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Made Popular Jul 30 2008
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The Portland Business Journal reports that Oregon has just been given the go-ahead by The Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council to build a 909 MW wind farm in the north-central part of the state. That’s enough energy to power 200,000 homes.

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May 3 2009 by AP0 Comments

Jack Ely, the singer whose 1963 version of “Louie Louie” still makes the rounds on oldies radio, lives with his wife in a mobile home on a horse ranch in Oregon. Ely says they share $30,000 a year from her teacher’s pension and his Social Security checks.

 
 
Apr 30 2009 by AP0 Comments

The Commerce Department released $53 million to Oregon and California on Thursday to help West Coast salmon fishermen after the third fishery failure in four years.

 
 
Apr 29 2009 by AP0 Comments

A man convicted of helping the Taliban has testified at a terrorism trial that he tried to create a militant jihad training camp in Oregon but he no longer supports terrorist causes.

 
 
Apr 29 2009 by AP0 Comments

Wichita-based Cessna Aircraft Co. is laying off 2,300 workers and closing its Oregon plant as it tries to restructure amid declining plane orders.

 
 
Apr 28 2009 by AP0 Comments

A lawyer for an Oregon high school student told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the public education system failed to address the boy’s learning problems and then improperly denied his parents reimbursement after they enrolled him in a private school.

 
 
Apr 21 2009 by AP0 Comments

The governors of Oregon and California are asking the federal government to declare another West Coast salmon fishery failure _ the third in four years.

 
 
Apr 20 2009 by AP0 Comments

The warm applause that greeted former Oregon star Aaron Brooks at the Rose Garden in the first game of the playoff series between the Houston Rockets and the Portland Trail Blazers won’t likely be repeated.

 
 
Apr 16 2009 by AP0 Comments

The top 10 “American Idol” contestants know how they’re spending their summer vacation: on a nationwide concert tour kicking off in July in Oregon.

 
 
Apr 16 2009 by AP0 Comments

A motion-detector camera has photographed two wolves killing lambs on a ranch in Eastern Oregon _ the first documented wolf attack on livestock in Oregon since they started moving into the state in 1999.

 
 
Mar 17 2009 by AP0 Comments

Rep. Peter DeFazio met with a top official from the Transportation Security Administration after the Oregon lawmaker complained about being singled out for special security screening at Portland International Airport.

 
 
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