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Looking for that triple bottom line? The Grist website did some muckraking to get the real poop on green toilet paper: “The bottom line: You can protect your bum without being a bummer for the earth. For maximum absorbency and (guilt-free) comfort, we suggest Seventh Generation double rolls.” Ah, but should we trust a bathroom tissue reviewer named “Grist?” For the full review and even more scatological puns click here . Continue reading
Just after EW went to press with this week’s cover story on John Kroger, the outsider hoping to shake up the Oregon AG’s office, Kroger announced that he’d been endorsed by former Gov. John Kitzhaber. Read the press release here . Continue reading
Free to Be Me Reasons for giving thanks in 2007 BY SALLY SHEKLOW Continue reading
No, not that season. What kind of crabby, no-holiday-spirit person do you take me for? I mean truffle season, which must clearly be nearly upon us, as the following two things came to my attention in the last two days: Continue reading
This week Willamette Week featured excerpts from their former reporter’s book. Taylor Clark wrote Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture (Little, Brown and Company, 304 pages, $25.99). Clark got an advance to write the book after he wrote a story for Willamette Week that “examined the charges commonly lobbed at Starbucks and found some of them had scant grounds.” Continue reading
So I can’t blog about last night’s Heroes episode because the men’s basketball game ran long and I haven’t watched it yet. Alas. Continue reading
I lose at blogging. But Heroes has been losing at TV, to be honest. Uninteresting new characters, unconvincing romances and a scattered storyline are combining to break down my interest, which breaks my nerdy little heart a little. But all is not lost; the show’s creator, Tim Kring, recently told Entertainment Weekly that he knows the show’s been sucking (my word, not his). Continue reading
The No on 49 campaign warned before the election that if the measure passed: “If the government wants your property for open space, a scenic view, wildlife habitat, or some other government use, M49 allows them to take your property for free.” After the overwhelming vote for the measure, does this now mean that citizines can add the Wildish Land to Mt. Pisgah park for free? Can citizens now get a park in the Amazon headwaters for free? Can we now seize the timber baron and land speculators’ mansions for homeless shelters? Continue reading
Disgusted that big tobacco bought the Measure 50 vote against kids’ healthcare? Progressive author Frances Moore Lappe says money doesn’t have to rule democracy. Check out her video on publicly financed “clean elections” in Maine, Arizona and Connecticut. Continue reading
Urban Renewal Defeated Local vote upsets scheme to divert taxes to developer subsidies By Alan Pittman The city of Eugene’s controversial urban renewal plan to subsidize downtown developers with parking garages and other handouts totaling more than $40 million was rejected overwhelmingly by voters on Nov. 6. In unofficial final results, 64 percent voted no on Measure 20-134. Continue reading