Oregon groups seek to ban chemical in baby bottles The Examiner Comments SALEM, Ore. (Map, News) - Environmentalists and health care providers say Oregon should ban a common industrial chemical from baby bottles, infant formula cans and infant "sippy cups." | The chemical, bisphenol A (pronounced BIS'-fen-all), is used in rigid plastics such as polycarbonate bot...
Calif. brown pelicans linger on Oregon coast The Examiner Comments PORTLAND, Ore. (Map, News) - California brown pelicans are begging for food on the Oregon coast rather than migrating south to breeding grounds. | An estimated 1,000 brown pelicans have remained on the state's coast, an unheard of number at a time of year when they should be in Mexico or So...
Oregon's Steen Mountain, prized for wilderness views, to get wind farm Seattle Times | FRENCHGLEN, Ore. - Ruggedly beautiful Steens Mountain stands in an area of southeast Oregon so isolated that it's barely changed since cattle king Pete French arrived in the late 1800s. | Coyotes yelp at sundown. Drivers are so few that they wave t...
NCAA: Oregon State, Stanford on top at Sunday meets The Examiner | Stanford freshman Ashley Morgan won her first NCAA all-around title Sunday night. Photo/SF Sports Examiner Michael Eng | Sunday was a night of steadiness in NCAA competitions. All the teams expected to win did so, and the individual winners's n...
Oregon home insurance costs among lowest in nation The Business Review Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | | | reCAPTCHA™ | Oregon homeowner insurance is among the least...
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Texas Winery Passport Program rewards Texas wine tourism The Examiner | Often overshadowed by wine giants California, Washington and Oregon, Texas is the fifth largest wine-producing state in the nation, with nearly 180 wineries, including a few wine...
Vulnerable mallards getting some help The Examiner Comments MEDFORD, Ore. (Map, News) - A fledgling group of duck and goose advocates is hoping a simple contraption of metal and grass will make a big splash in a waterfowl wonderlan...
Kellogg 4Q profit slips, raises 2010 outlook The Examiner Comments PORTLAND, Ore. (Map, News) - Food maker Kellogg Co. reported Thursday that higher costs and lower sales dampened its fourth-quarter profit, but it said it has positioned i...
Dear Mayor Daley: No way you're stealing our Oregon jobs Chicago Sun-Times | There's nothing like a Chicago brag to get you going. I read of Mayor Daley's plan to invade Oregon ["Daley wants to raid Pacific Northwest talent," Jan. 28] and lure businesses to Chicago, given that Oregon voters have approved a new business tax....
Stories from the central Oregon coast: flagging the recession blues away The Examiner | Trina Post holds a stop sign along BAy Boulevard in Newport, Oregon. Post is a mother of five. Photo by Dave Masko | *This is part three in a ten-part series about the central Oregon coast and how people here are fighting the recession blues. | By ...
Oregon trying to deal with faith-healing cult's child deaths The Examiner | Clackamas County in Oregon is home to the Followers of Christ Church, a 1,300 member sect that believes the only medicine anyone really needs is faith, religious ritual and the laying on of hands. Since the 1950s, news stories have h...
Oregon groups seek to ban chemical in baby bottles The Examiner Comments SALEM, Ore. (Map, News) - Environmentalists and health care providers say Oregon should ban a common industrial chemical from baby bottles, infant formula cans and infant "sippy cups." | The chemical, bisphenol A (pronounced BIS'-fen-all), is used in rigid plastics such as polycarbonate bottles, car bumpers and bicycle helmets, as well as ...
