When most are cutting calories, Riva Muehlbauer is adding calories including: Two cheeseburgers, bags of potato chips, chicken teriyaki, and nutrition bars as she competes.
This is not just any race. Runners often consider the 26.2 marathon the ultimate accomplishment, but for the 40-year old mother of four, the ultra-race of 100 miles is her passion.
To the editor: Last week, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden voted for a House resolution condemning any carbon tax as a way to reduce greenhouse gasses from burning fossil fuels (97 percent of Republicans voted for it as well, and 98 percent of Democrats voted against it). This all comes on the heels of a comprehensive study showing that a carbon tax, whose revenues are returned to taxpayers either via rebate checks or by offsetting taxes, would have a negligible impact on the economy! Unchecked global warming, on the other hand will have a catastrophic effect, and so I’m wondering how we will be able to to address this issue once the economy is not going full speed? Just pay later?
Boaters and swimmers cool off in the Columbia River off Riverfront Park in The Dalles. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory through 8 p.m. Thursday, as high pressure will sustain hot and dry conditions over the inland Northwest. An air quality alert is also in effect through Saturday for Wasco, Jefferson, Deschutes and Crook counties.