It’s The Cartels
Immigrants and their supporters need to quit trying to solve the immigration problem through begging and appealing to conservatives. There are one billion peoples in … Continue reading
Year: 2018
To Pave or Not to Pave
A hiking trail will be turned into a road if a 14-lot residential development is approved on Spring Boulevard
Neighbors are opposing a planned unit development (PUD) that will pave over part of a public trail in the Fairmount Neighborhood between Spring Boulevard and … Continue reading
The Nimby View?
Monica Kohl (“A Modest Proposal,” Letters, June 21) asks why allowing unfettered ADUs (accessory dwelling units) is such a terrible thing. Allow me (a prospective homeowner) to … Continue reading
Tree of Life
Part II of III: The Hard Sell
Her eyes widened in disbelief. Yes, he thought, the burnt romantic, thinking and therefore believing that there’s something to preserve in all this, something sacred … Continue reading
Reproductive Rights
With Justice Kennedy’s decision to retire from the Supreme Court, it is imperative that Oregon focuses on the fight for women’s reproductive rights. There now … Continue reading
Jade in the Rough
Sometimes the stars align perfectly. For songwriter Jade Jackson, it was being born with only a few degrees of separation from Mike Ness, front man … Continue reading
Pickleball is Life
Paddle sport takes over Eugene-Springfield, giving zip to local courts
It’s a cloudy spring morning at Meadow Park in Springfield as I get ready to serve. I have a pickleball in my left hand and … Continue reading
Three’s Company
Patrick Starnes challenges ‘big money’ in Oregon governor's race
Governor Kate Brown and challenger Knute Buehler knew the day after the May 15 primary election they would go on in November to run for … Continue reading
Slant
EW’s editorial board muses on the Annapolis shooting, another go at an auditor, the loss of musician Richard Swift and more
• Learning about the shooting and five people killed in a targeted attack at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis has left us reeling. EW’s … Continue reading
Broken and Lost
Today there was another mass shooting, this time in Maryland. Crime is the cost of cutthroat capitalism and the emptiness and despair that meritocracies engender. … Continue reading