I saw Mr. Handy speak at the dedication/celebration of the new Sponsors facility. (For those who are unfamiliar with Sponsors, it's a wonderful local organization that serves as a halfway-house for cons being released from prison. Sponsors provides lodging, and helps them find work to get on with crime-free lives.)  The sheriff made a gracious, ...

So ''Foundation Trilogy'' = ''MagicBus'' = ''Theeyelady'' = Mr. Bussey? One person can have three screen names here? How does that work? Mr. Bussey, you've beat this dead horse, well, to death, about five times over. You're obviously wrong about the impropriety of the funding practices you describe, as they are done everywhere in systems that ...

So ''Foundation Trilogy'' = ''MagicBus'' = ''Theeyelady'' = Mr. Bussey? One person can have three screen names here? How does that work? Mr. Bussey, you've beat this dead horse, well, to death, about five times over. You're wrong about the impropriety of the funding practices you describe. The county and city are audited by federal and private ...

With the terrible budget shortfall at the state level, we can look forward to tragic cuts to education, the full range of social services and public safety, none of which can afford to be cut. Our higher education system is mediocre and struggling for funding. The Oregon Health Plan, Disability Services, and a wide variety of critical services ...

The many good posts being added to an earlier thread were resurfacing a lot of distortions and deceptions designed to hurt other people, so I didn't want to bring it back to the top. outonalimb:To any police officers reading this thread: I hope you do not feel that the whole community believes the police to be at fault in this matter. It is ...

You know, I watched the video of the public safety ''hearing'' that was linked somewhere on this site, and it was terribly discouraging. The commissioners pretended they wanted to hear (listen), but two of them, particularly commissioner Fleenor, talked through the entire thing. Don't believe it? Watch the tape. We couldn't see all of the room, ...

time4change:I agree with you. The working class has the best opportunity to take back the Government from the wealthy than it has had, since giving the congress back to the wealthy in 1994. Well, this isn't a wealthy versus poor thing. It's a philosophical difference that comes down to a matter of balance. As I understand it, the wealthiest 5% of

That poor woman is obviously mentally ill. If she had any family here she'd be getting help instead if making a spectacle of herself and getting arrested all the time. It's sad, because there's obviously a good mind underneath all the craziness.

That poor woman is obviously mentally ill. If she had any family here she'd be getting help instead if making a spectacle of herself and getting arrested all the time. It's sad, because there's obviously a good mind underneath all the craziness.

Lance, the sharp jump in robbery numbers started in 2005 (when the economy was booming) and it's continued to rise along with other assault rates in Lane County. What concerns me most is the fat that our area continues to get worse, while other areas of the state and country are getting better. Our area used to be much better than most other ...