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The Benton County Budget Committee has recommended a $363 million spending plan for the 2021-23 budget cycle. The plan will be reviewed by the Benton County Board of Commissioners at its June 15 meeting, and commissioners can choose to amend it at that time. The budget is more than $50 million more than the 2019-21 two-year cycle, with federal funding and higher property tax revenue the key drivers, said Mary Otley, the county’s chief financial officer. Now to the fight against the coronav...

The seal was “a phrase that gives rise to the opioid epidemic,” says Patrick Radden Keefe, a New Yorker journalist, author of the book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, in the HBO documentary The Crime of the Century, film-maker Alex Gibney’s expansive four-hour dive into morally bankrupt businesses which fueled the crisis. It was also a lie, one Purdue used as a catch-all shield to aggressively market OxyContin to doctors across the country as a safe pre...

Discovering anything about the Sackler family, let alone the innermost workings of its privately owned companies, is not easy. The earliest investigations into OxyContin and the emerging overdose crisis did not mention the Sackler family by name at all. Even a front-page story in The New York Times, “Cancer Painkillers Pose New Abuse Threat,” did not use the Sackler family name. This gets to a paradox at the heart of their story. The Sacklers donated lavishly to art museums and ga...

The war on drugs in the United States has been a failure that has ruined lives, filled prisons and cost a fortune. It started during the Nixon administration with the idea that, because drugs are bad for people, they should be difficult to obtain. As a result, it became a war on supply. As first lady during the crack epidemic, Nancy Reagan tried to change this approach in the 1980s. But her “Just Say No” campaign to reduce demand received limited support. Over the objections of the supply-f...

In Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe methodically and meticulously chronicles this tale of woe and crisis, indifference and corruption. His Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty lays bare the price exacted by the family’s drive for wealth and social mountaineering. The Sackler name came to dot the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, Tate Modern and the Louvre. They rose – others paid dearly. Keefe is a veteran writer at the New Yorker. His 2019 bestseller, Say Nothing, chillingl...

Rugged Display Market Size, 2021 Industry Growth, Regional Analysis & Outlook 2027 bmrcApril 15, 2021 is a Proficient and In-Depth Study on the Existing State of Rugged Display Industry. This Report Focuses on the Major Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities and Threats for Key Players. It also Provides Granular Analysis of Market Share, Segmentation, Revenue Forecasts and Regional Analysis till 2027. Industry-specific features are designed in the rugged displays which are leading to the ri...

Article content According to a discussion I had recently with Craig Collins of the Calgary Police Service, hate crimes and hate incidents against Asians and Asian Canadians in Calgary have increased dramatically lately. Thankfully, however, they have not reached the levels of violence in the great republican behemoth to the south. But Canada and Calgary must judge themselves by their own higher standards, and not the standards of any foreign country. Here, the levels of hate crimes and hate inc...

Published February 11. 2021 5:18PM  John S. Johnson It’s with great pleasure that I write the newspaper to not only refute disparaging information provided by David Collins’s column Feb. 9 , but to also talk about the mud-slinging campaign he is waging against the Connecticut Port Authority and its members. It’s uncalled for and serves no purpose other than to undermine the efforts of the authority to rebuild State Pier for the betterment of all of Connecticut – not just New London. Bu...

Benton County’s New $15,000 Logo, Behind the Scene Look February 10, 2021 On January 1, Benton County changed out its historic logo for something new. The rebranding included the new icon and logo, color scheme, designated brand font, and sub-brand logos for each County department.  Benton County Public Information Officer Alyssa Rash says that the County paid $14,900 for the County rebranding. The work was budgeted pre-COVID from the Public Information Fund.   “In fact, the consultant�...

The Corvallis City Council that begins its new term Monday 4 will be the first without Barbara Bull since 2015 and the first that did not include Nancy Wyse since 2017. Bull, who was originally elected in 2014, chose not to run for a fourth term. Wyse, who defeated the late Joel Hirsch, then a four-term incumbent, in 2016, has won election to the Benton County Board of Commissioners and will be sworn in Monday. Wyse replaces long-time Commissioner Annabelle Jaramillo on the three-person commiss...