Since 2000, we've seen base power rates rise by 50%.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.

The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

Don't worry it might never happen. By: Edward J Petraitis Sr.

And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them, ” Anaxantis said, with some deep regret coating his voice.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

God hates loneliness, and community is God's answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how to love.

The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.