Date: 11/13/2012 08:48 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The owners of a Portland clinic that counsels sex offenders says she’s willing to move her business if she can get out of her lease. The Oregonian reports that the Whole System clinic’s location had outraged residents of the Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood. Yesterday, Johneen Manno says she will consider looking for a new location.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The future of commercial fishing on the Columbia River is now in the hands of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission after a measure to ban gillnets failed on Election Day. After years of stalemate, Gov. John Kitzhaber has asked the commission to come up with new commercial fishing regulations that phase out the use of gillnets on the Columbia.
BEND, Ore. (AP) – A Central Oregon group is planning an anti-trapping measure for the 2014 ballot. The Bend Bulletin reports that the TrapFree Oregon initiative would ban trapping of animals for their fur or other body parts and outlaw the buying or selling of fur or other parts of trapped animals. Voters in Oregon have twice rejected trapping bans, in 1980 and 2000.
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) – The Clark County prosecutor is joining other prosecutors in Washington state in dropping misdemeanor marijuana possession cases in the wake of voters legalizing the recreational use of pot. Initiative 502, which legalizes marijuana use of 1 ounce or less in Washington, goes into effect Dec. 6.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
