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Coast Guard Cutter Maple Patrols Oregon Coast

Commissioned Oct. 19, 2001, Cutter Maple is operated by seven officers and a crew of 46 men and women.

(ASTORIA) - The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Maple, a 225-foot Juniper-Class buoy tender homeported in Sitka, Alaska, have spent the last three weeks along the West Coast repairing and replacing buoys vital to safe navigation and the flow of commerce.

Maple is now near the Oregon coast in the area normally patrolled by the Coast Guard Cutter Fir, homeported in Astoria, Ore.

Indigenous Participation is Essential to Af-Pak Study Group

It is time to let Afghans participate in the effort to halt their nation from spiraling into chaos.

(SEATTLE) - There has recently been a call for the establishment of an Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group (APSG) that will be modeled off the Iraq Study Group (ISG) of the Baker-Hamilton Commission.

The project is driven by the realization that this regional dilemma cannot be resolved militarily - it requires a political solution.

Pain Classified as a Disease?
Please, Give Us a Break

A declaration calls on governments and health-care institutions to establish laws, policies and systems that will help promote access to pain management.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - If "pain" is recognized as a "disease" and not a "symptom" -- there won't be enough hours in the day for the DEA, the DOJ, or the FDA to restrain the pharmaceutical industry drug cartels

Last week the first International Pain Summit was held in Montreal at the 13th World Congress on Pain. A "leading pain authority" by the name of Michael Cousins, an Australian anesthesiologist, reported that about 80 per cent of people with chronic pain do not get adequate relief and are suffering needlessly throughout the world.

Blowback: What Did Blair Expect?

Being lied to and misled into needless wars and other questionable adventures is not something we should have to accept. Some people do not, as Tony Blair is witnessing first hand.

(GOLD RIVER, B.C.) - Tony Blair has published his memoirs, A Journey. He is getting a lot of publicity for it, though probably not the kind that he was looking for. In Dublin at a book signing he was pelted with eggs and shoes by protesters who see him as a war criminal.

His next event in London was cancelled for fear of more of the same. What did he expect?

My Medical Marijuana History

I see it as the Queen of all herbs, with euphoria-inducing and life-preserving qualities... and need “euphoria” be a bad thing?

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - When Medical Marijuana passed in Oregon in November of 1998, I became a patient as soon as I was able to find a doctor who would sign my application.

My motivation for becoming a patient was to become legal to use a medicine, namely Cannabis, or marijuana, which, I had found, through experimentation, to help me with my physical, mental, and neurological health, as well as to provide a profound sense of peace of mind.

Portland Police Deal With Male Jumper on I 205 Bridge - PHOTOS

Tragedy was avoided Sunday in Portland when police talked a suicidal man out of leaping from an Oregon freeway bridge.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - A man threatening to jump from a bridge on the Interstate 205 freeway in Portland Sunday drew a large police response and halted traffic as teams tried to talk the man out of leaping hundreds of feet into the water below.

Agent Orange Poisoning in Australian Veterans: They Suffer Too

I hope the American System is more realistic about the hideous danger of Dioxins. It is unfortunate that Dioxins have no immediate or acute toxicity but a particular Australian writer we recently published is correct; it is almost certainly the most deadly chemical produced by man.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Salem-news.com is very fortunate to have an Australian Veteran post this article for us and American Vietnam Veterans. It is one of the most educational but concise reviews I have seen on the subject.

I may have had among the first patients poisoned by the Dioxins in 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T in the world but I did not know it or about the Dioxins at the time.

A Litmus Test for Leaders `Is This Thing Still Flying?

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve." - Buckminster Fuller

(CHARLESTON, S.C.) - Writing for Reader’s Digest a few years back, Captain Alan Bean writes about his Apollo 12 mission. Bean states, “Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask,”Is this thing still flying?” If the answer is yes, then there’s no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

Salem-News.com Offers News Training, Seeks Advertising Sales Assistants

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(SALEM, Ore.) - Six years and almost 16,000 articles later, Salem-News.com is publishing more fresh and interesting stories than ever before. The site has also been setting records for traffic, and gaining new visitors. With more than 60 writers, our size and subsequent role in the world of online journalism accelerated faster than expected over the last two years.

Before I continue with a great deal of information about the site, I want to announce that we are looking for a few people who have an interest in becoming involved with our operation.

Detroit Stabbing Ends in Bloody Scene in Local Bar

A bloody night in the normally quiet town of Detroit, Oregon led to a stabbing, arrest, and recovery of a loaded gun in the vehicle of the stabbing victim.

(DETROIT, Ore.) - A reported fight between friends in Detroit, Oregon led to a man entering Cedar's Restaurant and Lounge Friday night shortly after 9:00 p.m., with a serious stab wound to the arm. Dennis Osbourn had just sat down for dinner.

"There was a good amount of blood, and I guess it wasn't that life threatening but it sure looked like it. He dribbled all the way across the street into the bar and against the wall and then there was a puddle."