Like many I was content to look the other way at all the stories in the news about gun violence, thinking that nothing could ever change. For me that changed with The New Town School massacre.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to switch gears on more than 30 years of regulating the muddy water running off logging roads into rivers. At issue: Should the U.S.

When a floating dock the size of a boxcar washed up on a sandy beach in Oregon, beachcombers got excited because it was the largest piece of debris from last year's tsunami in Japan to show up on the West Coast.

COOS BAY, Oregon (AP) - Several thousand Oregon Coast residents on alert after last year's devastating earthquake in Japan took part in their first tsunami evacuation drill Thursday, stopping what they were doing and walking uphill to assembly points where volunteers handed out bottles of water and grab-bags of essentials.Unlike a real tsunami, there were no sirens and no tremors from a massive offshore earthquake in the towns of Coos Bay, North Bend and Charleston.

Jeff Barnard called Margaret this last week and asked if we were watching the Weather Channel or looking at weather Web sites. He said there...

I have had nothing to do with the "IHH deals" mentioned in Jeff Barnard's letter that appeared in Friday's Empire. All I know is what has been reported in the press, which I assume Mr. Barnard...

Old-fashioned ideas A letter by JEFF BARNARD How do you do it, I asked my good friend T. Pickens...Not when we're done, they won't, said T.P. Jeff Barnard Juneau Share this page: Print Reddit Archives How...

...Letters Word of Mouth provides a service A letter by JEFF BARNARD Thanks for the column on WOM. WOM is something I look...of use so WOM it must be until everyone is online. Jeff Barnard Share this page: Print Email Digg Twitter Yahoo! Reddit...

...McConnochie agrees with Errol Champion's attack on Mark Wheeler and SEACC in the Tuesday night letters to the editor. If she does, this does not bode well for her "consensus building" or "Spirit of Community." Jeff Barnard Juneau

...to know what our fellow citizens are thinking about. I think the Empire or Juneau Web forums would be superior alternatives to the WOM. Unfortunately, they are not getting a lot of use so WOM it must be until everyone is online. Jeff Barnard