Portland study targets neighborhoods next up for gentrification

The men and women who pushed urban renewal in the 1980s and '90s now say they should have known better. 

They should have known that government-sponsored revitalization in North and Northeast Portland would push long-time working-class and African-American residents to far-flung neighborhoods that lacked parks, sidewalks, paved streets and other basic services. 

Planners and politicians did a lot of guessing, and some of the adverse unintended consequences of gentrification took them by surprise. Today, nobody can claim ignorance. So Portland leaders are trying to do a better job predicting where neighborhood improvement risks pricing out anyone who isn't white, well-educated and wealthy.

Coos Bay maps out plan for downtown prosperity

COOS BAY — To paraphrase a famous quote from the film “Field of Dreams”: If you show them where you are, they will come.  

The Coos Bay Downtown Association believes that statement to be true and is taking steps to prove it through a new project.

 In May, the organization brought its plan to the Urban Renewal Agency.  It calls for the installation of a way-finding sign at the Visitor Information Center on U.S. Highway 101 and two information kiosks near downtown. The City Council took up the plan at their meeting this week.

Oregon schools could recoup money lost to urban renewal under new law

SALEM -- School districts who lose tax revenue to urban renewal agencies could recoup the losses in the future, thanks to a bill passed unanimously by the Oregon Senate today.

House Bill 2632 would prevent roughly 100 urban renewal agencies across the state from collecting property tax money from levies approved by voters after January 2013.

Supreme Court: Anti-prostitution pledge in AIDS law violates free speech

The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as a violation of free speech a portion of a 2003 federal law that required recipients of government money in an international anti-AIDS program to embrace and advocate a US policy explicitly opposing prostitution.

75th Anniversary of the Code of Federal Regulations

FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says

CWA Agenda  

June 24, 2013 

Owen Building (Coos County Annex, 201 N Adams, Coquille)  7-9 PM


Executive Council Meeting Agenda


1. Introductions - Ernie Newton, CWA President 


2. Special Presentation: Jerry Becker, Executive Director of the Wild Rivers
Coast


Heritage Land Trust: “The History and Future of the Wild Rivers Land Trust -
Protecting


Lands that Enrich our Lives - our Heritage Forests, Farms & Ranches ” 
 

3. Discussion/Actions: June 2013 Board and Council, 2013-2015 CWA/OWEB
Workplan

4. Council business: May minutes, financial updates, grant/project/crew status updates – Kelly Miles, CWA Director


5. Public Comment


Adjourn


Please submit any additional comments, thoughts and ideas that you would like to share to the Board of Operating Officers or Kelly Miles, Thank you!

CHERRYL  PERIL - PART II   By Jack Swift 

Regionalism - The Blueprint for Your Serfdom

Did you know that some of your local elected representatives are enabling a shadow government to evolve? These people promote the reinvention of government through their support of, and appointments to, “regional” boards that act like soviet councils. These councils are funded to implement Agenda 21. Federal tax dollars fuel their appeal, but your city and county representatives do not have to go along.

“Regionalism is Communism.”

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As long as you link back to Alt-Market as the original source, I am more than happy to contribute the article.
  
Regards,
Brandon Smith  www.alt-market.com 

Community Vs. Collectivism

(Reuters) - A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday prohibited patents on  naturally occurring human genes but allowed legal protections on synthetically  produced genetic material in a compromise ruling hailed as a partial victory for  patients and the biotechnology industry.
The ruling by the nine justices, the first of its kind for the top U.S.court, buttressed important patent protections relied upon by biotechnology companies while making it clear that genes extracted from the human body cannot be patented.

 Researchers and advocates for patients said it could make it easier for people to get cheaper genetic tests for disease risk.

Oregon pool safety info hard to come by

Pool inspection violations
The 189 pools, spas and splash pads in Marion and Polk counties have been cited 3,488 times over the past five years. Here are the violations investigators found most often:
•  285 citations: Free chlorine less than 0.8 ppm or greater than 5.0 ppm (parts per million). Chlorine that is too
low can allow disease to spread; too high can cause eye, lung and skin irritation.
•  191 citations: Skimmer weirs missing or damaged. A skimmer is a device that pulls in the surface water of the pool, filtering
leaves, insects and other debris. The weir is a door that fits inside to control water flow.
•  165 citations: The pH is less than 7.2 or greater than 7.6.
•  163 citations: Pressure or vacuum gauges are inoperable. 
•  161 citations: Total alkalinity less than 80 ppm or greater than 200 ppm.

This Week: Suing the EPA  -- In Two Weeks, Taking the EPA to the Supreme
Court with Dr. Gordon Fulks & Shannon Goessling

From Tom McKirgan of Oathkeepers