2021 is Over
Remembering 2021 with Eugene Weekly’s most read stories of the year
The year 2021 had one hell of a start with the Jan. 6 insurrection that left us wondering whether 2020 would have competition for the … Continue reading
Year: 2021
Fifteen Chronically Homeless Families Housed for the Holidays
Organizations partnering around the Housing First model is the best way to help the unhoused population find and maintain housing
By Michelle Hankes In a partnership between Homes for Good, ShelterCare, Lane County and Quantum Property Management, The Keystone, a 15-unit housing community for families … Continue reading
Slant
Merry holidays! As we head into the New Year, we at Eugene Weekly just want to say thank you for all the support, snarky Facebook … Continue reading
A Climate Step In The Right Direction
On Dec. 16 the Environmental Quality Commission made history. It approved climate regulations that push to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation and heating … Continue reading
Towards a Black Social Service Agency
We need an action-oriented, evidence-based, best-practice-focused multi-ethnic coalition of health-care professionals
In 1974, two years before the Eugene Springfield NAACP branch was founded, I worked in a Los Angeles Black Community Mental Health Day Treatment center … Continue reading
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Vintage ’60s and ’70s soul — feel good music — comes to the Hult Center Dec. 28 with the Seattle-based Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. Lamarr, … Continue reading
Failure to Care
Oregon Has Allowed Many Long-Term Care Centers To Escape Accountability For The Covid Deaths of Hundreds of Elderly Residents
By Jack Forrest, Sally Segar and Jassy McKinley Kathleen Escobar will never forget the day in November 2020 when COVID-19 hit the memory care center … Continue reading
It’s Because LBJ Canceled Responsibility
Taliek Lopez-DuBoff asked (Letters, 12/16) why there were 28 school shootings in 2021. In the 1930s, college lettermen athletes were allowed to terrorize lesser males … Continue reading
Pranali Garud
“I was a first generation learner,” says Pranali Garud, an ex-“untouchable” from a working-class family in a slum in Mumbai, India. “Our parents sent us … Continue reading
In Flight on the Last Night of 2021
Ballet Fantastique’s Arrivals: Rio premieres at the Hult Center followed by a NYE afterparty
Ballet Fantastique has defined itself by creative originality and fearless collaboration over the last decade, with the company’s founding mother-daughter team, Donna and Hannah Bontrager, … Continue reading