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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018 ODOT will expand use of salt on dangerous winter roads By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau Oregon Department of Transportation Test results suggest using salt can reduce weather-relat- ed crashes. U.S. 95 in southeastern Oregon between Nevada and Idaho that was tested as part of the pilot program. Since the 1990s, the state has used a liquid chemical deicer, which isn’t always enough to keep snow and ice from bonding to pavement, ODOT says. The state has largely Oregon State Treasury pushes gun safety reforms on manufacturers Associated Press SALEM — Oregon has joined a coalition of states intent on changing how they invest money in the firearms industry to push gun safety reforms. The Statesman Journal reports the move by the Ore- gon State Treasury — which manages the multi-billion-dol- lar Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund — reflects an increased level of scrutiny for gun-related manufacturers not just from the halls of Con- gress, but from low-profile corners of state government that seek to influence how the industry does business. The coalition’s invest- ing principles support uni- versal background checks, safer technology for firearms and training for gun retail employees. The principles aren’t a set of rules that forbid any invest- ment in the industry. Instead, they are a broader framework for investors doing business with companies. Oregon joins California, Connecticut, Florida, Maine and Maryland in the coali- tion. In their entirety, member states manage more than $4.8 trillion, much of it for govern- ment retirees. “As a fiduciary of a large, diversified investment port- OREGON CAPITAL INSIDER Get the inside scoop on state government and politics! We’re investing in Salem coverage when other news organizations are cutting back. OregonCapitalInsider.com folio, we frequently engage companies and encourage them to operate in ways that increase the odds of strong long-term returns and to reduce future investment risks,” Oregon State Trea- surer Tobias Read said in a statement. “Without (these gun safety principles) we do not believe the current path is sustainable.” The Oregon pension fund’s investment in the firearms and munitions manufacturing sec- tor is a tiny part of the state’s overall portfolio — just a frac- tion of 1 percent. The fund has positions in four companies with a net value that was less than $7 million in November 2017, when the state last ran a report on its holdings in the firearms sector. At the time, the fund’s total assets were about $78 billion, Treasury officials said. Kevin Starrett, director of the Oregon Firearms Fed- eration, said Read’s actions are “typical of Oregon and Democrats.” “They think if we don’t invest in companies that are firearms-related, we’re going to hurt them somehow, but all they do is make their stocks available to other people like me,” Starrett said. “It’s what Oregon Democrats are about. It’s symbolism and show and amounts to nothing.” Q: What is “Ransomware?” LEO FINZI We stock 1000’s of parts, cables, accessories, etc. for phones, TVs, Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 11-4 computers, and Astoria, OR tablets. 503-325-2300 clicks on a link or opens an attachment that stealthily installs a virus on a computer. This was the No. 1 cause of ransomware attacks in 2017. 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On the first eleven miles of Interstate 5 north of the Califor- nia border, the average number of winter crashes dropped from 115 to 54 after the state’s trans- portation department started using solid salt on a trial basis. Because of the apparent success of that pilot program and directives from the Legis- lature, the state will continue to use salt sparingly on some major roadways this winter. While it can be difficult to peg the exact cause of crashes, and the figures fluctuate from year to year, officials found that the two areas they tested as part of a pilot program from 2012 to 2017 saw a decline in crashes after they tried salt. “It was amazing to see,” said Dave Thompson, a spokesman avoided solid salt, which can have deleterious environmen- tal effects and is expensive to store. Solid salt has the same chemical composition — sodium chloride — as table salt. 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