| University Requires Emergency Texting
The school is the first in the nation to mandate that students sign up for text message alerts, WCVB-TV in Boston reported. If students don't sign up, they can't register for spring classes. This weekend, the school sent out test alerts to about 40,000 students. There were glitches in the system, but the goal is to reach as many students as possible, as fast as possible, to improve response time to a crisis. .
Coast Guard IDs two who died in capsizing off Oregon coast
HAMMOND, Ore. -- The Coast Guard has identified two men who whose bodies were recovered after a boat crabbing off the northern Oregon coast capsized. They are 54-year-old James Nibler of Salem and 52-year-old Curtis Heuer of Newberg. The Coast Guard suspended a six-hour search at nightfall Saturday and had not found a third man: Nibler's 41-year-old brother, Lawrence. Expected survivability was estimated at four hours. Bob Coster, search and rescue coordinator at the Coast Guard's Astoria station, says it appears a crab-pot line got tangled on an outboard motor, destabilizing the 16-foot vessel. .
Dow surges, Central Pacific up 13%
HOKU) was the biggest loser of the day, down nearly 10 percent to $8.32 after its most recent earnings report disappointed investors. Hawaiian Holdings, (AMEX: HA), parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, was down 4 percent to $4.90; ML Macadamia Orchards (NYSE: NUT) closed down nearly .3 percent to $3.20; and Barnwell Industries (NYSE: BRN) was down 2 percent to close at $8.81. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 298 points after falling more than 320 points in earlier trading. S&P 500 ended up 28 points and the Nasdaq Composite Index closed up 24 points. .
Letters to the editor (Feb. 4)
I do not know the true condition of city finances. But I do not want to receive additional services now just to find out, later, that taxes and fees must increase to fund these new services.Before the City Council and Budget Commission approve any service increases, they should be able to assure citizens that the increased services can be funded on an ongoing basis without future tax and fee increases.If they cannot, then the new-found revenue should be saved to offset future cost increases in base-level services.Rolland Baxter, CorvallisTo help Hillary, Bill should stay homeThe recent Opinion page piece about Bill Clinton's campaigning antics being "unbecoming to an ex president" ("Bill too tough for Hill," Jan. 29) seems to me to miss the point entirely.Quite a lot of his past behavior belongs firmly in that category, quite as much as his recent purple-faced rants in apparent support of the much-reviled Hillary.However, I feel it is time to share the real truth about Bill, which everyone seems to have missed.He doesn't actually want Mrs.
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