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Yesterday | The Oregonian

Oregon legislators look at expanded tax options for financially troubled counties

Oregon legislators on Monday continued to work on a bill allowing the imposition of emergency taxes in financially ailing counties struggling to maintain basic law enforcement services.

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Related Topix: Oregon, Grants Pass, OR, John Kitzhaber, US Governors, Roseburg, OR

Monday | Medford Mail Tribune

Bergreen stepping down as superintendent this month

Ben Bergreen will retire as superintendent of the Phoenix-Talent School District this month, capping a 36-year career in education that saw him teaching students in lock-up, heading special education programs, and leading the district through more than a decade of financial challenges.

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Related Topix: Talent, OR, Phoenix, OR, Education Etc., Family, Kids, Jackson County, OR

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Medford Mail Tribune

Jackson County rises slightly in Census count

Jackson County's population has bumped up only slightly since 2010, but it still managed to rank sixth in the rate for population growth among Oregon counties, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Related Topix: Jackson County, OR, Medford, OR

Sat Jun 15, 2013

The News-Review

Douglas County near bottom in work force participation

Nearly half of Douglas County residents 16 years and older are not in the work force, the third-lowest participation rate in the state, according to a report released Thursday by the Oregon Employment Department.

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Related Topix: Douglas County, OR

Medford Mail Tribune

GED graduate learns the value of education

Ever since quitting high school a quarter of a century ago, Medford resident Danny Brotton has taken whatever jobs were available.

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Related Topix: Medford, OR, Jackson County, OR, Port Orford, OR

Thu Jun 13, 2013

OregonLive.com

Roundup: Eugene bag ban controversy; speeding cyclists

The Register-Guard urges city councilors not to start tinkering immediately with the city's newly enacted ban on plastic shopping bags .

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Related Topix: Oregon, Curry County, OR, Coos Bay, OR, Opinion

South Whidbey Record

Island County's new planning chief hails from Oregon

David Wechner has accepted the job as Island County's new planning head and is expected to report for work beginning next month.

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Medford Mail Tribune

'Indian Mary' left her mark on region's history

I am trying to find the names of Indian Mary's children. I am also very curious about a friendship or blood relationship she must have had with Louvilla Hinman, to whom Mary gave some of the land now known as Indian Mary Park.

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Related Topix: Rogue River, OR, Grants Pass, OR, Southern Oregon University, Umpqua, OR

Tue Jun 11, 2013

OregonLive.com

Grants Pass man, 51, drowns while swimming in Rogue River

Authorities say a 51-year-old Grants Pass man drowned over the weekend as he was swimming in a turbulent section of the Rogue River.

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Related Topix: Grants Pass, OR, Rogue River, OR

Medford Mail Tribune

Chamber crowd seeks budget answers

Speaking to Monday's Chamber Forum in Medford, Jackson County Administrator Danny Jordan laid out the steps the county has taken to deal with a $6.8 million budget shortfall for the coming fiscal year.

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Related Topix: Jackson County, OR

Sun Jun 09, 2013

Bend Bulletin

Editorial: No easy solutions for Josephine, Curry

It's hard to see a happy end to the budget problems that have Josephine and Curry counties on the brink of financial disaster.

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Related Topix: Curry County, OR, Opinion

Sat Jun 08, 2013

Medford Mail Tribune

Police find truck of Medford man missing since last June

Medford police have confirmed that a 1971 GMC pickup belonging to Chase Johnson Cook, 22, who last lived on Genesee Street in Medford, was found on a large property in Williams.

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Related Topix: Medford, OR, Williams, OR, Jackson County, OR

Thu Jun 06, 2013

OregonLive.com

Federal timber policy sows discomfort in southern Oregon

By Brendan Monaghan It's one of the first things we learn in civics class: Governments are instituted to secure the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Ron Wyden, Democrat, Oregon, Curry County, OR, Opinion

The Ashland Daily Tidings

Governor seeks local attorneys to fill two judicial positions

Gov. John Kitzhaber is looking for a couple of local attorneys to fill two soon-to-be-vacant judicial positions on the Jackson County Circuit Court bench.

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Related Topix: John Kitzhaber, US Governors, Jackson County, OR, Ted Kulongoski, Medford, OR

Wed Jun 05, 2013

Free Republic

Epicenter Of A Bursting Bubble

'Josephine County is broke,' wrote the commenter at Huffington Post. ' Armed citizen volunteers have taken over most patrol duties against the wishes of Sheriff Gilbertson.'

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Tue Jun 04, 2013

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

Oregon Governor Demands Tax Hikes and Emergency Powers or Will Call...

Looking for amazing arrogance coupled economic stupidity at the state government level? You can find it in Oregon where Governor Kitzhaber Demands Tax Hikes and Emergency Powers and Warns he Might Turn to National Guard , if the legislature does not see things his way.

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Related Topix: US Governors, John Kitzhaber, Tax, Curry County, OR

Mon Jun 03, 2013

The Oregonian

Kitzhaber promotes county rescue plan, warns he might have to turn to National Guard if it fails

Gov. John Kitzhaber warned Monday that he could be forced to mobilize the National Guard to police financially troubled timber counties if legislators and local officials can't agree on a rescue plan to provide basic law enforcement.

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Related Topix: US Governors, John Kitzhaber, Tax, Curry County, OR, Grants Pass, OR

Medford Mail Tribune

Veterans will receive U.S. rental housing vouchers

Seventy-five homeless veterans in southwestern Oregon soon will have a home they can call their own, thanks to rental vouchers provided by Uncle Sam.

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Related Topix: Oregon, Life, Veteran Affairs, Jackson County, OR, Klamath County, OR, White City, OR

Sat Jun 01, 2013

The Oregonian

Josephine County Sheriff's Office search and rescue team finds two men lost in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness

Two prospectors who were lost in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness have been rescued by Josephine County Search and rescue workers, according to The Daily Courier in Grass Pass.

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Fri May 31, 2013

The Ashland Daily Tidings

OSF gets Meyer Memorial Trust grant

The Meyer Memorial Trust's board of trustees has awarded two grants totaling $620,000 to organizations in Jackson County.

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Related Topix: Jackson County, OR, Ashland, OR, Medford, OR, Klamath County, OR