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Pringle Square developer poised to take some of Riverfront Park 25 Aug 2013 | 01:54 am
Ah, City of Salem. The games you play. From what I can tell, an all-too-familiar strategy is being played out with Pringle Square's two-fold request that will be decided at next Monday's City Council...
Salem's Pringle Square development needs more creative planning 23 Aug 2013 | 04:28 am
Agreed: something needs to be done with the ghastly urban ruin -- the defunct Boise Cascade property -- lying along Salem's downtown riverfront. But something is a long way from anything. As noted ....
GOP health care plan: thousands die, millions go bankrupt 21 Aug 2013 | 08:40 am
It's no wonder why People Who Care About Other People (PWCAOP) are abandoning the Republican party. Us PWCAOP'ers don't believe in letting people die when they could be kept alive, and we don't belie...
City of Salem must deny Marquis' absurd tax-incentive ploy 19 Aug 2013 | 09:35 am
There's a lot to like about the planned Pringle Square development in downtown Salem (Oregon) near the riverfront. Getting rid of the Boise Cascade ruins and putting in apartments... great. Yes, I'v....
Go-Pro video of me tubing down the cold Metolius river 18 Aug 2013 | 05:05 am
If you're looking for You Tube videos of someone tubing down central Oregon's Metolius River, look no farther than... me! A few days ago I put up the World''s First You Tube Metolius River Tubing Vid...
Dick Withnell calls for Salem riverfront mediocrity 15 Aug 2013 | 08:38 am
A few days ago Salem businessman Dick Withnell tried to make the re-development of Salem's Boise Cascade site sound a lot better than it really is. Good try, Dick. But I found your "Boise Cascade si....
Metolius River tubing video -- first on You Tube! 13 Aug 2013 | 09:58 am
Below is rare footage of people tubing down a stretch of the Metolius River in central Oregon, a river known for its beauty, cold water, great fly fishing, and... Notable lack of people tubing down i...
Camp Sherman forest fire raises questions about "containment" 11 Aug 2013 | 07:34 am
The Green Ridge fire near Camp Sherman in central Oregon is nearing 100% containment. Its been burning away for ten days after a lightning strike got it going on July 31. Though the fire has been hea...
If marijuana is good medically, why not legalize it? 9 Aug 2013 | 09:50 am
Today CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, came out and said that he has been wrong about medical marijuana. In part because the federal government has been lying about marijuana's suppose...
My Strange Up shout-out to Salem citizen activists 7 Aug 2013 | 09:11 am
Hey, this is two-week old news... but summer is for slowing down. Forgot to blog about my last Strange Up Salem column -- which Salem Weekly called your activisting strange in its online offering. (C...
