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COOS BAY — A local work group continues to tweak agreements surrounding the Community Enhancement Plan. The CEP work group met Monday, poring over the Waterfront Development Partnership work group’s recommendations and a draft enterprise zone agreement between Jordan Cove and the four member entities. The overarching CEP is proposed to inherit Jordan Cove’s community service fee payments, if the liquefied natural gas facility gets the go-ahead and if it receives a long-term rural enterprise zone property tax exemption. From there, the CEP branches off into the South Coast Community Foundation (a nonprofit dedicated to enhancing school districts in Coos, western Douglas and northern Curry counties), the Waterfront Development Partnership (an intergovernmental agency devoted to waterfront and economic development) and the North Spit taxing entities.
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The flags on the Coos Bay Boardwalk may be changing if the city council approves the recommendation of its flag committee. The committee suggested flags representing local governments, Western states and international trade partners.
“I like the idea because we’re open to trade and welcoming of other cultures.” Councilor Mark Daily
“I like the idea because we’re open to trade and welcoming of other cultures,” Councilor Mark Daily said. While the American flag will no longer dominate the city’s flag poles as part of the committee’s proposal, it would remain a prominent fixture.
The committee suggested the American flag bookend the flags running north and south on the Boardwalk. The American flags running along Central Avenue toward City Hall would also remain in place.
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driver of a 2007 Mustang. In that case, the Mustang was going 35 mph when it crashed into the rear of another vehicle in North Carolina, causing the air bag to deploy. A metal fragment from the air bag injured the driver’s leg. The Mustang crash, which happened on Aug. 17, was notable because it occurred outside of the previous recall boundaries. North Carolina doesn’t have the high level of humidity of Florida and other Gulf states. On Monday, The Associated Press reported that Honda was quietly fixing air bags across the nation if customers were concerned about their safety. So far, Honda has formally issued recalls in 13 states and territories.
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Coast states, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and several other U.S. territories. Friedman and others have been summoned to testify before a Senate committee on Thursday. Takata has said that in areas of high humidity, airborne moisture can cause the air bag propellant to burn faster than designed, causing the problem. N H T SA’s d e m a n d fo r a national recall does not cover passenger side air bags, at least not yet. The agency says it has been pushing the auto industry to do tests to make sure current recalls cover all air bags that are defective. The safety agency has also been investigating Ford after receiving a complaint on Oct. 30 from the
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DETROIT — U.S. safety regulators are demanding that automakers and Takata Corp. expand nationwide a recall of vehicles with certain driver’s side air bags equipped with inflators that can erupt and send metal fragments into the passenger compartment. Previously, cars with the inflators have been recalled only in areas along the Gulf Coast with high humidity. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it’s basing its latest decision on an incident that happened outside of those areas.
The owner of a 2007 Ford Mustang recently complained to the government about suffering an injury when an air bag malfunctioned in North Carolina. The safety agency says if Takata and automakers don’t agree to the recall quickly, it will use its legal powers to make sure the inflators are recalled. “We now know that millions of vehicles must be recalled to address defective Takata air bags and our aggressive investigation is far from over,” NHTSA Deputy Administrator David Friedman said in a statement. The safety agency has been under intense pressure from lawmakers to seek an expansion of the recalls beyond the Gulf
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Flag fixture under review COOS BAY — After years of displaying only the American flag, the flagpoles lining the Coos Bay Boardwalk and Bayshore Drive will have to wait a minimum of two more weeks before returning to their cultural and international roots after the city council decided to schedule a vote on the proposal for its next meeting on Dec. 2. The council’s flag committee, consisting of council members Mike Vaughan and Thomas Leahy, Mayor Crystal Shoji and City Manager Rodger Craddock, suggested the city display a variety of American, state, international and tribal flags important to the city’s culture and heritage, but wanted to hear more public testimony before the council made its final decision. While the committee collected numerous letters of suggestion from the public, there was no public consensus regarding the direction in which the council should move. The committee’s proposal would require a change in Resolution 09-21, which in July 2009 declared the flagpoles would continually display American flags until U.S. military troops were recalled from Iraq and Afghanistan. The flags recommended by the committee fell into three categories. One category was nations and states along U.S. Highway 101: Alaska, California, Washington, Canada and Mexico. Another category was trade partners across the Pacific Ocean: Japan, China, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia and Hawaii, as well as a number of protectorates. A third category was locally significant entities, including Oregon, the city of Coos Bay, the city of North Bend, the Coquille Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of the Coos Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, as well as the Tall Ship Port of Oregon flag. Although the council postponed making a decision, the committee’s proposal was well-received.
WASHINGTON — Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is promising the new Republican majority will quickly resurrect Keystone XL pipeline legislation killed by Democrats, potentially setting up an early 2015 veto confrontation with President Barack Obama. “I look forward to the new Republican majority taking up and passing the Keystone jobs bill early in the new year,” the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday, shortly after the bill fell one vote short of the 60 votes needed to advance. He was joined by incoming Senate Energy Committee Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who said the fight wasn’t over. The vote was a blow to Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who had forced the issue onto the Senate agenda, and who faces difficult odds in a Dec. 6 runoff election against Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy. “I’m going to fight for the SEE PIPELINE, A8
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