supplier of    accessories.

At this point I interrupted him and asked “Can I possible  save you some time so that you don’t waste your breath? What you are going   to tell me is that because we are in the firearms manufacturing business      
you no longer what my business.” “That is correct” he says.

I  replied “That is okay, we will move our accounts as soon as possible. We  can find a 2nd Amendment friendly bank that will be glad to have our     business. You won’t mind if I tell the NRA, SCI and everyone one I know      
that BofA is not firearms industry friendly?” “You have to do what you must” he said.
“So you are telling me this is a politically motivated  decision, is that right?” Mr Fox confirmed that it was. At which point  I told him that the meeting was over and there was nothing let for him to  say.

I think it is import for all Americans who believe in and   support our 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms should know when a   business does not support these rights. What you do with that knowledge is up to you. When I don’t agree with a business’ political position I can  not in good conscience support them. We will soon no longer be accepting   Bank of America credit cards as payment for our products.

Kelly D  McMillan
Director of Operations
McMillan Group International,  LLC
623-582-9635
www.mcmillanusa.com

QUASI-JUDICIAL LAND  USE  PROCESS WORKSHOP
 The Coos County Planning Department cordially invites  you to participate in a training workshop to better understand the role of the  decision maker in the quasi-judicial land use process and local land use  planning and law. 


The workshop will take place on: 
Date: May 3,  2012
 Time:1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
 Location:Owen Building  (large conference room)
 225 N. Adams, Coquille OR

 Cost:  Free  
 


This workshop will cover various topics relating to the  quasi-judicial land use process, Statewide Planning Goals (especially coastal  goals) and local plans and ordinances.This training will be beneficial to all who work
within the land use  realm.An agenda will be available  a week prior to the meeting. 
 


Andrew H. Stamp 
 Featured 
speaker/trainer


Mr. Stamp is an attorney practicing as a  full-time land use attorney since 1997.He has extensive experience appearing before LUBA and the Court of  Appeals and has served as a hearings officer for Coos County, recently as the  hearings officer for the LNG pipeline.
  


R.S.V.P. to Jill  Rolfe, Administrative Planner at (541) 396-3121 extension 210  or Email:  planning@co.coos.or.us


Please limit attendance to three people per jurisdiction  to allow all jurisdictions to have the opportunity to participate. 


Reply early to  reserve your spot at this informative workshop. 


This training  opportunity is funded through a grant from the Oregon Department of Land  Conservation and
Development.

Maybe it is time to OCCUPY THE BANDON MARSH 
Road closure foes take to the street
                 Written by
Terri Harber April 16, 2012 08:48 am

By TERRI HARBER
 http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Road-closure-foes-take-to-the-street  


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Council chambers at Baker City Hall overflowed with people on Saturday afternoon as U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden hosted a town hall meeting. 

As was the case last week when Oregon’s other U.S. senator, Jeff Merkley, visited Baker City, most of the inquiries for Wyden — and some frustrated periods of venting — were about the recently announced Travel
Management Plan (TMP) for the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.


Anger about the TMP — which will ban motorized vehicles (except snowmobiles) from about 3,600 miles of roads on 1.3 million acres that are open now — has spread across Northeastern Oregon and other parts of the state over the past month.

 Opponents gathered Saturday morning to march through Baker City, many of them holding signs protesting the TMP.

 Many members of the group attended Wyden’s town hall meeting later in the day.


“We feel betrayed,” Jan Kerns, chair of the Baker County Natural Resource Advisory Committee, told Wyden. Her husband, Tim Kerns, is a Baker County commissioner. Jan Kerns cited motorized access to irrigation diversion  dams as just one issue related to the TMP that “needs serious discussion.”


Jan Kerns said she and other volunteers worked hard to give the Wallowa-Whitman information about how forest roads are being used in Baker  County.


But the TMP that Forest Supervisor Monica Schwalbach announced seems not to have taken the volunteers’ work into account.


As a result, Kerns said, they are finding it “hard to keep people motivated when government doesn’t listen.”

 People with questions and comments about the plan are being asked to quickly get them to their county representatives. Baker County’s representative is Commissioner Fred Warner Jr.


Warner’s email is  fwarner@bakercounty.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  and his office telephone number is 541-523-8201. 

Also taking information is Holly Kerns, county planner. Email her at  hkerns@bakercounty.orgThis  e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  or call 541-523-8219.


Forest Service officials and representatives from Baker, Union and Wallowa counties will meet this week to talk about specific issues and concerns. Then the county officials will report back with the answers.

 “They will go item by item,” Wyden said.

A member of Wyden’s staff will monitor the progress by attending the meetings. 

Though a Wallowa County official suggested the idea to Wyden, Warner is willing to give it a try.

 However, “we need to look at legislation. Enough is enough,” Warner said as the crowd burst into applause. “Everybody wants to protect (our forests) but we can’t protect them to death.”


“It just struck me as an approach that potentially has an upside.  I couldn’t see much of a downside,” Wyden said about the idea.


This effort could “magnify” individual opponents’ voices — which  would make it a good way to potentially influence decision making.


Wyden agreed with Warner that laws governing the forests need to be reviewed and potentially changed.


“Stop it or give us six months to straighten this out,” said Philip Scheler, who wondered what could be accomplished in a week after the plan has been in the works for five years.


He wasn’t the only person in the room who voiced this opinion.


“This is happening all over the country,” Wyden said of TMPs being created for national forests across the nation since the U.S. Forest Service in  2005 embarked on a campaign to deal with motorized recreation. “We’re going to  stay at it until we’ve got common ground. I’ve heard and seen how angry people  are with this process and I want to help fix this,” Wyden said.


“With these guys you have to fight … just a week?” Scheler asked  Wyden. “What’s it going to cost you to give us a month?”


“That may well be appropriate,” Wyden said, but also pointed out  that in a week “we’ll know what’s going to happen. There will be an account of all items we’ve heard raised.”


With users of the forest cut off from motorized travel to many  areas, the Forest Service is “forcing us” closer together to hunt, gather wood,  pick huckleberries and do other things. This could result in conflicts,
pollution and other damage to the land and potential danger to people, said  Carrie Matthews.


“It’s wrong. It’s a bunch of crap. We weren’t only ignored — we  were flat-out denied. We’re pretty ticked off. Someone made a decision to start  it. Someone can stop it,” Matthews said.


“Our town is at great jeopardy,” said Teresa Brown, a member of  the Halfway City Council. “You’re taking our legacy away.”


Brown provided details about the conflicts in forest management that are affecting people who rely on the land. One example: They were told there was a need to preserve the elk habitat but then “you bring in wolves to
kill them off.”


“They’re carrying off our dogs,” she said.

Closing roads makes people have to walk farther and risk being in  life-or-death situations with wolves — albeit far away from the safety of being inside of their vehicles.


“I can’t outrun them. What the heck am I supposed to do?” she  asked. ‘You can’t shoot ’em.”


Although the discussion focused on the TMP, Wyden also highlighted  another Wallowa-Whitman project — the Snow Basin plan, which calls for five  timber sales, totaling 48 million board-feet of logs, over the next five
years.

 Wyden touted the project, which is in eastern Baker County north of Richland, as a way to improve forest health.

 Forest Service officials estimate that Snow Basin would create 80  jobs: 46 in harvesting and 34 in noncommercial forest thinning. 

The project would override an 18-year policy of the Forest Service not cutting live trees larger than 21 inches in diameter in Eastern Oregon  national forests. Most of the larger trees cut are grand firs.


Wyden, who has introduced legislation designed to increase logging in national forests east of the Cascades, said he hopes the Snow Basin plan is  implemented with little or no difficulty and asked that anyone seeking to appeal  it contact his office first to discuss why.


Several people with mining interests addressed Wyden on Saturday.  The TMP is one more thing among a variety of use and access issues making it  difficult to mine in Baker County, local miners say.


“In our zeal to protect our environment we’ve regulated our country out of business,” said Kenneth Anderson. “All new wealth comes from the  ground.”


Anderson also said that mining is the “most important industry in the world.”

 Wyden said that mining would be the next issue to consider after the TMP.

 Those who questioned the draft environmental impact statement in  2009 are eligible to repeat the process and appeal pertinent contents of the  final Travel Management Plan. This needs to be done by April 30.


Mike Ragsdale, an organizer of the protest walk and gathering that drew about 200 people total, also serves on the county’s Natural Resource  Advisory Committee.


“Who has standing? As far as I’m concerned everybody has standing,” Ragsdale said after the town hall meeting.


He described Saturday’s protest as the “new walk of tears.”


Many of the same faces visible in the crowd Saturday also were seen at the Baker City town hall held last week by U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, which was preceded by an opponents’ strategy session as well.


Other issues that came up during Wyden’s town hall included Medicare, the federal budget, the economy and political campaign financing.


Suzanne Moses of Baker City commented about the large amount of money sent to political campaigns as well as the existence of money coming from “undisclosed sources.”


“How do we get out of this situation?” she asked the senator.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision about the Citizens United case,  which extended personal election funding rules to corporations and allowed  copious amounts of campaign money to be amassed and spent without identifying donors, “took the hinges off the doors of democracy,” Wyden said.


The latest version of the DISCLOSE Act includes an extension of  the “Stand by your ad” provision written by Wyden and Sen. Susan Collins,  R-Maine, as part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.


It requires any organization or Super PAC that spends at least  $10,000 on campaign activities to report that spending to the Federal Election  Commission within 24 hours and to file a new report for each additional $10,000  spent, according to Wyden’s website.


He’d also like to see a limit on the amount of time spent campaigning. This might require a change in the House and Senate rules so incumbents are regulated. 

Wyden suggested that people ask candidates for state and federal offices what issue (or issues) they’d most willingly work with members of the opposing party to do something about.

Before the meeting began a woman was passing out fliers. One had a picture of a pack of wolves. Underneath the picture it said “Thanks USFS for dinner!”

 “Please Don’t ruin Eastern Oregon. We were just coming back from the recession and you want to take away one of our best resources? We don’t want a bail out … just leave our land alone.” 

Video on Agenda 21

After having gone through a failed petition, it was still better than getting a $65,000 dollar fine.

This guy is going to have to sell lots of pot to pay for this fine.  
State fines marijuana initiative petitioner
Secretary of State issues $65,000 fine for pay per signature
violation
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20120423/UPDATE/120423028/1001

Obama’s Executive Order 13575 Rural Council – Agenda 21
http://cowboybyte.com/2150/obamas-executive-order-13575-rural-council-%E2%80%93-agenda-21/

Victoria Taft: Cash for Cronies – Part 5
by In the news Wednesday, April 4. 2012

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2. Victoria Taft: Cash for Cronies – Part  3


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A SAOVA message to sportsmen, farmers and pet owners concerned about protecting their traditions, vocations and livelihoods from anti-hunting, anti-breeding, animal guardianship advocates. Forwarding and cross posting, with attribution, encouraged.
 

More Campaign Finance
http://mgx.com/blogs/2012/04/21/political-alliance-committee-donates-4000-to-messerle-campaign/ 

There is no limit to what you can spend money on when you have lots of
corporate backers

http://mgx.com/blogs/2012/04/23/spending-corporate-campaign-contributions-on-glow-in-the-dark-mobile-signs/

Brian Sussman, author of “Eco-Tyranny: How the Left’s Green  Agenda will Dismantle America,” is warning that the federal government and the United Nations are teaming up to control energy usage in American homes.

 In the 2009 stimulus bill, the federal government authorized $16.8 billion in direct spending by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency, an additional $4.5 billion to upgrade to the nation’s grid and at least $2.8 billion for installing broadband.

 The 2009 American Clean Energy and Security Act also contained federally mandated energy-efficient building regulations that supersede all local and state codes. The law will be enforced by federal regulators funded by energy taxes and $25 million from the Department of Energy “to provide necessary enforcement of a national efficiency building code.”


All of this is being done at the behest of the United Nations and its Agenda 21.


As Sussman documents in “Eco-Tyranny,” Agenda 21 is a global effort by international elites to deliberately raise energy prices and change consumption patterns.

Rob,

We have our next Florence Meet and Greet scheduled for next Thursday, April 26th, 7:15-8:45 PM in the Bromely Room at the Siuslaw Public Library.  Our main speakers are Art Robinson and Scott Roberts and are expecting a couple of others running for local elections.  If you could please add this event in your next
email we would appreciate it!

Thanks,
Pam and Dean Hamill

THE BANDON MARSH EXPANSION MEETING IN COQUILLE
Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 11:00 am
The Owen Building 
201 N Adams St,
Coquille, OR 97423
 Google Map

There will be updated information to share regarding Congressman Peter DeFazio and The US Fish and Wildlife Service.  We will be sharing what was discussed at a recent meeting with State Rep. Arnie Roblan. This, plus several other recent events will be the topic of this meeting and everyone is welcome to attend.

The Meeting at The Barn in Bandon was a success with about 50 people in attendance.  We want to thank
  everyone who took the time to make it out to Bandon on such a rare sunny day…..   

For More information contact:
Don Chance    
541.297.2667 
 
Or 
 
Rob Taylor
 obetewic@msn.com 
  541.347.9942

Volunteers are needed for several Committees. 
  
There has been a non-profit created and designed as the official opposition to The Bandon Marsh Expansion.  


We hope those who have signed up to be a volunteer can attend this meeting.

If you cannot attend this meeting, DON’T WORRY, there are several more meetings planned and we are going to start a regularly scheduled monthly meeting open to the public.   Please, let us know if you would like to attend.  

Hello,

I wanted to get this link to you ASAP.  It is the response to the DeFazio letter to Dan Ashe of USF&WS. 
http://www.defazio.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=772&Itemid=139   

 Hello,

I wanted to get the news out that the Board of Commissioners  voted to write up the Urban Renewal Ordinance and bring it back for the next  meeting.  Then they will have public comment on the issue, so they can vote to  bring it back for a second reading and for a second vote.  And if it passes the  second vote of the board the measure will be put on the ballot in November.

Anyone confused?  Good


Today was just a discussion on the ordinance change, but it is the beginning of the process.  We are moving forward, but do not get discouraged when there are delays or  setbacks.  In 6 short months we have temporarily prevented a federal land grab  and stunted the growth or Urban Renewal.

I know it’s not easy to make all the meetings, but people can email or call the County  Commissioners
 
We are asking everyone to contact the Board of  Commissioners and thank them for starting the process on the Urban Renewal  ordinance change.  Then tell them to put the measure on the ballot and give the  people the choice. 

It will not happen unless you make that  call......


BOARD  OF COMMISSIONERS
Phone: 541-396-3121 ext. 225


Commissioner  Bob Main
bmain@co.coos.or.us
Phone: 541-396-3121 ext 770

Commissioner Fred Messerle
fmesserle@co.coos.or.us 
Phone:  541-396-3121 ext 247

Commissioner Cam Parry
cparry@co.coos.or.us
Phone: 541-396-3121 ext 281