How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it

By Dave Duffy, backwoodshome.com

This is a story that comes out of my own home town of Gold Beach, Oregon. It pits the high school band, consisting of 15 teenagers ranging in age from 15 to 18, against the powerful local teacher’s union that tried to shut the band down because their unpaid volunteer band director, who everybody agreed was doing a good job, did not possess an Oregon teaching credential.

Obama administration tactics violate due process

By Congressman Doc Hastings, The Star

Last summer, news reports broke that the U.S. Department of Labor was effectively holding hostage the crops of blueberry farmers in Oregon until they signed documents agreeing to alleged violations to federal labor laws. Since then, similar cases have popped up on the west side of our own state of Washington.

Judge halts SEIU vote

By Hannah Hoffman, StatesmanJournal.com A former public employee union president on Monday won the second round