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Taxpayers are paying $60 for every pot plant the DEA destroys in Oregon
The Drug Enforcement Administration spent $960,000 to destroy marijuana plants in that state in 2014 as part of its "Cannabis Eradication Program," according to a recent report by NBC affiliate KGW in Portland, Ore. That year, the DEA succeeded in removing 16,067 pot plants from Oregon, which at first blush sounds like a lot of weed. But when you do the math, that works out to a cost to taxpayers of $60 per uprooted plant. That is a lot when you consider that nationally...
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The Wild Spirit of Oregon’s Coast
Over the years, Oregonians have fought hard to preserve the natural beauty and monuments of their coast. Today, the 363-mile shoreline remains as wild as ever.
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Bringing to Light
After an unexpected and mind blowing discovery on the slopes of Mount Hood, we embark on an expedition deep under the Sandy Glacier to document the disappearing world and fleeting beauty of the largest glacier cave system in the lower 48 states.
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Electric Oregon WR Byron Marshall (leg) feared out for the season
Oregon wide receiver Byron Marshall could be out for the rest of the season after suffering a lower leg injury in the loss to Utah.
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Active Shooter Reported at Umpqua Community College
Preliminary information indicates multiple deaths and more than 20 others injured in a shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College on Thursday, said Oregon State Police
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Forget Oregon’s Gunman. Remember the Hero Who Charged Straight at Him.
No amount of murder seems likely to result in gun control soon. So let’s do what we can to stop the lunacy—by reserving the limelight for the vet who rushed the killer.
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Chipotles close in Ore., Wash., after 22 sick from E. coli
The Mexican restaurant chain has had at least two other food-borne illness outbreaks since August.
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La Boheme Portlandia
As for gentrification, like in every desirable part of the country, economics decide the contest, and wealth wins every time. By Michael Copperman.
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Russian defectors living the dead end of the American dream in distant Oregon
For Janosh and Victorya, who in Russia lived as a former bag man for a Moscow bank and an FSB agent, the dream of a life as defectors has been plagued by spats with the FBI, and an unexpected life in a city they’d never heard of.
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Northwest Braces for More Rain after Day of Drama
Numerous rescues but at least two deaths amid downpours, flooding, mudslides, downed trees, power outages
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When I Die, by Brooke Jarvis
Peter Rasmussen was always able to identify with his patients, particularly in their final moments. But he saw himself especially in a small, businesslike woman with leukemia who came to him in the spring of 2007, not long before he retired. Alice was in her late fifties and lived in a sparsely furnished farmhouse outside Salem, Oregon, where Rasmussen practiced medical oncology. Like him, she was stubborn and practical and independent.
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I Suck
New Bad Things
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Invasive crayfish threaten species in Oregon's Crater Lake
At Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, the site of the deepest lake in the country, the surface water temperature has been heating in recent years, attracting an invasive species of crayfish that is putting the lake’s clarity and native creatures in jeopardy. Correspondent Jes Burns of Oregon Public Broadcasting and EarthFix reports.
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UPDATE: Right wing militia from Bundy Ranch occupy federal wildlife building in Oregon
UPDATE: Militia members protesting a federal prison sentence for two Oregon ranchers convicted on charges of setting fire to federal land have occupied the headquarters of a national park, the OregonLive reports.
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Oregon greenlights pharmacist-prescribed birth control
Pharmacists in Oregon are now permitted to prescribe birth control pills to qualifying women as part of a wave of new state laws for 2016. Oregon is the first U.S. state to put such a law into effect, with California reportedly looking to follow suit. A doctor's approval is no longer needed for a supply of pills, although experts urge women not to overlook preventative health care in the form of doctor visits.
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Statement by Oregon Farm Bureau President Barry Bushue on sentencing of Steve and Dwight Hammond to five years in federal prison
What is behind this latest showdown.
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WTF Is Happening in the Oregon Militia Standoff, Explained
On Saturday night, dozens of white, armed American militants stormed a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon seeking to take a "hard stand" against federal government "tyranny." It's a wild story. Here's what you need to know.
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The 19th-Century Law Behind the Oregon Standoff
For many people, public land is an untrammeled good. Places like the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge are paradises for hikers and safe havens for endangered species.
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Call for Supplies as Oregon Standoff Enters Second Week
The occupation of national wildlife area by a small, armed group upset over federal land policies stretched into its second week as the mother of the group's leader asked supporters to send supplies - everything from warm blankets to coffee creamer.
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US Oregon Militia Gets A Surprise When Opening Their Long Awaited Supplies
Gifts of sex toys, glitter and nail polish are not what the armed protesters who seized a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon were expecting when they put out a public call for supplies to help get them through the winter. The occupiers, who took over buildings at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 2 in the latest conflict over the U.S. government's control of land in the West, had been hoping for snacks, fuel and warm clothes when they provided sympathizers with a local mailing address.
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