http://www.aboutitall.com -- An Oregon Perspective -- Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:25:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en email me at rob.salzman@gmail.com if you want one. http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/12/07/google-wave-invitations-i-have-21-available/ I have three google voice invitations.  2 are available to the first two who email me at oregonblog at aboutitall dot com.    The other one is available to anyone who wants to trade for a Google Wave invitation... http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/10/29/google-voice-invitations-available/ The Wheeler County Sheriff's Office says the Oct. 7 shooting death of a 61-year-old Portland hunter came during an altercation with a Scappoose family. Sheriff Bob Hudspeth says Frank Means got into a fight with three men and an 11-year-old boy also hunting at a remote site along the John Day ... http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/10/29/hunter-killed-in-altercation/ Image via Wikipedia Three masked men, one of them armed, ransacked a home on Hughes Street Wednesday, tying up three children and stealing one-and-a-half pounds of medical marijuana. The marijuana grower, a father of three who lives on the 1100 block of Hughes Street, told police that someone knocked on his door ... http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/10/29/oregon-city-medical-marijuana-grower-robbed-at-gunpoint/ Image via Wikipedia An Oregon business partnership, ORPET, plans to build a $10 million state-of-the-art plastic bottle recycling plant on Port of St. Helens-owned property, promising to create 50 new jobs when it begins operation next year. via (the South County Spotlight) http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/10/29/new-10-million-recycling-plant-near-st-helens/ The federal government has delivered on its promise to provide Portland with $75 million for a major streetcar extension. The funds represent redoubled efforts by the Obama administration to support electrified streetcar projects under a seven-year-old program designed to support small-scale urban transport improvement. Peter Rogoff, the administrator of the Federal ... http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/10/26/funding-a-desire-named-streetcar/ Clackamas County prosecutors said today they will not be charging a player or parent in a sideline squabble that broke out during a recreational youth football game. Deputy District Attorney Gregory D. Horner  said prosecutors reviewed police reports on   Saturday's incident in Sandy, concluding that there was no evidence of ... http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/10/23/prosecutors-decline-to-pursue-charges-in-youth-football-ruckus/ A 30-year-old Medford woman with swine flu has been placed on lifesaving equipment at a Portland hospital.Jacquelyn Cordero was in Legacy Emanuel Medical Center late Thursday, where she was connected to a machine that provides cardiac and respiratory support to patients whose heart and lungs are severely diseased or damaged. No ... http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/10/23/medford-swine-flu-patient-fighting-for-life/ A moderate earthquake struck deep in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon early this morning. The U.S. Geological Survey says a 4.1 magnitude quake hit shortly after 1:40 a.m., about 130 miles west-northwest of Bandon. The quake's epicenter was 6.2 miles deep -- as deep as a temblor that hit ... http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/10/23/4-1-magnitude-earthquake-hits-off-the-oregon-coast/ Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Bonneville Power Administration is proposing construction of a new 500-kilovolt transmission line to meet increasing demands for electricity along Washington and Oregon’s I-5 corridor. The line would meet growing local and regional energy demands and help bolster the BPA transmission system to accommodate energy ... http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/10/23/bpa-proposes-new-if-corridor-500-kilovolt-transmission-line/