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March 16, 2011
T Quake Shifted Earth’s Axis
Job Numbers Grow
I Last week's devastating earthquake
The Oregon Employment Depart
I and tsunami in Japan has actually
ment said Tuesday the state added
I moved the island nation and shifted
nearly 10,000jobs in February, the
the
planet's
axis..
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areas
closest
largest jum p since before the Great
I
I to the epicenter of the quake jumped Port O rford, G old Beach and Recession. Construction numbers
were up significantly, but the im
I a full 13 feet closer to the United Brookings.
States, according to the United
pact of job growth did not show up
I States Geological Survey.
Portland Stadium Renamed
in the unemployment rate, which
I
The Portland Timbers announced was 10.2 percent in February.
I Tsunami Hits Oregon Coast
Tuesday they had reached an agree
I Officials on the Oregon Coast will ment to rename their home field and KUFO Switches to News
I ask the federal governm ent for stadium Jeld-Wen Field, which re KUFO, the radio station that broad
I assistance after three ports were places the name of the downtown cast on 101.1 FM, switched to an all
I dam aged Friday by the tsunami landmark most recently called PGE news and right wing talk format
from the 9.0 earthquake Park. The first game in Jeld-Wen Tuesday, shocking the local music
I generated
in Japan. The waves caused as
I much as $ 13 million in damages at Field comes April 14 against the community. The station was a fa
TLWeek ¡n
The Review
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vorite for fans of rock and heavy
metal music.
Open Government Urged
Oregon Attorney General John
Kroger urged state lawmakers Mon
day to support legislation to make
governm ent m ore transparent.
Krogersaid his bill would eliminate
100 of the more than 400exemptions
government agencies have to the
state’s public records requirements.
Former Miss Teen Guilty
Guadalupe Quintero, a former Miss
Teen Clackam as County USA,
pleaded guilty to m anslaughter
Monday and a judge sentenced her
to 20 years in prison for her involve
ment in the death ofher boyfriend’s
5-year-old daughter. Police said the
girl had suffered one of the worst
cases of child abuse they had ever
seen.
Duckweed as Energy
An Ashland company has teamed
up with an East Coast engineer who
has figured out how to generate
cheap, clean electricity from duck
weed, and then use exhaust from the
generator to grow more duckweed.
Promoters said the sustainable sys
tem can be either small enough for a
single home or large enough for a
municipal utility.
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