Fine Young Cannibal
Watching Jessica Boudreaux of Summer Cannibals on stage, you’re never sure if the spotlight shines on her or if she shines a spotlight on the … Continue reading
Year: 2017
Weed Worker Permits Easy to Obtain
If your New Year’s resolution involves quitting your current job, you can now consider an array of jobs within Oregon’s budding recreational marijuana industry. But … Continue reading
Muting Goal One Goal
Citizens fight aerial sprays
One goal of Oregon’s statewide land use program is “citizen involvement,” providing opportunities for public participation in all phases of the regulatory system. Public awareness … Continue reading
Letters to the Editor – 2017-01-12
RENAME SKINNER’S BUTTE I live next to Skinner’s Butte and propose that we restore its name to what it was called by the Native Americans … Continue reading
The Spin
Who’s who and what’s what in dance this month
It’s a new year, and you should be dancing: Ballet Fantastique Academy’s winter session has begun, and BFan offers a Free Dance Week, Jan. … Continue reading
History as Horror Story
Jackie turns the story of Camelot’s first lady into a nightmare from which we haven’t awakened
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in a Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963 was a national tragedy, but it was also a nightmare, … Continue reading
George Brown: The Nerd the City Needed
Outgoing Eugene City Councilor George Brown is not a politician; he’s a city government nerd
Outgoing Eugene City Councilor George Brown is not a politician; he’s a city government nerd, a bespectacled wonk. Not in the wide-eyed, soaked-in-sunny-positivity vein of … Continue reading
Tom Campbell
From homeless to Egan volunteer
On Nov. 30, 2015, 56-year-old Tom Campbell was homeless and hoping to spend the coming sub-20-degree night at Lane Community College’s Egan Warming Center when … Continue reading
Goodbye Kitty
Piercy hands off the torch as mayor
Political leaders leave legacies — Eugene’s first woman mayor Ruth Bascom is remembered as the “bicycling mayor” after establishing bike and pedestrian paths around town during … Continue reading
Underground Power Lines?
December’s record-breaking ice storm in Eugene knocked out power to thousands
An immense old oak tree crushed Kaye Parsons’ garage roof during December’s record-breaking ice storm in Eugene that knocked out power to thousands. Parsons can … Continue reading