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NORTH BEND — The city of North Bend’s attempt to dispel Simpson Heights residents’ concerns over the proposed Jordan Cove workforce housing camp dissolved into groans and eye-rolling. Jordan Cove, Kiewit/Black and Veatch, and Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council representatives fielded questions from frustrated Simpson Heights residents at an informational meeting Wednesday night. But their jabs were directed more toward North Bend city officials, who they say deliberately left them out of the workforce housing camp’s permitting process this spring. Prior to the meeting, about 20 Simpson Heights and anti-LNG folks protested outside the North Bend Community Center. Jan Dilley, who’s taken the lead on planning an appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals, held up a sign reading, “We want a fair hearing — not a sideshow.” She wants LUBA to look into North Bend City Council’s dismissal of her appeal of the planning commission’s permits approval for the workforce housing camp. “This is a nonevent,” Dilley said of Wednesday’s
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The Simpson Heights neighborhood in North Bend sits opposite U.S. Highway 101 from the Al Peirce property, just south of the Conde McCullough Memorial Bridge. meeting. “I was afraid to make it an event by showing up in force, but I was corrected and told I need to because the other side will have their say.” She didn’t attend the meeting, though: “It’s not SEE SIMPSON | A8
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Protesters stand outside the North Bend Community Center on Wednesday before a meeting with Jordan Cove Energy partners where Simpson Heights residents could ask questions concerning the Jordan Cove Energy Project workforce housing camp.
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COOS BAY — The city of Coos Bay signed a Disposition and Development Agreement with the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians on Tuesday evening that centers on the nearly 4 acres of bayfront property, at the intersection of Newmark Avenue and Cape Arago Highway in Empire, that has come to be known once again as the Hollering Place. The agreement, which was greeted with applause, sets in motion the process that is expected to lead to major development on that site.
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“(It’s a) huge decision,” City Manager Rodger Craddock said Wednesday. “This is the closest we’ve ever been in redeveloping that property.” The Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency purchased the site in 2001, but it holds even more history to the Native American population. According to documents, “prior to the arrival of the first Europeans, the site was the center for transportation, commerce and communication for local Native American populations. The site was the first European settlement in what would later become Empire City and the first Coos County seat. Hollering Place was the site of the original courthouse, and it overlooked the waterfront.” Last August, the city issued a request for proposals for the site, and the Confederated Tribes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans chastised the Justice Department on Thursday for failing to share information with Congress about its investigation into the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service. Lawmakers called anew for a special prosecutor to look into the matter. The criticism during a House subcommittee meeting came as Deputy Attorney General James Cole, the Justice Department’s No. 2 official, said the investigation has been broadened to include the disappearance of emails from the computer of Lois Lerner, who formerly headed the IRS division that deals with tax-exempt organizations. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs, told Cole that he had “serious
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The region has seen severe fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia separatist rebels in recent days. On Wednesday evening, a Ukrainian fighter jet was shot down by an air-to-air missile from a Russian plane, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday, adding to what Kiev says is mounting evidence that Moscow is directly supporting the separatist insurgents in eastern Ukraine. Security Council spokesman Andrei Lysenko said the pilot of the Sukhoi-25 jet hit by the air-to-air missile was forced to bail after his jet was shot down. Pro-Russia rebels, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for strikes Wednesday on two Ukrainian Sukhoi-25 jets. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said the second jet was hit by a portable surfaceto-air missile, but added the pilot was unscathed and managed to
land his plane safely. Moscow denies Western charges that it is supporting the separatists or sowing unrest in its neighbor. The Russian Defense Ministry couldn’t be reached for comment Thursday about the Ukrainian jet and Russia’s foreign ministry didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. Earlier this week, Ukraine said a military transport plane was shot down Monday by a missile fired from Russian territory. The rebels are known to possess portable anti-aircraft rocket launchers, but Ukrainian officials say that kind of weapon would have been unable to reach the plane at the altitude at which it was flying. Aviation experts, however, have questioned whether the stricken transport plane was flying at the altitude Ukrainian officials had claimed.
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Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner speaks March 5 on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Justice Department is investigating the circumstances behind the disappearance of emails from Lerner, part of a broader criminal inquiry into whether the agency had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.
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The Hollering Place in the Empire District of Coos Bay could have a very different look in a few years. Coos Bay’s Urban Renewal Agency reached agreement with the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians to begin developing the land on which they intend to build a resort and a number of associated facilities.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday over a town in the east of the country, and Malaysian Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights over Ukrainian airspace. Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said on his Facebook page the plane was flying at an altitude of 33,000 feet when it was hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher. A similar launcher was seen by Associated Press journalists near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne earlier Thursday. The Buk missile system can fire missiles up to an altitude of 72,000 feet. Malaysia Airlines said on Twitter that it “has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace. More details to follow.”
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