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Best US Colleges for Professional Athletes 2023

Finding the right college plays a significant role in your professional athletics career.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Many graduating high schoolers have dreams of being a professional athlete. For them, finding a good college is the first step, including researching the sports programs of whatever colleges they want to attend.

Though most colleges have sports programs, some have better programs than others.

Think QNET Is a Scam? Take a Look at All the Awards It Has Won So Far

CNET is one of Asia’s premier e-commerce-based direct sales companies with a presence in more than 25 countries worldwide.

(SALEM, Ore.) - At the 2021 Vega Digital Awards, its mobile app took home the top prize in the Mobile Apps & Sites category. The mobile app allows distributors to conveniently run their business from the all-in-one platform.

CNET also won multiple prizes at the 2022 AVA Digital Awards.

Regrettably, U.S. Provided Cluster Munitions To Ukraine

One third of all recorded cluster munitions casualties are children.

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA.) - I served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. After the war, I returned to Vietnam with my wife as a tourist. We visited North and South Vietnam and then went on to Cambodia and Laos.

It was a fascinating but sobering visit.

Willamette National Forest Bedrock Fire Update

The fire was 4,488 acres as of early Tuesday morning.

(LOWELL, Ore.) - The Bedrock Fire, east of Springfield, continues to burn actively in the Fall Creek drainage.

Hot, dry weather combined with gusty winds have contributed to periods of rapid fire growth.

Failed Fukushima System Should Cancel Wastewater Ocean Dumping

The global ban on ocean dumping of radioactive waste adopted in 1993 applies only to "barrels" (not pipes, or hoses).

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - From the Fukushima-Daiichi triple-reactor meltdown wreckage, Japan’s government and “Tepco,” the owner, are rushing plans to pump 1.37 million tons (about 3 billion pounds) of radioactive wastewater into the Pacific.

Their record is poor. Their lies are documented. This is not safe, at all.

APB: China`s Faltering Economy and Its Implications

Mexico has replaced China as the US’s biggest trade partner.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - China’s economy is going through some of the same growing pains that Japan once experienced: lower consumer spending, overbuilding on homes and offices, local government debt that runs into the trillions of dollars, and high unemployment among young people.

The run of impressive growth rates seems to be over; it’s now hovering around three percent.

IronMan 70.3 Comes to Salem this Weekend

During the event, Peter Courtney Minto-Island Bridge will be Closed (July 23)

(SALEM, Ore.) - Becoming an IRONMAN for the first time is a life-changing experience. That moment will come this weekend, as athletes from around the world take part in this year’s IRONMAN 70.3 Oregon.

IRONMAN will host thousands of athletes as they compete in the more than 70-mile racecourse through the heart of Salem and the Willamette Valley.

New Series on KPFK Features Voices of Land Defenders and Environmental Justice Advocates

Creative FRONTLINE airs on KPFK, from Producers Robert Lundahl and Tracker Quinone

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - The new series on KPFK features "voices from the frontline," from Producers Robert Lundahl and Tracker Quinone (Apache).

The mission of this collective is determined by the issues of development and inequity becoming more prominent, more destructive, and occurring now across California and the West, with little oversight.

Evil Gap

No country on Earth admits to developing or possessing biological weapons.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - In the 1950s we were warned that the Soviet Union had so many more strategic bombers than we did it was a "bomber gap." But the gap was actually in "favor" of the US.

The bomber gap was a lie told to the American people but highly profitable to corporations in the bomber business.

Seeing Our Way to Peace

Those who constantly build for war, who declare and wage war, have altogether lost their sight such that no moral compass remains visible.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - In 1918 the painter John Singer Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to visit the fields of France to capture on canvas a scene depicting the World War then engulfing the continent.

The artist was unsure he could find a single scene to perform such a formidable task.