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The Museum of the Bible unveiled its Holy Week celebration, which includes its first in-house film production, special exhibits and performances to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.
In Violent Chicago, Young Men Brave Bullets to Reach Summer Safe Havens By Cara Ding Cara Ding Cara is a Chicago-based Epoch Times reporter covering the Midwest. Her coverage is varied, but she especially likes to write people-focused features. She can be reached at cara.ding@epochtimes.com. CHICAGO—Summer is the most violent season for Chicago, and it is also the most bountiful. Money from all directions is poured into the violent neighborhoods to prop up summer programs of all kinds, to create safe havens for innocent kids, and to steer troubled young men away from street life. Chicago po...
Dozens of commissioners urge Brown to reconsider risk levels The letter to the governor was signed by nearly 80 commissioners, including the Lane County chair. Posted: Apr 28, 2021 5:50 PM Updated: Apr 29, 2021 7:39 AM Posted By: Bob Schaper EUGENE, Ore. -- Nearly two-thirds of all county commissioners in the state of Oregon, including all five Lane County board members, signed a letter urging Gov. Kate Brown to give counties more decision-making authority on COVID-19 restrictions. "The time has come to allow our communities the opportunity to move forward while embracing continued health a...
DeSmog Feb 6, 2020 @ 03:00 Emails exchanged between an Oregon county commissioner and Pembina, the parent company of the proposed $10 billion fossil fuel export terminal Jordan Cove, raise ethics issues and may create openings for legal challenges to key permits for the controversial Jordan Cove project. The emails, obtained via an open records request by the Energy and Policy Institute and shared with DeSmog, appear to show contacts between Pembina officials and Coos County commissioners — communications that were not disclosed during public hearings. Oregon law generally requires communi...
New Timber Taxes Proposed, Industry Says They Can’t Afford Them March 10, 2021 In 1991, the Oregon state legislature passed a measure reducing what was known as the “severance tax,” which collected revenue from logging companies for trees cut on privately owned land. This was intended to reduce the hardship which companies said they were suffering from the reduction in the amount of logging they were able to do on land owned by the state and federal governments as a result of measures taken to protect wildlife. Timber companies warned that if they were not given this tax relief, they we...