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JACKSON COUNTY, Ore — Oregon has made a new keyword available for Jackson county residents to immediately sign up for fire evacuation alerts. The county continues to use Everbridge for its evacuation alerts. The new tools like the texting feature was adopted under the state’s new “OR-Alert” system. Residents can text “JACKSONEVACS” to (888-777). An auto message will reply with, “JACKSONEVACS: Thank you for signing up to receive all the level 1, 2, and 3 evacuation notices issued in Jackson County.” “It’ll support the other ways that we been alerting the communities,” Ho...

Civil Unrest 2020 City of Los Angeles Details On June 30, 2020, the Los Angeles City Council adopted a motion which instructed the Los Angeles Police Department to complete an analysis addressing the department’s crowd control tactics and compliance with existing departmental policies and legal mandates during the civil unrest resulting from the death of George Floyd.  The civil unrest and protests started on May 27, 2020 and continued for several weeks.  Initially the protests were initiated by individuals so that they could verbally express themselves in a no...

Oil supplies the United States with approximately 40% of its energy needs. Billions upon billions of gallons are pumped out of our wells, brought in from other countries, and shipped around to refineries all over the states. 1.3 million gallons of petroleum are spilled into U.S. waters from vessels and pipelines in a typical year. Yes, it would be great if we never spilled a drop of oil. No matter how hard we may try, though, the fact is that nobody is perfect, and oil spills are an inevitable consequence of our widespread use of oil.

History is never finished being written; it is under constant revision as new facts come to light. And this is true for the Battle of Midway.

Delaware is the first state in the region to announce a formal plan to review its response to the coronavirus pandemic. It will look back to see what the state did right, what it did wrong, and what it would do differently.