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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2015
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Compiled by Bob Duke
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago this week — 2005
Clatsop County woke up with its Port Commission intact after three mem-
bers who supported the Calpine lease survived a challenge from opponents of
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world has come upon us so seem-
ingly quickly that it has created
wreckage that people struggle to
understand.
In the business world, one
learns to be wary of online com-
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people talk big, take your money
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online world invades a family,
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ents about the kidnapping story,
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thusiasm from the mostly teenaged and young adult crowd.
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owners and business alike, since Crown Zellerbach corporation
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industry at the Beaver site appeared.
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higher construction costs here, climatic requirements for more costly build-
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with trees in all sections of the town badly infested, numerous res-
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road still persists. In some places they have invaded automobiles
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solution of the problem is up to individual residents.
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of Cabbages and Kings
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parents drove here to pick her up.
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If you follow national news
stories, you have read about B.B. King, left, and an accompanist perform during the opening of the
the tragic outcomes of online 1980 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. King died Thursday,
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what the Internet has added to
the adventure of childhood and
There was joy in B.B. King’s
child-rearing. Now we have this
most recent example.
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duct a census.
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Astoria has lost population in the past two decades. It seems
obvious from the above statistics that the people we have lost are
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communities which have had jobs to offer them that Astoria could
not.
This population analysis shows why we need industry here.
‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things;
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax —
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of them focused on their mobile
devices, not on each other. And,
yes, sometimes these are mid-
dle-aged couples.
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last Sunday’s New York Times
Style section was about a young
woman who grew tired of a rela-
tionship that was more electronic
than personal. Being unable to
get commitment from her boy-
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years older and this is how she
described the new experience.
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eye-to-eye conversations about
books (actual hold-them-in-
your-hands books!) and about
our ideas and hopes, unencum-
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By DAVID BROOKS
New York Times News Service
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