Veto threat leaves county aid in limbo.
Byline: Edward Russo The Register-Guard Timber payments to Lane and other Oregon counties gained approval in the House on Friday, but roadblocks tied to the war in Iraq still loom ahead. The emergency war spending bill approved by the House for Iraq and Afghanistan includes...

Funding crisis bearing down on courthouse.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Faye Stewart For The Register-Guard CORRECTION (ran Jan. 30, 2007): Because of an editor's error, a Jan. 26 guest viewpoint by Lane County Commissioner Faye Stewart listed the wrong deadline for the county Board of Commissioners to decide whether to place a tax...

Why enact tax? Numbers tell the story.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT: LANE COUNTY'S FISCAL CRISIS By Jim Hale For The Register-Guard Why did they do it? Why did the Lane County commissioners enact an income tax without a vote of the people? Why did the district attorney, the sheriff, city councilors...

The right message.
Byline: The Register-Guard Critics of Lane County's new income tax have variously depicted the three commissioners who voted last month to enact it as: Mini-tyrants who, by enacting an income tax instead of putting it before voters, committed the mortal sin of "taxation without represen-...

Why just public safety?
Byline: The Register-Guard Lane County doesn't have one budget problem. It has two, and that fact has created confusion as the Lane County Board of Commissioners gropes for a budget strategy. The course described in the editorial above will not solve both problems. But the county board...

Town to seek compensation for jail; Chandler to aid West Boylston.
Byline: Jean Laquidara Hill WEST BOYLSTON - If the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction in this town is going to be expanded, as Sheriff Guy W. Glodis has proposed, the Board of Selectmen plans to join state Sen. Harriette L. Chandler, D-Worcester, in asking for...

BRIEFLY.
Byline: The Register-Guard Bail cut for driver held in musicians' deaths A Salem woman accused of driving the wrong way on Interstate 5, causing a crash that killed two musicians of the Eugene Symphony on Feb. 11, remains in the Linn County Jail...

The Minneapolis Foundation Names Sandra Vargas President & CEO.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Trustees of The Minneapolis Foundation today announced that Sandra Vargas, Hennepin County administrator, will join the Foundation as president and chief executive officer April 1. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070122/CGM047 ) "We are thrilled to welcome such an accomplished leader to The Minneapolis...

A matter of history.
Byline: The Register-Guard Based on the raw numbers, it's not hard to understand why other states say they deserve bigger slices of the federal payments pie if Congress renews the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act. The county payments program, which expired last year,...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Green recall effort irresponsible Although sorely tempted, I have not elected to write a letter to the editor during the 14 years I have been a Lane County circuit judge. However, I cannot now sit idly by while totally irresponsible individuals seek...