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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Budget, public health before county panels

Government meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20130926:23:53:00

So many of the saw mills are vanishing. one county in southern oregon once had 22 thriving saw mills. now they have zero. the republican controlled house passed legislation last week that would allow more logging on federal land. it would save some of those jobs, but they also say environmentalists in the senate as they are putting up a fight for that. dan is live and just how tough is it for these rural timber counties. it is extremely difficult. it is three times higher than the overall jobless rate in the state of oregon. when the rough and ready mill shutdown they lost their jobs and this was a place that helped build homes for 90 once years. the federal government owns 80% of the forest land in the county and most faced legal challengeds under th endangered species act. no wood to cut and no need for a saw mill. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20130415:14:37:00

This year. among the legislative solutions being discussed in salem, having the state take over functions like elections, building inspections and taxation, and letting the governor impose attacks to pay for public safety. there are real people in these counties, that if the state does need to step in and perform some services for a certain period ever time then we need to be there to do that. reporter: the state has not yet figured out how it would pay for those services, heather. heather: are there other options? reporter: well, yeah, people in these timber counties say it s pretty simple, allow for more logging on federal forest land. the problem is that would take concessions from environmentalists who have been able to stop timber sales by suing them to death. state and federal lawmakers in both parties have talked about come bro myself for years but nothing ever gets done. it s less expensive to file a federal injunction and stop a timber sale in oregon than it is to get ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20130415:16:38:00

Size of rhode island. there is no response at night. they are looking to take over elections, building inspections and taxation and the most controversial letting the governor impose attacks to pay for public safety. what we re becoming in the tim per dependent countries are the april pa lay sha of the pacific northwest. that s not what we want to be. reporter: leaders in these timber counties say they don t want the federal ral handout any more and they don t want a state take over them. want to get back to work but that would mean changing the environmental laws this allow groups to sue federal timber sales to death. the answer is loosen the regulations. let us use what we have. quit trying to come down and scare us and terrorize our citizens with taxes and impositions and taking over of services, and state involvement. that doesn t help. reporter: oregon s congressional delegation is working to ease some of those regulations at the same time pushing for payments to continue ....

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