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A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash
A public university president in Oregon gives new meaning to the idea of a pensioner. Joseph Robertson, an eye surgeon who retired as head of the Oregon Health & Science University last fall, receives the state’s largest government pension. It is $76,111. Per month. That is considerably more than the average Oregon family earns in a year. Oregon — like many other states and cities, including New Jersey, Kentucky and Connecticut — is caught in a fiscal squeeze of its own making. Its economy is growing, but the cost of its state-run pension system is growing faster.
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Oregon troopers investigating after three bald eagles shot to death
Law enforcement officials in Oregon are on the hunt for a bald-eagle killer. Oregon State Police issued a release Tuesday saying they were investigating after three bald eagles were found shot to death near Tangent, just south of Albany. Troopers believe the eagles were killed around March 16. No suspects have been identified.
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Oregon Governor Signs Net Neutrality Bill Alongside the Middle Schoolers Who Fought for Its Passage
n February, three middle school students helped push a statewide net neutrality bill. Today, Gov. Kate Brown is headed to the girls’ middle school in Portland, where she will sign the bill into law. “It’s an honor for the Governor to come to our school and sign a bill that’s so important to the three of us,” Luca, a 12-year-old at Mt. Tabor Middle School, told Gizmodo in an email.
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La Grande
Laura Gibson
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Oregon initiative would ban assault weapons, require owners to surrender certain guns
The proposal defines an assault weapon as any semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine, and any feature like folding or telescoping stock, or that can accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
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Woman, 32, gets decades in jail for drugging kids in illegal Oregon day care to go tanning, do CrossFit
A 32-year-old woman who abandoned young children — some just six months old — at her illegal day care in Bend, Oregon, to go tanning and to CrossFit has been sentenced to 21 years, four months in prison.
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The Second State to Pass a Law Protecting Net Neutrality is Oregon
Just days after Washington passed its momentous law protecting net neutrality, Oregon has followed suit. Indeed, it now appears that the entire west coast of the United States will soon have laws protecting net neutrality. The Oregon law (HB4155) sailed through both legislative chambers, and now awaits near-certain signature by state governor Kate Brown.
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Oregon Looks to Repeal Law That Gave Comcast a Huge Tax Break
A few years ago, you might recall that Oregon legislators passed a new law giving tax cuts to ISPs willing to quickly deploy gigabit broadband in the state. The goal was to encourage the rise of smaller broadband competitors, easing their entry into what traditional has been a very hostile market controlled by politically-powerful incumbents. But the effort had numerous issues, first of which being that an initial draft actually make deployment more expensive for companies like Google Fiber. The other problem: Comcast quickly nabbed millions in tax breaks due to the legislation without having to do much of anything different.
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The Tallest Lighthouse in Oregon has a Haunted History
Yet there is more to Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport than these ghostly stories.
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Woman has 14 worms pulled out of her eye after complaining of eye irritation
A US woman has become the first person ever infected with a rare, tiny eye worm previously only found in cattle, according to a Centres for Disease Control (CDC) report. Abby Beckley, a 26-year-old from Oregon, felt an itching sensation in her eye for more than a week before she pulled a half-inch (1.27 cm) long worm out of her own eyeball, researchers said.
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110 dogs, 1 cat who were at risk of euthanization in Oklahoma, fly to safety in Oregon
An Oklahoma non-profit organization chartered a 5 ½-hour flight Saturday to transport 110 dogs and one cat to Oregon, where two local humane societies are confident they will be able to find the pets homes. The non-profit -- “Fetch Fido a Flight” -- says it spends about $250 per an animal to send animals without homes in Oklahoma to shelters across the country that won’t euthanize them.
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Fear of the Federal Government in the Ranchlands of Oregon
Two years after the standoff at the Malheur Refuge, many people in the region remain convinced that their way of life is being trampled.
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This Pricey 'Raw Water' Is a Total Scam—$64 Gets You Tap Water from Oregon
You've probably heard the buzz about "raw water," the hottest new drink in Silicon Valley. It promises benefits like "natural probiotics" and "beauty minerals" like silica—and as we just discovered, it's a total rip-off.
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New Jersey Is Last State to Insist at Gas Stations: Don’t Touch That Pump
As of Jan. 1, the only other holdout, Oregon, allows people in certain counties to fuel up their cars themselves.
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Porsche reported stolen in 1991 found at base of steep cliff in Oregon woods
A 1979 Porsche 924 reported stolen from a movie theater parking lot in Medford decades ago has been located at the base of a steep cliff in the woods southwest of Crater Lake, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said.Heavy forest debris
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Detective solves 1979 cold case murder of Oregon teen
More than 38 years after Janie Landers was brutally stabbed and beaten to death, an Oregon State Police detective was finally able to return a pair of earrings to her family and deliver the news they'd long waited to hear: He knew who killed the 18-year-old Salem woman. "I'm really grateful and relieved that it's done," said Landers' sister, Joyce Hooper. "She can be totally at peace now because her case is solved."
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A Very Old Man for a Wolf
He was the alpha male of the first pack to live in Oregon since 1947. For years, a state biologist tracked him, collared him, counted his pups, weighed him, photographed him, and protected him. But then the animal known as OR4 broke one too many rules. By Emma Marris.
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Chunks of a Portland Man's Exploded Hand Struck a Federal Officer. He's Charged With Assault.
When he set off an explosion during a traffic stop, authorities say parts of Jason Schaefer's mangled left hand struck a federal officer. Now, Shaefer faces a charge of assaulting that officer. The bizarre detail emerged today, in an unsealed probable cause statement filed along with federal charges against Schaefer, 26. Beyond the assault charge, he's also accused of using and carrying an explosive to commit a felony.
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Thousands of dollars of equipment stolen from Oregon wildfire crews while they slept
Two fire trucks staged to fight the Chetco Bar Fire were ransacked while firefighters slept nearby in Brookings early Saturday morning. Coburg Fire Chief Chad Minter, chief of the Lane County Fire Defense Board, told The Register-Guard that a task force comprised of firefighters from Coburg, Junction City, Lane Fire Authority, South Lane Fire and Mohawk Fire drove over 230 miles to Brookings from Lane County on Friday night.
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Owners must surgically 'debark' loud dogs, court rules
The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a southern Oregon couple must quiet their incessantly barking dogs by sending them to the vet to have their voices surgically squelched. The Appeals Court ruled “debarking” surgery is an appropriate solution to a noisy and relentless problem that neighbors living next to the dogs have had to endure for more than a decade on their rural property outside Grants Pass.
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