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POrtland taXi prOteSt —About 50 taxi drivers parked in downtown Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square onTuesday to protest the city's approach to regulating ridesharing services such asUber. The Oregonian reports that a chief concern of the six cabcompanies that make upthe Transportation Fairness Alliance is the city's decision to exclude them from atask force reviewing Portland's for-hire transportation codes. SpokesmanNoahErnst said hethinks the taxi industry deserves aplace onthe task force. In December, Uber agreed to pauseits service for three months while the city updates its rules. Mayor Charlie Haleshassaid the task force will make recommendations by April 9. A spokesmanfor City Commissioner Steve Novick said neither taxis nor Uberare onthe task force in the interests of keeping it independent.
• Despite the defeat of Measure92 in the midterms,support for GMOlabeling is high By Mary Clare Jalonick
mal feed. Modified corn and
Bar stabbing senienClng —Amanconvicted ofkiling a Grants
The Associated Press
soybeans are also made into
Pass bar patron he didn't even knowhastold the victim's family he didn't know why hedid it. Britt Bones read a statement Monday in Josephine County Circuit Court saying hewas deeply sorry, but had no memory of stabbing 25-year-old Mike McCoylast March in the Red Rock Lounge. Boneswas sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder. Bar bouncer JasonGriffith told The Grants Pass Daily Courier there wereabout150 people in the bar when Bones suddenl yturnedandattackedMcCoy,whowasstanding behind him. Boneswas arrested the next day at his home in Selma, where there was a large marijuana growing operation.
T w o - popular processed food ingrethirds of Americans support dients such as corn oil, corn W ASHINGTON —
labeling of genetically modi- starch, high-fructose corn syrfied ingredients on food pack- up and soybean oil. ages, even if they may not read C urrently, the F ood a n d them, according to an Associ-
Drug Administration doesn't
ated Press-GfK poll. Fewer Americans say genetically modified ingredients are important in judging whether a food is healthy. About 4 in
require labeling of genetically modified foods and says
10 said the presence of such
right to know what is in their
Grower Robert Purdy stands in his field of genetically engineered
ingredients was very or extremely important. "If they are cheaper and they taste right to me, I'll buy it," says Jay Jaffe, of Philadelphia, who strongly supports labeling.
food, arguing not enough is
sugar beets near Salem last June. An Associated Press-GfK poll shows that two-thirds of Americans support labeling of genetically modified foods, even though a measure to do just that on the ballot in Oregon's midterms was narrowly defeated.
Five things to know about Americans' support for label-
ing of genetically modified ingredients:
It's about more than just GMOs Genetically modified organisms are foods grown from seeds engineered in labs. Jaffe says he has no problem buying GMOs, but he thinks there should be accountability in the food industry. "It should be there and not in small print," he said of GMO labels. "People should be able to make a choice." Genetically modified seeds
those on the market are safe.
Consumer advocates backing labeling say shoppers have a known about their effects.
Few oppose labeling
Cat killing —A Gresham manhaspleaded guilty to accusations he responded to being kicked out of the house bykilling his mother's cat. The Oregonianreports27-year-old JonathanWagnerfaces up to five years for animal abuse, up to 20 for burglary. Authorities said Wagner's behavior was threatening, so his mother boxed up some of his possessions in July. While shewasat work, police said, Wagner vandalized the houseandslit the throat of the cat, Tom, putting the body on his mother's bed. At the time, Wagnersaid hewasoff medications for depression andpsychotic episodes. His mother said he hadn't been diagnosedwith mental illness. Heentered the pleas Tuesday. Other chargeswere dismissed.
Gosia Wozniacka/The Associated Press file photo
According to the December AP-GfK poll, 66 percent
of Americans favor requiring food manufacturers to put labels on products that
servativeRepublicans, more than 6 in 10 favor a labeling
year, passing a law in May that will take effect in 2016 if it surrequirement. vives legal challenges. Maine Fifty-six percent of Ameri- and Connecticut passed laws cans under 30 favor a labeling before Vermont, but those mea-
contain genetically modified ingredients. Only 7 percent are opposed requirement — the lowest of to the labeling, and 24 percent any age group. Among that are neutral. age group, 8 percent oppose Of those who say it is only labeling, though, with most of moderately important to them theremainder sayingthey are if a food contains genetically neutral. modified ingredients, 68 perState labeling efforts are cent still favor labeling. And of those who say it isn't mixed important to t hem w hether Despite the wide public supa food contains genetically port, many state efforts have modified ingredients, only 20 faltered as the food industry percent oppose a labeling re- and seed companies such as quirement. Half of those peo- Monsanto have aggressively ple are neutral. fought attempts to force label-
sures don't take effect unless
neighboring states follow suit.
Congressmayweigh in
The bill by Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, would reaffirm that such food labels are voluntary,
overriding any state laws that require them. In a December congressional hearing on the issue, members of both parties were
diseases. Most of the country's
labeling were narrowly defeat- support labeling. Many quesed in California, Washington tioned whether mandatory and Oregon in recent years. GMO labels would be misleadVermont became the first ing to consumers since there state to require labels for ge- is little scientific evidence that
corn and soybean crop is now genetically modified, with 64 percent of Republicans famuch of that becoming ani- voring labeling. Among con-
netically modified foods last
skin cancerremoved
would block the state efforts.
ing. Ballot initiatives to require
GMOs was bipartisan, with 71 percent of Democrats and
Kitzhaber to haveminor
The food i ndustry h as pushed a bill in Congress that
are engineered to have cer-
tain traits, such as resistance Support cuts acrossgroups to herbicides or certain plant Public support for labeling
— From wire reports
The Associated Press
was identified as basal cell
S ALEM — G o v . J o h n carcinoma, a slow-growing Kitzhaber says he has been form ofthe disease.
less inclined than the public to
diagnosed with a minor form of skin cancer on his face.
Kitzhaber had a circular bandage on his cheek when
The governor told the Or-
he spoke to a business summit in Portland last week. A
egonian on Tuesday that he will undergo outpatient surgery in six to eight weeks to remove the pea-sized lesion from his left cheek.
such foods are unsafe.
Kitzhaber says the cancer
spokeswoman said he'd had a biopsy. Kitzhaber, a former emergency room physician, says he's "healthy as a horse."
With visitorsscarce, aSutherlin museum isnearly out of money • The Calapooia ReflectionsMuseum is doing itsbestto keep its doorsopen
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By Garrett Andrews
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The RoseburgNews-Review
SUTHERLIN — Some days,
no one comes in. On a great day at the Calapooia Reflections Museum,
five or six people might sign the guest book. Sutherlin's lone
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has put out the call for help. Michael Sullivan/The Roseburg News-Reviewvia The Associated Press The nonprofit, open two days Celepooia Reflections Museum Director Jo Barnes discusses the a week at 113 W. Central Ave.,
has enough money in savings to last maybe another four months, according to its director, Jo Barnes.
"We hope to get more in-
terest in the museum," said
Barnes, a retired librarian, erstwhile children's author, and the one-woman staff of the
future of the Sutherlin museum.
The museum's bylaws state that should it go under, its inventory should go to the Douglas County Museum.A representative of the Douglas
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4-year-old museum. People these days have too many other ways to entertain fundraisers. We don't know
A large portion of the museum's budget also comes from grants. But, critically, some funding requested this year did
how to get people out of their
not come through, Barnes said.
themselves, she said. "We struggle a lot with our
now-defunct Timber Days fes-
tival. In the back are logging and agricultural exhibits and homes." a marching band uniform with Reflections began as a col- an interestingback story. lection of historical items without a home. Barnes, six years
"A girl took home the uni-
form one day, and that night into retirement, stepped up and the school burned down," set up a small series of displays Barnes said. "It was the only near the old Franklin Drug uniform that survived." Store, moving the museum a These days the museum is year later to its current home, open from 1 to 4 p.m. Fridays a retail space in the heart of and Saturdays or by appointdowntown. ment. There's a donation box Today there are a series of at the front desk, and copies displays roped off in the former of the museum's three-volume location of Blue Skies Mercan- history, "Memories of Suthertile. An exhibit of life in the lin's Past" are for sale. 1940s features a living room But it doesn't charge admisfrom a time when families en- sion. To get by, the museum tertained themselves by read- hosts its a n nual C hocolate ing or listening to a prominent- and Wine Gala and Ladies ly placed radio. Tea fundraisers, though not all There are home baby scales, with success.
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The m useum's b ylaws state that should it go under, its inventory should go to the
Douglas County Museum. A representative of the Douglas County Museum said it's not
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Barnes said she tries to keep the past alive, so it doesn't die. "It's beautiful to look back,"
she said. "The food always tasted better on the wood stove,
with mom baking."
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