Obama Rally at the UO
Barack Obama spoke to a cheering crowd of roughly 5,000 at the UO on Friday night. Here’s a link to audio of his speech with video clips of the rally. Continue reading
Year: 2008
Everyone Must Be On Campus
It took us a minute to realize why it was so empty everywhere. The Safeway parking lot, the streets, Brails … oh, wait! Everyone must be on campus. Right? We thought about biking down there, but that would have meant forgoing our delicious containers of leftovers (bi bim bob for him, pork bulgogi for me), and that simply wasn’t an option. We’d wolfed down all the side dishes — how I love small pickled/fermented things — but each Brails entrée was definitely enough for two meals. And they serve beer and wine with dinner! As if you needed more reasons to eat there. Continue reading
Obama Got Four-times More Donations From Eugene than Clinton
Eugene is Obama country, judging by federal campaign contribution data. Barack Obama has raised about four times more money here from about four times more contributions. Through the end of March, Obama reported raising $114,622 from 955 donations from Eugene. Hillary Clinton raised $29,111 in donations from 224 contributions from Eugene. Obama’s contributions averaged $120. Clinton’s averaged $224. Continue reading
This Weekend: More Stuff To Do
Not everything in the world, obviously, makes it into the paper. There are two more shows this weekend that caught my eye despite the fullness of the music section. Tonight, you might go see the charmingly monikered The Little Penguins and The Tea Cozies, whose bio, in part, reads as follows: Continue reading
Torrey and June 1st Pepper Spraying of Treesitters
With Jim Torrey running for mayor again, local videographer Tim Lewis has posted a reminder on YouTube of what it was like under Torrey. The video features dramatic footage of the June 1st incident in 1997 in which Eugene police emptied every can of pepper spray they had on non-violent tree sitters standing in the way of the Broadway Place project downtown. Continue reading
EPD Scanner Change Could Mean Big Change for Bloody TV News
TV news watchers may soon see less car wrecks, fires, cop chases and other “if it bleeds it leads” coverage on local broadcasts. The Eugene police department sent out a memo May 5 to local media on the upcoming switch of police radio to digital. That means the old analog scanners that TV reporters use won’t work. Even with digital scanners, EPD Capt. Chuck Tilby writes that “some frequencies will be encrypted in compliance with the new Oregon Consumer Theft Protection Act passed by the legislature in 2007. Eventually all channels may be encrypted.” Continue reading
Torrey’s Misleading Crime Ad
This week’s EW has a story about the mayor’s race that includes information about a recent political attack ad by Jim Torrey. Here’s the ad with fact checking by EW: Continue reading
Get High On a New Thing *
So for tomorrow’s paper, I spent several hours yesterday watching stoner comedies. And lo, they were funny, though epically dude-centric. (Still, when two of said dudes are John Cho and Kal Penn, I can manage to redirect my mild ire.) Continue reading
Frohnmayer to Resign
UO President Dave Frohnmayer has announced that he will resign by the summer of 2009. Here’s an email he sent out to UO faculty and staff this morning: Dear Colleagues: Continue reading
UO Reputation Swooshed Away
UO big wigs have been taking a lot of hits in the media recently for kowtowing to the almighty swoosh. On April 16 the Oregonian reported that the UO had evaded state anti-corruption laws to hand the contract for the basketball arena—the most expensive public building in state history—to a Nike subsidiary and Nike related contractor and architect without a competitive or public bidding process. Continue reading