Category: Salem, Oregon
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Verrus, LLC: But For The Grace of Google
Verrus and Google: The Publicly Documented Connections Salem, Oregon, recently revealed that Verrus, LLC, was pursuing a data center whose estimated value exceeds 5 billion dollars. Verrus projects an investment exceeding 5 billion dollars –an amount equal to approximately 30 percent of Salem’s entire existing 16.7 billion dollars tax base. It is also on the…
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Digesting the Salem City Council Hearing Record for July 27, 2026
Public testimony is often technically available but practically inaccessible. I downloaded the hearing record, removed duplicates, redacted contact information, summarized each submission, classified the testimony, and linked every entry back to its source page. The Salem City Council convened on July 27, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. The Agenda and supplemental packets can be obtained at…
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Calculating a NW Segment of Salem’s Class D Air Space
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I’m still working on the matter of the low flying Learjet over Salem, and in that matter, I have determined the jet first flew parallel to the FAA’s Class D airspace as much as it could before entering it.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">So then I wondered, why and what distance is involved. So here is a…
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Air Force One Buzzes Peck Cottage
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I have created a 3 dimensional model that depicts Air Force One (231′ long) buzzing Peck Cottage in a 1/2 mile radius going from an altitude of 100 to 500 and back to 100.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">To accomplish this, I am using a vector tile server I built using the MapLibre <a href="https://martin.maplibre.org/">martin project </a>and…
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2024 Peck Cottage Garden
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Peck Cottage at 1552 Court Street NE, Salem, OR, is next door to our home and was purchased in 2019. The cottage is within the Court Street Chemeketa Street Residential Historic District (<a href="http://salemdata.us/Salem/CourtStChemeketSt_Residential_NominationForm_with_photos.pdf">nominated</a> and accepted in 1987 to the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/index.htm">National Register of Historic Places</a> maintained by the U.S. National Park Service). The…