Newspapers
Statesman Journal, October 11, 2o10, "Students add fresh eyes to Salem's priorities about the future" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, December 13, 2010, "Students draft center's future" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, May 24, 2011, "Council OK's $40,000 for site search" (PDF file)

Salem Weekly, October 17, 2013: "Brand new City Hall? Not so fast"

Salem Weekly, October 17, 2013: "Community meeting to discuss Salem vision"

Statesman Journal, October 18, 2013, "A $70 million decision" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, November 7, 2013, "Library retrofit a possibility" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, November 10, 2013, "Civic Center's needed makeover" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, December 20, 2013, "Salem losing millions in facility proposal" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, January 11, 2014, "New debate over police site" (PDF file)
Salem Weekly, January 23, 2014: "Group that says it can save millions meets publicly with City"
Salem Weekly, January 23, 2014: "Citizens deserve better alternatives for Salem's Civic Center"
Statesman Journal, January 30, 2014, "Residents consider best site for police station" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, February 19, 2014, "True cost of renovation not known to public" (PDF file)

Salem Weekly, February 20, 2014, "Central location good for new police facility"

Salem Weekly, March 20, 2014, "Save lives. Wear a purple sticker."
Statesman Journal, March 24, 2014, "Group has another vision for city's problems" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, March 25, 2014, "Salem City Council faces critics of new civic center" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, March 28, 2014, "Letter: Community needs to have say in site of new police station" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, March 30, 2014, "City's public outreach remains old-fashioned" (PDF file)
Salem Weekly, June 12, 2014, "Kid's Library remodel on hold while police station debated" 
Statesman Journal, June 18, 2014, "Should the Salem library find a new location?" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, May 18, 2015, "Task force urges new Salem police station" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, May 24, 2015, "Find a new site for police station" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, May 27, 2015, "Council receives recommendations on Salem police facility" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, December 24, 2015, "City of Salem narrows down possible police facility sites" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, January 6, 2016, "Salem officials tour potential sites for police station" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, February 22, 2016, "Costs unveiled for new police facility" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, February 28, 2016, "The price of eminent domain" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, February 28, 2016, "Salem Police Station site comparison" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, February 29, 2016, "Council hears from public on police facility" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, March 1, 2016, "City Council chooses police facility site" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, March 6, 2016, "Salem chooses the correct site for police headquarters" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, March 14, 2016, "City polling residents on police facility" (PDF file)

Statesman Journal, March 28, 2016, "Salem police facility: How did we get here?" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, April 1, 2016, "Survey: 58% of Salem supports police facility measure" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, April 11, 2016, "Salem candidates favor police facility" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, June 8, 2016, "Council passes next step for new police facility" (PDF file)
Statesman Journal, June 28, 2016, "Salem City Council votes to adopt police facility resolution"
Statesman Journal, July 5, 2016, "Proposed Salem police facility too large, too expensive"
Statesman Journal, August 8, 2016, "Salem Chamber endorses police facility bond"
Statesman Journal, August 21, 2016, "Vote no on 'bloated' Salem police facility"
Statesman Journal, September 3, 2016, "Groups debate bond on Salem police facility"
Salem Weekly, September 18, 2016, "Salem's controversial $82 million police station: Is it too big? Or just right?"
Statesman Journal, September 23, 2016, "Sides spar on proposed Salem police facility"
Statesman Journal, September 24, 2016, "Salem police deserve better than lowest common denominator"
Statesman Journal, September 25, 2016, "Vote no on police facility measure; demand realistic plan"

Salem Weekly, October 13, 2016, "Vote no on Measure 24-399"
Statesman Journal, October 16, 2016, "Salem police need, deserve new facilities"
Statesman Journal, October 23, 2016, "$82M question: What kind of police station does Salem need?"
Statesman Journal, November 2, 2016, "Forward-thinking cities support public safety"
Statesman Journal, November 2, 2016, "Save money, lives with better plan for facility"
Statesman Journal, November 9, 2016, "Salem police facility bond measure fails"
Statesman Journal, November 11, 2016, "After police facility bond measure fails, what next?"
Statesman Journal, November 12, 2016, "Police facility; where do we go from here?"
Statesman Journal, January 31, 2017, "Salem police facility returns to city agenda"
Statesman Journal, February 23, 2017, "New Salem police facility price shaves around $20 million..."
Statesman Journal, February 24, 2017, "Salem residents have a second chance to fund police station"
Statesman Journal, February 28, 2017, "Second try police bond measure still misses the mark."
Statesman Journal, April 19, 2017, "Cash pouring in to support new Salem police facility"
Statesman Journal, April 23, 2017, "Vote 'yes' for new police facility in Salem, with an exception"
Statesman Journal, May 7, 2017, "Before you vote, 3 things to know about the Salem Police Facility"
Salem Weekly, May 11, 2017, "Is the City wrongly attempting to influence police bond vote?"

Statesman Journal, May 11, 2017, "Salem City Hall toes elections line with election spots"
Statesman Journal, May 16, 2017, "Police facility bond measure wins easily"

 

HinesSight and Salem Political Snark blogs 

October 13, 2013: "Help save Salem's Community Vision: meeting October 18, 2013"

October 19, 2013: "Citizens suggest better ways to renovate Salem Civic Center"

October 21, 2013: "Here's how City of Salem can save taxpayers $40 million"

October 25, 2013: "Salem City Manager reveals plans for the Peace Plaza"

November 20, 2013: "Salem Community Vision has small-town values"

December 11, 2013: "Some talking could save Salem taxpayers $30 million"

December 23, 2013: "Geoffrey James tells City of Salem how to save $30 million"

December 31, 2013: "Salem Community Vision ready for New Year"

January 1, 2014: "Salem Community Vision answers questions about police facility proposal"

January 7, 2014: "City of Salem planned new police facility in backwards way"

January 25, 2014: "City of Salem spends $25,000 on unethical biased 'push poll'"

January 27, 2014: "How City of Salem planned police facility in secretive manner"
January 29, 2014: "Salem Community Vision and City of Salem mix it up in Grand Theatre cage fight"
March 12, 2014, "How the City of Salem decided to build a new police facility at the Civic Center"
March 21, 2014, "Help stop the $80 million Salem City Council madness"

March 25, 2014, "Will Salem Mayor Anna Peterson admit she spoke falsely?"
May 21, 2014, "Salem Public Library might be converted to a police facility"
May 30, 2014, "Children's Room at Salem Public Library held hostage to police facility"
June 7, 2014, "Library Children's Room 'hostage taking' to be talked about June 11"
June 11, 2014, "Update on proposal to convert Salem Public Library into a police facility"
June 16, 2014, "Is the Salem Public Library really a 'charmless concrete bunker'?"
January 13, 2015, "My advice to Salem's 'Blue Ribbon' Police Facility Task Force"
January 16, 2015, "'Power to the people' on display at yesterday's Police Facility meeting"
January 19, 2015, "Wise thoughts about a new Salem Police Facility"
March 8, 2015, "Why Salemians should come to the March 8 Police Facility Task Force meeting"
March 11,2015, "Salem Police Facility Task Force meeting makes my head explode"
April 2, 2015, "Salem's Police Facility Task Force makes progress by going backward"
April 18, 2015, "Why a new Salem police facility could cost many lives"
May 5, 2015, "Earthquake readiness: will the Salem City Council choose to save lives?"
May 21, 2015, "Salem Mayor disavows City of Salem press release"
May 27, 2015, "Salem can't afford a $50 million-plus police facility"
December 15, 2015, "Four possible sites selected for new Salem police facility"
January 20, 2016, "O'Brien site north of downtown is best place for new police facility"
January 21, 2016, "'Redo' of Salem police facility planning costing taxpayers $142,000"
February 8, 2016, "Must read for Salem citizens: SCV Police Facility Position Paper"
February 18, 2016, "I ask City officials Seven Great Questions about a new Salem police facility"
February 22, 2016, "Yikes! City wants Salem taxpayers to pay $80 million for supersized police facility"
February 23, 2016, "Salem citizens: save lives by sending an email to the City Council"
February 29, 2016, "Impassioned testimony at City Council hearing on a new police facility"

March 3, 2016, "A Moral Must: make Salem's Library and City Hall earthquake-ready"
March 12, 2016, "Salem police facility could waste $20 million of downtown urban renewal funds"

March 14, 2016, "Take the City of Salem police facility survey. You could save lives."

March 23, 2016, "T.J. Sullivan misinforms about police facility 'misinformation'"

March 29, 2016, "City of Salem officials acting stupid on earthquake safety"

April 4, 2016, "Salem City Council struggles with police facility and earthquake-safety questions"
April 13, 2016, "Courthouse Square lies being spread to justify Police Facility wasteful spending"
April 19, 2016, "Salem Police Facility planning staggers on to uncertain outcome"
June 2, 2016, "New Salem police facility seems to be on shaky voter ground"
June 5, 2016, "'Make Salem's Library Earthquake Safe' video"
June 9, 2016, "To save lives, in November vote NO on Salem police facility bond"
June 15, 2016, "Salem can do better... than an over-priced $83 million police facility"
July 5, 2016, "Great critique of November's $82 million police facility bond measure"
August 8, 2016, "Treasurer of pro-police facility PAC accused of bankruptcy fraud"
August 24, 2016, "How Salem can save lives and $20 million: vote NO on police facility bond measure"
August 29, 2016, "Mayor-elect Bennett provides good reasons to vote NO on police facility bond"
September 12, 2016, "Salem City Club debate on $82 million police facility bond measure"
September 14, 2016, "Five good reasons to VOTE NO on Salem's $82 million 'police palace' bond"
September 18, 2016, "Good Salem Weekly piece about debate on $82 million police facility bond"
September 21, 2016, "Architect Geoffrey James urges NO vote on $82 million police facility bond"
September 23, 2016, "My opening 'NO' statement at City Club police facility bond measure debate"
September 25, 2016, "Worst. Statesman Journal editorial. Ever?"

September 29, 2016, "Either Chamber of Commerce is wrong, or Statesman Journal is deceitful"

October 13, 2016, "T.J. Sullivan lies about cost of proposed Salem police facility"

October 19, 2016, "No, savings from Measure 24-399 WOULDN'T fund Civic Center seismic strengthening"
October 20, 2016, "Salem's Civic Center needs renovating, not replacing"
November 9, 2016, "Lessons for Salem from defeat of $82 million police facility bond measure"
November 11, 2016, "PLAN B for building a Salem police facility"
November 21, 2016, "Rumor: City plans to buy police facility site with urban renewal funds"
December 15, 2016, "City of Salem leasing old O'Brien auto site until June 2017"
December 26, 2016, "'No organized opposition' to $82 million to police facility bond levy? Fighting words..."
February 5, 2017, "New plan for Salem police facility too costly. Beaverton shows how to do it right."
February 6, 2017, "City Council seems to favor smaller, cheaper police facility and making Library earthquake-safe"
February 15, 2017, "Video of disturbing Salem City Council machinations about new police facility plan"
February 16, 2017, "Why 'regret' is key to passing a new Salem police facility bond measure"
February 20, 2017, "I'm trying to stop the City Council from making a big mistake on a new police facility plan"
February 23, 2017, "Why I'm urging a NO vote on the new Salem police facility plan"
March 22, 2017, "Four reasons to vote NO on Measure 24-420, the second-try Salem police facility bond"

April 5, 2017, "New police facility doesn't fit with City of Salem 'North Downtown Plan'"
April 28, 2017, "Outspent 52 to 1, the No on Measure 24-420 campaign is feeling fine"
May 17, 2017, "How citizen activism produced a much better Salem Police Facility plan"

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Salem Breakfast on Bikes blog 

December 16, 2010: "Sustainable Cities Initiative shows student proposals for Civic Center"

December 3, 2011: "City Council, December 5 - sidewalks and the prospect of a new police station"

September 12, 2013: "New police station project heating up? Tid-bits from CAN-DO - updated"

October 17, 2013: "Move peace plaza! It doesn't work - in fact it's broke!"

October 19, 2013: "Pictures of the City Hall and Police Station concepts"

October 27, 2013: "Demolished Cooke-Patton House and the Civic Center debate"

November 5, 2013: "In the shadow of cars: Millrace Park at Pringle Plaza"
November 13, 2013: "Police and Civic Center open houses are opportunity to talk property tax efficiency"

November 30, 2013: "Two police stations: Eugene's car-dependence and the Civic Center's desolateness - updated"

December 9, 2013: "In the neighborhood associations: NEN-SESNA on McGilchrist, Morningside on police station"

December 30, 2013: "A postscript on Peace Plaza: the library remodel broke it!"

January 7, 2014: "In the neighborhood associations"

January 11, 2014: "Portland Road police station? Rose Gardens/Epping parcel still estimated at $66.1 million!"
March 22, 2014, "City Council, March 24 - Police Station"
June 16, 2014, "How much worse would a Marion Parkade library actually be?"
December 18, 2015, "Car dealership site for police station chance to fix terrible intersection"
January 8, 2016, "City Council - January 11: Cueing up TSP amendments and police station"
February  9, 2016, "DAB: Police Station, Union Street bike lanes; also Victory Club and the Alley"
February 27, 2016, "City Council - February 29: The Police Station"
April 4, 2016, "Stuck with posters and slogans for earthquake"
June 1, 2016, "For tonight's work session, thoughts on parking"
February 24, 2017, "City Council February 27 - Delay at Boise, Library seismic deferred"
May 17, 2017, "Police Station design unlikely to look like bond marketing materials"