March 11, 2010 03:36 pm
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The first two months after I met the Better Half
I communicated entirely by nodding.
It was not until month three that I uttered a single spoken word to my future wife.
Silence is golden but ...
My proposal, in its entirety, was, “Will you ... ?”
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March 11, 2010 03:29 pm
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Letters and Comments for March 11, 2010
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March 10, 2010 04:02 pm
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It isn’t about environmentalists. It is about ecology but only as it
serves economics. Both terms have the same root, the Greek word oikos,
which means home. Before we can manage our home (economics) we need to
understand it (ecology).
Forest stands cascade off of Mount Emily, fingering down through
shaded draws and eventually merging to form the forests that cover the
benches above the Grande Ronde Valley. Those benches were originally
covered with old-growth Ponderosa pine. The Union County Museum hosts
photos that show log decks in Imbler from the turn of the last century.
Those decks are filled with giant Ponderosa logs that were most likely
taken from the immediate vicinity of Mount Emily.
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March 09, 2010 03:02 pm
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Letters and Comments for March 9, 2010
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March 08, 2010 02:29 pm
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Dear Neighbors of Union County,
I encourage the taxpaying citizens of Union County to continue to
question your Union County commissioners about the benefits of the
proposed wind farm(s). Maybe they’ll be wonderful, with all the
benefits promised. And maybe they won’t.
Take it from us in your sister county of Wallowa: two of your
commissioners have been very effective in decisions ruining our rural
beauty. The hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of parked rail cars we
look at 24/7 from Joseph to Minam are a manifestation of a failed
business plan. While the original mutual county effort to save the
rails was noble and with hope, the continuation of this plan beyond
anything but paying down the debt we took on in 1999 is akin to keeping
clipper ships alive in the face of steam.
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March 08, 2010 02:26 pm
The current recession is not the Great Depression. Just ask anyone who
was there. The current recession is not even a good recession. When
Congress a year ago passed its attempt to spend the United States out
of the recession, a lot of skeptics questioned the wisdom. There still
are as we wait in rural America for a lifting of the economic cloud.
Investment is one thing. But where is the investment in small towns and
rural regions? It seems as if more than the fair share of the stimulus
money in the $789 billion economic stimulus package is going to the big
cities for tunnels and high speed rail and not to small towns and rural
regions, where small businesses are hurting and people are out of work.
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March 04, 2010 03:16 pm
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“Gentlemen, start your egos.”
— Billy Crystal
There are more pings and knocks in late adulthood than there were at the Daytona 500 stock car race after the cars began hitting THE POTHOLE.
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