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Op-Ed: Long-Denied Dollars
Threaten Life-Chances
For Oregon’s Learners

Best State Investment Shut Down For Political Purposes.

(SALEM) - Recognized universally as an absolute foundation needed for ANY equal-chance-for-all, “Educational Opportunity” is known as “the best possible investment any nation can make” for both current developments and future potentials.

Op Ed: TABOR was POISON
In Colorado One-Shot:
Is THIS Oregon`s Future ?

Best Witness: Single State Operation Now Abandoned.

(SALEM) - "Ask the family that owns one.” That has always been a common-sense pattern for proven-practical information on any major acquisition. SO let’s ask the Colorado state-family their experience when they “bought” TABOR.

We must value their insights: That’s the ONLY state ever operating a TABOR. It is easy to see-why !!

Approved in 1992, it rapidly brought disaster on every State of Colorado activity.

Op-Ed: Mel Gibson: And We Were Actors

Mel Gibson Apologizes for his behavior as cops in LA maintain that the arrest was "without incident."

(MALIBU, Ca.) - By now, most people have heard about actor/producer Mel Gibson's alleged unruly behavior during a drunk driving arrest in Malibu, California last week. Gibson allegedly made anti-semitic remarks toward the arresting deputy, and that was just the start of it.

Now the actor has offered a public apology, but for what? LA County says nothing happened. Hmmm, too much smog?

The LA County Sheriff's Department has been accused of doctoring the report, and their apparent desire to act as if nothing out of the norm happend during the course of Gibson's arrest, is hard to believe, especially in light of Gibson's own admissions.

Op-Ed: Nanotechnology Heavily Funded as People Suffer

As Oregon struggles to feed and care for its citizens, millions will be invested in companies that build military equipment. The word is nanotechnhology and it has little to do with making life better for people here.

(SALEM) - One of the terms the Bush administration has brought forward in recent years is nanotechnology, and now Oregon learns that billions of dollars will come to our state to help develop the various different nanotechnologies that our nation is using to build its military might in a time of war.

That sounds good right?

What it means in reality, is that all sorts of private companies are going to receive big bucks to do things like lining Freightliner trucks with armor, they get $35 million for that.

Op-Ed: Oregon Family Tax Cut Measure Approved For The November Ballot

The measure would force deep cuts in the amount of money allocated for Oregon's already fragile school system, public safety and human services.

(SALEM) - FreedomWorks Oregon members, led by state Director Russ Walker, are cheering the news that their efforts to qualify a tax relief ballot measure have succeeded.

But in an age when the poor are growing increasingly hungry, Freedomworks' slogan, "More Money for Education Not the Solution" is considered offensive to the vast majority of Oregon educators who dedicate their lives to teaching kids.

Many in Oregon view it as the latest attempt by conservatives to save money for the state's wealthier citizens at the sake of Oregon's most challenged residents, while at the same time, striking out at the reduced budgets of police and schools.

Op Ed: `Copper-Canisters` Provide
The Only Campaign-Test
Oregonians Need

We often focus too far-and-wide on what is in Oregon’s future; while forgetting, for a while what's still there as witness from our past.

(SALEM) - Throughout the Ages-past, what populations did to honor their ancestors has historically measured their level of culture.

That single criterion is seen as reflecting cultural concern for others; and thus the cooperative necessity we are still learning as the only true-and-solid binder for modern society. Even though the concept was surely communicated clearly by our Founders in that first Revolution.

Compassion encompasses the entire concept, at whatever levels it is allowed to operate.

Op-Ed: New Las Vegas Law Against Feeding Homeless Underscores City`s Real Motivations

The city most efficient at creating homeless people now says they will arrest you if you feed them.

(SALEM) - The city council of Las Vegas, Nevada took down the town's typical facade this week when they voted to make it illegal to feed homeless people in a park. No glitz, no neon, just the real heart of America's cruelest city laid open like a book.

Now I readily admit that I am no fan of Las Vegas, having survived five years in TV news there between '96 and '01 working for both the NBC affiliate and the FOX station. I think I could say that for the most part, I saw it all.

Op Ed:
Economic Pressures
Force Business Return
To Social Responsibility

Oregon Damages Demand CSR-Action vs “Confrontation”.

(SALEM) - Economic impacts on “essential middle” Americans multiplies pressure on business leaders. They must now reverse the widespread corporate sabotage of social responsibilities honored since our first Revolution.

Special reports in FORTUNE Magazine, seeking action in every state by local leaders, declare: “Corporate America needs a new play-book”; then spells out why “rules are changing” radically and rapidly...

Op Ed: Saxton Evades Tax-Reform
While Repairing Own Image
On PERS-Blunder Statement

Would-Be “Top Dog” Now Fears Own-Bite Consequences.

(SALEM) - Any sensible manager avoids overly-aggressive action or statements that leave workers under vain threat or unfair pressure.

Workers these days, union-protected or not, simply do not respond well to an arrogant, insensitive approach. Government-agency operations are especially vulnerable, demanding effective professional understanding rather than crass confrontation.

Working attitude, acceptance and ongoing motivations are already under pressures from prevailing compensation in private employment.

OpEd:
Adam Smith Dead-Right;
But Corporate Corruption
Distorts Care-Filled Approach

Philosopher-Economist Built Concept On Cooperation

(SALEM) - Famed for his “invisible hand” concept creating “great good out of much greed”, Adam Smith has been the mighty mogul of “free-market” economics ever since 1776.

His revelatory summary of trading transactions, tracing now-common/sense understandings of trading motivations and sales management, was one of the first to trace the fundamental economic mechanism.