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STARBASE Kingsley will be closing its
doors to program operations on Friday, March 14th, 2025.
This closure is not only impacting Kingsley Field’s
site, but all 90 programs across the United States,
Puerto Rico, and Guam.STARBASE Kingsley was one of the
original seven academies in the nation, opening doors in
1993 and has served our community as a leader in STEM
education for 32 years. As a part of the Department of
Defense, STARBASE entered the current fiscal year on
October 1, 2024, with no budget in place. The federal
government is currently operating on a continuing
resolution, providing limited funds, which have been
fully expended. The U.S. House of Representatives and
the U.S. Senate are navigating the path forward for
funding the federal government, disagreeing on how much
to allocate for the 90 STARBASE locations. Currently,
the House has proposed $60 million; the Senate has
proposed $20 million.
Klamath Falls-area students
demonstrated their forward thinking and supportive
ambitions to make the world a more sustainable place
during MESA’s Demo Day held Tuesday on Oregon Tech’s
campus. MESA, an acronym for Mathematics Engineering
Science Achievement, is an after-school program that
empowers middle and high school students through
invention education. They tackle relevant issues by
designing projects that create and maintain healthy,
equitable and diverse communities and ecosystems with
this year’s focus being climate action. Paired into
teams (five middle school, five high school), the
students explained their designs for a panel of judges
as they competed for the first-place prize. Seeing
representation from area schools Ponderosa, Mazama and
Klamath Union, the projects tackled everything from
water filtration to fire mitigation.
Since the Oregon Legislature voted to
ban single-use plastic grocery bags and limit plastic
straws in 2019, most Oregonians have grown used to
bringing their own bags to the store and asking for
straws. Now, lawmakers looking to stop plastic from
piling up on the state’s beaches are turning their
attention to other plastic utensils, condiment packaging
and hotel-issued toiletries. The Oregon Senate voted
22-8 on Tuesday to pass Senate Bill 551, which would
expand the state’s plastic bag ban to cover takeout bags
provided by restaurants and the thicker plastic bags
some stores have offered since the original ban took
effect in 2020. The bill would also require customers to
explicitly ask for plastic utensils, single-serving
plastic packaging for condiments like ketchup, coffee
creamer, jelly and soy sauce and plastic-packaged
hospitality size shampoos, soaps and lotions, like they
already must ask for straws
An Oregon appeals court on Wednesday
found that a gun control law approved by voters over two
years ago is constitutional, reversing a lower court
ruling from a state judge who had kept it on hold. The
law, one of the toughest in the nation, requires people
to undergo a criminal background check and complete a
gun safety training course in order to obtain a permit
to buy a firearm. It also bans high-capacity magazines
holding more than 10 rounds. Measure 114 has been tied
up in state and federal court since it was narrowly
approved by voters in November 2022. It was among the
first gun restrictions to be passed after a major 2022
U.S. Supreme Court ruling changed the guidance judges
are expected to follow when considering Second Amendment
cases. A state judge in rural southeastern Oregon
temporarily blocked the law from taking effect after gun
owners filed a lawsuit claiming it violated the right to
bear arms under the Oregon Constitution. Circuit Court
Judge Robert S. Raschio then presided over a 2023 trial
in Harney County and ruled that the law violated the
state constitution. The Oregon attorney general's office
appealed the ruling.
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