Report Clearing Marine Corps Connection to Camp Lejeune Sickness was Purchased
Tim King Salem-News.comIt makes some of us wonder who the people are at the head of this agency and what could make their hearts become so black and cold toward their fellow Marines.
(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - 
The Marine Corps is in hot water. A newspaper article has exposed the fact that the Marines paid $600,000 for a report claiming the Corps is not responsible for the toxic water Marines drank at Camp Lejeune for at least 30 years.
We reported last June, that a panel of scientists contracted by the federal government reviewed data tying a spiraling number of cancer cases from those who served on the North Carolina base, to Camp Lejeune's contaminated water.
PTSD and Fort Hood Massacre: Psychiatrist Shooter was Set for Mideast Deployment
Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.comNOW HEAR THIS: The Army VA Medical Service is broken almost beyond repair.
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - 
I have written that even medical/surgical personnel have PTSD as bad as Combat Infantrymen. I didn’t have any email responses which surprised me but this event is an example.
The fighting soldiers, sailors and marines with PTSD have complained bitterly about deplorable service and VA care. Now it makes the TV and newspaper headlines. BELIEVE IT!
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Op Ed: NO `Free Lunch`
Change Process
Demands Support
Henry Clay Ruark Salem-News.com
Part one is a special two-part series: American “Exceptionalism” Recognizes Realities NOW.
(EUGENE, Ore.) - 
Last words one will ever hear from this bunch of ”politicians” performing like career-disappointed actors is “Tax Increase”.
We’ve already had proof of where and to what that can lead... It’s so damned politically-comforting --AND crisis concealing !!-- never, ever to find oneself forced into that painfully unavoidable reality:
Orlando Shooter Leaves One Dead and Several Injured (VIDEO)
Tim King Salem-News.comA second serious shooting in as many days.
(SALEM, Ore.) - 
Orlando, Florida Police arrested a man in a shooting that left several people hurt and one person dead. The shooting arrives on the heels of yesterday's tragic shooting at Fort Hood that has claimed the lives of 13 people.
Chief Val Demings of Orlando's police department, said the suspect began shooting at the Reynolds Smith & Hill firm, reported to be the shooter's former employee.
The Fall of America
Daniel Johnson Salem-News.com[This is an unchanged article I originally published 25 years ago in the Winter 1984 edition of the now defunct Canadian magazine Goodwin’s. I reprint it now only because it is still relevant today.]
(CALGARY, Alberta) - 
American society in the mid-1980s is increasingly conservative, jingoistic and paranoid about its national defence capability. Many of its institutions have been infiltrated by the New Right and its economy is in decline. Some argue it is on the inevitable road to totalitarianism.
If we compare the United States of today with the Germany of the 1930s, the sounding of such an alarm might be justified, although arguments based on analogies are always inexact.
Making Sense of the Tragedy at Fort Hood
Eddie Zawaski Salem-News.comSince he survived the shootings, Major Hasan will now have his forty years to relieve the massacre and try to make some sense of it. War just isn’t worth it and this shooting proves it.
(PATAGONIA, Argentina) - 
Making sense of the Fort Hood shootings will be a difficult process for Americans. While some may swiftly consign this tragedy to the context of a black and white struggle between Islam and Christianity or Arab vs. American, others will look for more complex and more personal explanations.
How Americans and our military interpret and respond to this event will determine whether we have more or fewer tragedies like this in the future.
Medical Marijuana Affirmation: Congratulations to Oregonian Newspaper
Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.comIt is very comforting to me that after 10 years of the Oregonian dragging my patients and I through the mud that they have finally become enlightened and crawled out of the closet.
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - 
I have been hoping for this day for 10 years. As I was the Number One Medical Marijuana Doctor in Oregon for the first 5 years and an erstwhile target/victim of that paper who seemed to delight in making snide remarks about me and worse remarks about my desperate, usually destitute, disabled patients. This is indeed a new positive era.
On Tuesday they published an editorial WITH MEDICAL MARIJUANA FEDS TO QUIT BEING A PAIN. I exalt in their change of distressful tone.
Statesman Journal Struggles
Salem-News.com Letter to the EditorThe news cycle is no longer 24 hours. It is more like a ten minute news cycle.
(SALEM, Ore.) - 
Recent struggles by Statesman Journal editors to engage online media, echo sophomoric inability to adapt to online media. In his interview with Charlie Rose, Ken Auletta (recent author of GOOGLE) describes print editors as a poor fit for online media.
Rapid emergence of internet media has made print editors, their craft, their skills, print media, policies and content obsolete.
Cinebarre Theater Opens in Salem
Michelle Andujar & Jerry Freeman Salem-News.comAfter three months of renovations, Cinebarre executives cut the ribbon November 5 at the old Regal Movieland location, in the heart of Salem, on High and Marion Streets.
(SALEM, Ore.) - 
Cinebarre, the latest venue to open in Salem, promises to entertain the 18-and over crowd with the latest hit movies and a full restaurant menu, including beer and wine.
The grand opening tonight will feature A Christmas Carol, The Box and The Fourth Kind, among other new releases. Although most showings will be of first-run films, Cinebarre's special events include important sports games, Oscar parties, and sometimes classics.
OxyContin and Heroin Commission Report - State of Massachusetts
Marianne Skolek Salem-News.comAfter months of testimony and preparation, the State of Massachusetts today issued their report on "Recommendations of the OxyContin and Heroin Commission"
(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - 
The State of Massachusetts "is in the midst of a serious and dangerous epidemic. Prescription drug use is skyrocketing, opioid overdose deaths are steadily increasing and while support for these addiction treatment programs has increased, it is not sufficient to meet the needs of this growing problem."
"Based on the nearly 30 hours of oral testimony, thousands of pages of written testimony..."
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