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On this day, February 11, 1999 the New Carissa cargo ship which ran aground a week earlier on the Oregon Coast near Coos Bay was set on fire with explosives to burn off some 400,000 gallons of fuel oil to prevent its spillage.




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Celebrate Presidents Day
Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Come celebrate Presidents day!



Sunday February 16th (day prior to Presidents day)

2562 S Santiam Hwy, Lebanon OR

(Between Grocery Outlet and Schmizza)

1:30 PM starts flag wave, movie starts approx. 2:30 PM

Flag wave weather permitting. dress warm.

Watch the Reagan movie and enjoy some snacks.

$5 donation recommended.

Linn County Conservative Alliance 2562 S Santiam Hwy, Lebanon, OR 97355. between Grocery Outlet and Schmizza.



Let Kids Be Kids
Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Empower parents, protect kids, and reclaim our schools. Parents have a responsibility to stand up for their children and their futures. Keynote speaker, Fox News Host Rachel Campos-Duffy. music by Kurt Van Meter. Tickets director@parentsrightsineducation.org
NW Event Center, Hillsboro, OR



Friends of Gap Road Town Hall
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Guest Speakers: Jim Johnson a career in land use and water management, and David Neal a Linn County farm owner exporter and owner of a land water management business.
Harrisburg High School Multi Purpose Room 400 S 9th St


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Oregon Democrats Want to Mandate Utopia
SJR 28 asks voters to give up right of representation

Oregon Democrat legislators are asking voters to transfer their responsibility to make environmental laws to the courts. SJR 28 proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to establish a fundamental right to a clean, safe and healthy environment.

This bill allows lawsuits against the state's action or inaction, and the prevailing parties securing protection for public safety or health interests in a self-identified right is entitled to costs for litigation, including attorney and expert witness fees, which pollutes the healthy environment of taxpayers having to pay for their own added control.

Twenty-two Democrat legislators want to control your living habits and needs for the greater good allowing the courts to make laws without representation. The US Supreme Court has already decided against legislators advocating their responsibility in the Chevron case.

SJR 28 reads, "This right is enforceable upon enactment, without implementing legislation or exhaustion of other remedies. This right is remedial in purpose, adding to and strengthening existing rights and remedies to achieve a healthy environment for all."

The courts are seen as interpreters of laws, and perceived as undemocratic in making laws, as the judiciary is not elected and therefore not directly accountable to the people. The traditional view that they should interpret laws rather than make them remains an important principle. It helps to maintain the balance of power between the branches of government and ensures that the democratic process is respected.

Democrats released their priorities, which very few of their filed bills follow. Perhaps this is what House Majority Leader Ben Bowman (D-Tigard, Metzger, & S. Beaverton) met when he said their road forward is to “progress toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring our state is resilient in the face of climate change.”

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What does that mean for Oregonians? The Oregon Lawyers Association has sponsored HB 2640 to reduce criminal court cases, perhaps to take on these more subjective cases that will blow with the wind of political power. Oregonians should take stock of how much they value liberties. Even if legislators pass bills to spur economy growth, a hand full of out-of-state environmentalist can challenge it. That's what happened to our forests using the spotted owl. It destroyed the Elliott Forest and impacted the school fund. Now the federal government wants to destroy hundreds of owls, where are the environmentalist? Giving environmentalists free reign and a hammer over our environmental policies will be a backwards move for Oregon.

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--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2025-01-28 17:35:35Last Update: 2025-01-28 18:38:39



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