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PTSD Sissies and the Most Decorated World War Two Veteran: Audie Murphy

To see if I was on the right track, I Googled PTSD SISSIES on my computer and there it was, including several miserable articles stating in effect that PTSD just like the holocaust did not/does not occur.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I have had many email responses to my articles on PTSD and disgusting medical mis-management by the Army and the VA. Some emails say PTSD Vets are just whiners and wimps, it’s only in their heads and trash like that.

Well to start with the PTSD demons ARE in our heads and they are stuck there. Medical articles state that PTSD symptoms reappear even 50 years later. I can attest as they are still with me after 65 years.

Eternal Life

Life experiences from our writer who specializes in matters of religion and faith.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - From my own experience, and from being told by relatives and friends, I know that deceased persons - or those on the verge - have involved themselves briefly in the lives of the living, often for the purpose of comforting them. They are not experiences about which one is prone to speak, but neither will they likely ever forget.

They seem to occur in the solitude of the moment, in the mind where what occurs is not discernible to others, but not always.

Rehabilitation of Salem`s 17th Street Set to Begin in Coming Days

Salem Streets and Bridges Bond Measure kicks off with pavement resurfacing improvements on 17th Street NE from Silverton Road NE to Oak Street SE.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The City of Salem has announced that pavement rehabilitation of 17th Street NE is scheduled to begin the week of June 15th 2009, and be complete by October 30th.

This project will be constructed by Salem Road and Driveway, and will include grinding off a portion of the existing asphalt pavement and replacing it with a new asphalt overlay.

Op Ed: `Californication`
Looming Large
On Tax Posture

Desperation May Drive Initiative-Wars to Extremes.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Corporate and labor leaders now need desperately to join the Oregon Legislature in swallowing hard, then taking a deep breath, before taking any decisive step: WHATEVER IT TAKES to resolve and remedy the resounding results of the Senate votes-debacle.

ALL involved must NOW calm down, recapture AND clear minds, to concentrate on the COMMONWEAL and on COLLABORATION. For this one, at this time, under these once-in-a century economic “insecurities” (!), COMPETITION may cause complete consternation --first for perpetrators and later for all, as we reap the INEVITABLE, NOW UNAVOIDABLE rapacious PUBLIC-SERVICE impacts.

Salem Police Arrest Suspect Who Grabbed Women From His Bike

Police say the suspect was already under supervision as a sex offender convicted of Rape.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem Police have arrested a suspect who they say rode his bicycle up behind women and grabbed them in the buttocks on June 9th in southeast Salem. Salem Police Lt Dave Okada says officers investigated three separate incidents June 9th, where a male suspect on a bicycle rode up behind people and attempted to grab them.

"He actually did grab two adult females in the buttocks and also attempted to grab at a 9-year old child, but was unsuccessful in actually making contact in that case," Okada said.

Teen Girl Survives Fatal Traffic Crash on I-5 North of Albany (UPDATE)

61-year old James Paul Marlowe Jr, died in the crash and 17-year old Levi Brown was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

(ALBANY, Ore.) - Oregon State Police troopers are investigating a single vehicle fatal traffic crash north of Albany that happened along the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 at approximately 1:15 p.m.

Oregon City Woman Dies in Two-Vehicle Crash

This fatal traffic crash investigation remains under investigation by the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.

(OREGON CITY) - The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office has completed family notifications and is publicly identifying a driver who died around 5:21 a.m. in a crash on South Redland Road in Oregon City. Det. Jim Strovink with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office says the driver is identified as 25-year old Jacquelyn Diane Price of Oregon City.

Jacquelyn Price died at the scene of the crash and was reported to have been seat-belted while in operation of her automobile, according to investigators. She was driving a light blue 1995 Honda Accord sedan.

MPP Condemns Prison Sentence for Medical Marijuana Defendant Charles C. Lynch

Law-Abiding Medical Marijuana Collective Was Licensed by City.

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - The Marijuana Policy Project strongly condemned today's federal sentencing of Charles C. Lynch, a California medical marijuana provider who worked scrupulously to follow state and local laws but now faces one year and one day in federal prison.

"Years from now, Mr. Lynch may well be remembered as the last American to go to federal prison for a mistake, the final victim of an already repudiated policy well on its way to the ash heap of history, but whose mean-spirited effects still linger," said MPP executive director Rob Kampia.

Keeping a Clear Picture for the DTV Switch Friday

Unfortunately, local retailers have mostly been selling boxes in the $60 to $100 range, while the government coupons, still available for free, amount to a $40 savings on the cost of the box.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - For one of America's favorite pastimes, the digital age starts this Friday. It's the official day for the switch to digital television signals or "DTV," and it means Oregonians accustomed to watching free, over-the-air programs on older television sets need to have a digital converter box hooked up - or all they'll see is snow on the screen.

Jonathan Lawson, executive director of the Northwest-based advocacy group Reclaim the Media, says television stations have been doing a good job explaining that the change is near. However, the people who depend on older-model sets with the "rabbit-ear" style antennas also happen to be the viewers least likely to know about switch.

Economic Downturn Will have Severe, Far-Reaching Effects on Global Health

Resources for disease surveillance are often cut back during difficult economic times, jeopardizing the systems we rely on to identify and deal with emerging diseases – including the current swine flu epidemics.

(LONDON) - The health of millions of people worldwide is at risk as a result of the financial crisis, says Dr Andrew Robertson, in an editorial published online in Emerging Health Threats Journal.

The world economy is currently in the midst of the most significant recession since the 1930s. The crisis has proved devastating for national economies, and the effects on health care will be felt worldwide as health spending falls, unemployment rises, and international aid is cut.