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Do you think the state should require homeowners in high risk wildfire areas to make safety changes?
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550 Votes

Do you think the state should require homeowners in high risk wildfire areas to make safety changes?

Yes!

6

No!

5

Yes!

6 Comments
Lester Friedman
3
Lester Friedman

Within reason. Your failure to protect your property jeopardizes mine.

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Daniel Shepard
1
Daniel Shepard

Fire is a real serious threat. Please simply review the videos online of the Santa Rosa, CA and Paradise, CA fires. Or even the Bandon, OR fire that wiped out the entire town. Harden your property to prevent fire, period. It's way overdue. Other states long ago have done this.

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Dianne Price
1
Dianne Price

It benefits everyone.

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Jane CommunityMember
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Jane CommunityMember

We don't want another Wildfire like the one that burned down Talent and Phoenix

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k san
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k san

But not based on the current assessments. The Dpt. of Forestry used 3 yr-old maps to determine risk assessments, and they are NOT accurate. I zeroed in on my home in NWX, where they said we were in high risk, and the map didn't even show the house next door to me which has been there for 3 years.

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Lynn Huntley
0
Lynn Huntley

Take care of yourself AND your neighbors and area around you. I certainly don't want to be responsible for causing damage and heartache to others.

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No!

5 Comments
Rick Allen
1
Rick Allen

Well first of all I think this info is incorrect! I got one of the letters from the State of Oregon saying my property is high risk, and it says RECOMMENDED! It did NOT say REQUIRED steps be taken! I do not believe in Government overreach! Sick and tired of Democrat control freaks!

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Ric Pruitt
1
Ric Pruitt

You take care of Your property, I'll take care of mine, stay OUT of my Business !!

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💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤
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💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤

The government needs to start LOGGING the forest so fires don't start in the current overgrown mess

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Paul Bianchina
0
Paul Bianchina

Curious if the illegal campers in the forest off China Hat got their notices as well. Since they're a MUCH GREATER fire risk than the average homeowner, is anyone taking steps to create defensible space around those homes? Of course not. This only applies to legal, taxpaying homeowners, as usual!

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Gabe West
0
Gabe West

Stay out of our business

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Are you excited to see this bike share program come back full time?
KTVZ Asked by KTVZ
160 Votes

Are you excited to see this bike share program come back full time?

YES

0

NO

4

YES

0 Comment
No one has commented yet

NO

4 Comments
SA Timms
0
SA Timms

Too many bike riders currently riding on a sidewalk, then they change to a street, then a bike path. BTW...how fast will these ebikes go. Also, many riders aren't cautious....currently. Who's going to enforce an age minimum? THIS is already a problem! Hope accidents don't happen.

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Wade Palmer
0
Wade Palmer

These are a nuisance and left all over town. That and the traffic problems caused by less car lanes.

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Lisa York
0
Lisa York

great ..more e bikes left all over the city... they're a nuisance...

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Tammie Hagemann
0
Tammie Hagemann

I voted this way because I still have 50.00 on the blue bird bike app that I can't get back at all. I had NO idea that when the program ended you wouldn't get your money back

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Do you support the cellphone ban in Oregon schools?
KTVZ Asked by KTVZ
267 Votes

Do you support the cellphone ban in Oregon schools?

YES

5

NO

1

YES

5 Comments
Steve Reeves
1
Steve Reeves

Many of my students display addictive behaviors regarding their phones, and it has proven detrimental to their learning and social development. Any positive of cell phone use is vastly outweighed by negative consequences.

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Sam Davis
1
Sam Davis

Long overdue. Students need to focus on being educated in school, not watching videos, playing games, & chatting with each other. Educators and others do not need the distraction that cell cause. If there are emergencies that students need to know about there are other ways for them to find out.

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k san
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k san

Kids are way too addicted to their phones and it is affecting their learning. Phones could be kept in a basket in the classroom in case of emergency, but definitely NOT with the kid.

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David Kline
0
David Kline

My teaching friends say it's been a battle to keep kids off their phones in class and wastes a bunch of class time time addressing this. How will this be enforced any differently though?

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Kimmy Wasatch
0
Kimmy Wasatch

Between cell phone usage and lower graduating standards, OR is failing students

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NO

1 Comment
Tammie Hagemann
0
Tammie Hagemann

There are times that they shouldn't have them but check them at the door of class rooms to cut back on the use. Emergencies do happen and cells are useful

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