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You can sign a petition is support of SB 536, The Bag Bill, at http://www.thepetitionsite.com//5/ban-the-bag-in-Oregon/

posted 2 years, 3 months ago
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Question:  Do any of your guests (teachers or students) have experience with and opinions about the value of computer-based language instruction like the heavily-advertised "Rosetta Stone" program.

posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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Seems reasonable to me.

posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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What Jon Chandler failed to mention is that Oregon Government also creates jobs and that if this measure fails a significant number of jobs would be lost.

posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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Why does it matter?

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs050/1102372016498/archive/1102829867737.html

posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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Building up reduces runoff.  Runoff carries pollution, causes erostion and flooding and kills salmon.  Up not out.  Save our streams.  Save Cooper Mountain.

posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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Well said.

posted 3 years, 8 months ago
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Paul,

DEQ's database has specifics.

http://www.deq.state.or.us/wq/assessment/rpt0406/search.asp

posted 4 years ago
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Enforcing environmental crimes is good for business.  Intel and other businesses incurred significant costs because of the Wapato Improvement District Discharge.  Pollution costs businesses downstream from the polluter.

posted 4 years ago
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When we see an environmental crime in progress and state agencies do not respond who shoud we call?

Last summer Wapato Improvement District in Gaston discharged polluted water into the Tualatin River for over two months without a permit.  Tualatin Riverkeepers called DEQ, Or Dept of Ag, ODFW and Washington County Sheriff and asked them to stop the unpermitted discharge.  None of them took aciton to stop the discharge and it continued for several weeks afterwards.

The discharge cost the Joint Water Commission's drinking water plant more than $285,000 in additional filtration costs.  Residents of Beaverton and Hillsboro were forced to buy bottled water.  Intel had significant additional water processing costs.  Oregon Dept of Human Services issued a health advisory on the Tualatin River for two weeks.

The discharge was a violation of ORS 468B.025 and Oregon Department of Agricultures water quality rules for the Tualatin Basin.  Who do we call to stop such pollution when state agencies will not do their job?

See Rob Manning's and Becca Barteleson OPB Radio stories on the incident.

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