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  • Young salmon perish going through Klamath River dam slated for removal in Siskiyou County

    03/09/2024 2:43:53 PM PST · by cuz1961 · 12 replies
    Redding Record ^ | 3/7/2024 | Damon Arthur
    ...A large number of young hatchery-raised salmon that were released into the Klamath River recently were killed when they passed through a tunnel near the base of the Iron Gate Dam on the river...
  • Oregon Bill that Challenges Book Bans in Schools Passes Senate

    03/06/2024 12:37:46 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 20 replies
    A bill that aims to push back against a rise in book bans in Oregon school districts has passed the Senate. Senate Bill 1583 says that "that a school official cannot prohibit materials because the materials concern a class of people identified in our education anti-discrimination laws. In other words, you cannot ban a book because the book involves folks from marginalized communities," according to bill sponsor Sen. Lew Frederick, D-Portland. "If you are not allowing kids to have books, and you are telling them what books they have to read or what books they can't read, you are basically...
  • Suspect wanted in Oregon on rape charges arrested in Martin County after dispute among authorities(FLORIDA)

    03/04/2024 1:45:55 PM PST · by devane617 · 13 replies
    wpbf ^ | 03/04/2024
    An undocumented man wanted in Oregon for rape is now in federal custody after the Martin County Sheriff’s Office says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initially declined to hold him. The Martin County Sheriff’s Office says they were legally required to release 26-year-old Juan Jose-Sebastian from jail, even though they knew he was wanted in Oregon for rape charges. After Gov. Ron DeSantis and U.S. Rep. Brian Mast got involved, the sheriff’s office was given the legal authority to rearrest Jose-Sebastian. Investigators say this all started over two weeks ago when deputies arrested Juan Jose-Sebastian, an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant...
  • REVEALED: Chinese gangs are behind THOUSANDS of illegal weed farms across the US - sparking fears that CCP could become new cannabis kingpins

    03/03/2024 5:01:29 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 45 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 03 03 2024 | Miles Dilworth and Will Potter
    Chinese gangs have set up thousands of illicit weed farms across the US as they begin to challenge Mexican cartels for supremacy as America's cannabis kingpins. Authorities in Oklahoma, Oregon, California, New Mexico and Maine have all been battling a surge in Chinese weed farms, with some thought to be linked to criminal gangs known as 'triads'. The spread is seemingly uncontainable, with police in Penobscot County, Maine, last week arresting three Chinese nationals at a weed farm and seizing 40 pounds of the drug alongside $4,700 in cash. It is thought to be one of around 270 illegal weed...
  • Oregon lawmakers pass bill to recriminalize hard drugs after overdose deaths soared 190% and Dem-led Portland was forced to declare state of emergency over fentanyl crisis

    03/02/2024 2:44:32 AM PST · by dennisw · 45 replies
    FOR DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 2 March 2024 | MARTHA WILLIAMS
    Oregon lawmakers passed a bill to recriminalize certain drugs The bill now heads to the desk of Democrat Gov. Tina Kote who declared a state of emergency weeks ago over the fentanyl crisis in Portland Oregon saw 1,268 fentanyl-related deaths from 2019 to 2023 Oregon lawmakers passed a bill to recriminalize possession of drugs weeks after Gov. Tina Kotek declared state of emergency over the fentanyl crisis in Portland. A bill recriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs was passed by the Oregon Legislature on Friday. The bill reverses a key part of the state's drug decriminalization law, which...
  • Oregon bill would criminalize drug use on public transit

    02/09/2024 9:22:09 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 9 replies
    The Hill ^ | 02/09/2024 | LAUREN IRWIN
    An amendment introduced to the Oregon legislature Thursday would criminalize drug use on public transit. The Oregon Transit Association and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 are seeking to amend Senate Bill 1553 to create a misdemeanor charge for people who use illicit drugs while riding public transit. The charge of interfering with public transportation would apply to a person who “while in or on a public transit vehicle or public transit station, knowingly ingests, inhales, injects, or otherwise consumes a controlled substance that is not lawfully possessed by the person,” the amendment reads.
  • A Portland Vietnamese Restaurant Has Closed Because a Neighbor Kept Complaining About the Smell

    03/01/2024 5:23:11 PM PST · by llevrok · 32 replies
    Eater Portland ^ | 2/28/2024 | Brooke Jackson-Glidden
    A Fremont Vietnamese restaurant has closed its doors due to a neighbor’s complaints about the restaurant’s smell. Pho Gabo, which operates three locations in the Portland area, has closed its Fremont and Northeast 73rd location indefinitely due to “the city’s and the neighborhood’s complaints about the smell of the food that we grill and the foods that we serve customers,” according to a sign posted to the restaurant’s door. Willamette Week reports that the restaurant has been hit with complaints since September 2022, five years after the restaurant opened. A presumed neighbor has been filing complaints with the city about...
  • Eugene Mayoral Candidate Assaulted Three Men in 1984 “Gay Bashing”

    02/29/2024 5:19:24 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    Daily Emerald ^ | Feb 28, 2024 | Tarek Anthony
    Eugene mayoral candidate Douglas Barr, a FOOD for Lane County driver, has lived in the community for decades. A resident of the Bethel district, Barr, 59, has been involved in various community organizations. In 2020, he ran for city council in Ward 7, where he lost to incumbent Claire Syrett. Barr is also a convicted felon, he shared with the Daily Emerald. Upon further review, the Emerald found that in 1984 at age 19, Barr was involved in a self-described hate crime — referred to as “gay bashing” by the prosecution. Barr and three other men were charged of the...
  • Gavin Newsom dismantles dams to protect salmon, destroys their spawning beds in the process

    02/28/2024 4:26:19 PM PST · by CFW · 50 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | 2/28/24 | Katie Daviscourt
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom backed the controversial proposal to remove four Klamath River hydroelectric dams along the California-Oregon border. Now, the same fish he swore to protect could be killed in the process. The dams had been breached on claims that it would help salmon migrate, but the Klamath River is now full of destroyed spawning salmon beds and pollution including decomposed algae, organic deposition, chemicals, and fine silt which is killing its ecosystem, according to a report from the California Globe. Additionally, dead endangered steelhead trout and other species have been rising to the surface of the Klamath River,...
  • Oregon panel advances bill to recriminalize drug possession to House for vote

    02/28/2024 6:27:48 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 17 replies
    ABC News Local ^ | February 27, 2024 | by Christina Giardinelli
    SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon lawmakers on a joint committee on Tuesday voted to move a bill that would make possession of drugs a crime again to the House for a vote. The bill would effectively change voter-approved Measure 110. The bill has an emergency clause, which means if it makes it through both houses of the Legislature and the governor signs it, it becomes law immediately. But the new criminal charge for drug possession would take effect Sept. 1, giving the Department of Justice a chance to implement it. If it becomes law, people openly using illegal drugs on...
  • Klamath Dam Removal - It’s an Environmental Disaster

    02/27/2024 3:25:12 AM PST · by Ronaldus Magnus III · 33 replies
    They purposefully made a disaster and are leaving taxpayers and the locals to clean up their mess
  • Klamath Dams Down: Will Ranches Survive?

    02/23/2024 6:34:31 AM PST · by eyeamok · 28 replies
    California Globe ^ | February 23, 2024 | Theodora Johnson
    If 10 million cubic yards of sediment were to settle in the river, we’d see the equivalent of six lanes of freeway piled eight feet deep for nearly 100 miles. There are 192 river miles below the lowest dam, Iron Gate. In total, the river is approximately 250 miles long. For most of February, turbidity levels in the Klamath River hovered around 500 to 1,000 units over a stretch of at least 100 miles, according to U.S. Geological Survey measurements.2 These turbidity levels are 10 to 20 times what juvenile salmon can survive, according to a 2001 research report by...
  • Hard Hit by the US Opioid Crisis, Oregon Reconsiders Decriminalization

    02/21/2024 12:20:18 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 36 replies
    Reuters ^ | February 18, 2024 | Deborah Bloom
    It's a common sight on the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon: people in front of stores, trendy restaurants and hotels, on sidewalks, corners, and benches, crouched over torch lighters held up to sheets of tinfoil or meth pipes. Some drape blankets over their heads, or duck behind concrete barriers. Others don’t try to hide. "All summer long, we were right out in the open. You didn't have to be paranoid anymore, you didn't have to be worried about the cops," said John Hood, a 61-year-old drug addict living on the streets of Oregon’s most populous city. Hood spoke to Reuters...
  • Seattle restaurant suffers 23rd break-in, owner says as he admits he has ‘lost all faith’ in city leadership

    02/17/2024 3:50:38 PM PST · by george76 · 35 replies
    Fox News ^ | February 17, 2024 | Nikolas Lanum
    The owner asked to remain anonymous for fear of being targeted by activists ... A Seattle, Washington restaurant owner .. has lost faith in city leadership after his business suffered what he claims is its 23rd break-in since the "defund the police" movement started three years ago. "I have lost all faith in the city of Seattle, SPD, Council members, and state elected officials ... The owner of the establishment asked to remain anonymous over fear that activists would target him ... he was previously inundated with a slew of negative Yelp reviews after speaking out against the crime crisis...
  • Oregon TV station apologizes after inadvertently showing racist image during program highlighting good news

    02/17/2024 4:38:14 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 24 replies
    Today ^ | Feb. 17, 2024 | Feb. 17, 2024
    KGW has a policy of thoroughly screening all content for standards and accuracy before broadcast, but failed to uphold it, the station said.A television station in Portland, Oregon, apologized Friday for inadvertently showing a racist image during a program aimed at highlighting positive stories. KGW-TV displayed the image Thursday evening during “The Good Stuff,” which includes a “Throwback Thursday” segment sharing “cheesy, silly, or memorable” photos submitted by viewers. “The image, seemingly from the 1950s, depicted children throwing balls towards a sign prominently displaying (a racial slur),” the station said Friday in a statement posted to its website. “We understand...
  • River of Death – Collapse of the Klamath River Ecosystem

    02/17/2024 8:19:34 AM PST · by AuntB · 40 replies
    Siskiyou News ^ | Captain Bill Simpson
    Let’s face facts; some people are getting richer off the removal of the Klamath River dams. Glen Spain member [formerly] of Klamath River Renewal Corp. ‘KRRC’ board and fisherman’s advocate said “Economics Not Salmon Is the Reason PacifiCorp is Removing the Dams” It is now estimated by some experts that the total direct cost for the Klamath River dam removal project, will reach $800-million dollars, not the $450-million cost estimate projected over tens years ago. And then we have the costs related to the liabilities that are already arising from what is seen by many as an ill-fated project. According...
  • A Losing Trade – Quality of Human Life + Millions of Animals Dead For What? The Possibility of a Better Salmon Run?

    02/14/2024 3:18:09 PM PST · by AuntB · 27 replies
    Siskiyou News ^ | Wm. Simpson
    For over 100-years after the first dam was installed (Copco 1 Dam) and over 60-years after Iron Gate Dam was installed, there was nevertheless a decent run of Salmon and steelhead in the Klamath River, even with all of the changing ocean conditions, climate change, and OVERFISHING by both indigenous people and others. Any fishing guide on the Klamath River below Iron Gate Dam would attest to the fact that fishing was great. Therefore, this is the ONLY relevant Question: Is the deaths of millions of wildlife (mammals, birds, fish, etc.) and the collapse of an entire ecosystem, on top...
  • So much for an emergency! Portland piously sounded alarm on fentanyl crisis promising a crackdown - but the reality is junkies on every corner and paramedics taking over 20 minutes to respond to ODs

    02/10/2024 1:17:30 PM PST · by knighthawk · 21 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | February 10 2024 | LEWIS PENNOCK
    Within an hour of arriving in downtown Portland to investigate the city's newly-declared 'state of emergency' over its fentanyl crisis, I am on the phone calling 911. One of dozens of homeless drug addicts lining the sidewalks has just taken a hit from a piece of aluminum foil in open view and collapsed in a lifeless heap. In a county where overdoses caused more than 200 deaths in 2022 alone, I fear another might be about to happen right in front of me.
  • The Results Are in—Oregon's Total Drug Decriminalization Was a Failure | Opinion

    02/09/2024 7:19:13 AM PST · by Twotone · 11 replies
    MSN.com ^ | February 6, 2024 | Kevin Sabet
    In February 2021, politicians and activists celebrated Oregon's implementation of Measure 110, the nation's first law to decriminalize drugs like fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and meth. It's not a surprise what happened next: a dramatic increase in overdoses. Fast forward to last week: Oregon Governor Tina Kotek and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler declared a state of emergency in Portland due to sharp rises in overdose deaths, public drug use, and crime. Though the state of emergency is a step in the right direction, more must be done to undo the harm caused by Measure 110 and help more Oregonians live safe...
  • Oregon is finally figuring out that legalizing hard drugs in a moral vacuum doesn’t work

    02/04/2024 8:32:49 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 26 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/04/2024 | Andrea Widburg
    George Santayana famously wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Leftist policies daily show his wisdom. The latest leftist policy to go down in flames is Oregon’s experiment with legalizing all drugs. It turns out that when you give people license to sin, and also delete all moral constraints, they’ll sin themselves to death. Now, Oregon’s very leftist governor, Tina Kotek, is walking back the policy, having declared a state of emergency over fentanyl drug overdoses. The Founding Fathers never forgot the past. Indeed, they were imbued with it. One example of that wisdom was...