The Oregonian has a piece on the last mill in Grant County.  It is worth the read.

Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler writes about the future and the present of communicating in the latest edition of NACo's County News. 

DOGAMI (The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries) is going to stay in Baker County thanks to a deal worked out with the Chair of the Board of County Commissioners, the State Geologist and two key Legislators.  The Baker County Herald has the story.   

Multnomah County is going to grow organic crops for the Oregon Food Bank.  The story appears in the Oregonian.

NACo brought the WIR Annual Conference to Pendleton this week and Pendleton responded with open arms.  The East Oregonian opined on the conference and what it means. 

While the painful cuts in budgets at the state and county levels are debated, sometimes the non-human elements of those cuts aren't always out there.  Here's a story from the Roseburg News-Review that shows what happens.

The headline on the editorial in the Oregonian reads Rural Oregon has energy to burn.  It's worth reading.

Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley's first bill as a U.S. Senator is to create a federal task force to explore sustainable revenue sources for timber counties.  The first story appeared in the Bend Bulletin. 

The Baker City Herald has another version of Senator Merkley's first bill.

Curry County has assembled a blue ribbon committee to look at what might happen to the county's ability to provide adequate law enforcement when federal forest payments end.  The story appears in the Curry County Pilot.

Douglas County is making rock available to some homeowner associations for their roads.  The story appears in the Roseburg News Review. 

The federal stimulus bill has $7.2 billion in it for broadband.  The Wall Street Journal says its up for grabs. 

Lincoln County is tackling the budget crisis with furloughs and frozen paychecks.  The Lincoln City News Guard has the story.