Eugene Weekly

Forget about Joe the plumber, what about Amy the makeup artist and Angela the hairstylist? The New York Times reports that the McCain campaign pays makeuper Amy Strozzi $11,400 a week to work on “Carribou Barbie” Palin. That makes Strozzi the highest paid campaign worker on the McCain/Palin payroll. Continue reading →

With laughably incoherent interviews and a finding Sarah Palin abused her power against a state trooper, many Republicans are regretting John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as Vice President. But not Oregon Senator Gordon Smith. Here he is in an Oct. 9 debate: Continue reading →

Looks like high price executives are putting the trillion dollar taxpayer bailout of Wall Street to good use. The New York Times reported today: Continue reading →

In the pivotal, tight race in Oregon for U.S. Senate, Democrat Jeff Merkley has gone after Republican Gordon Smith for voting for George Bush’s Wall Street bailout. Here’s a new Merkeley ad: Continue reading →

Vermont progressive Senator Bernie Sanders echoed local Congressman Peter Defazio’s opposition to the Wall Street bailout. Here’s his video: Continue reading →

When Jon Ruiz was hired away from an assistant city manager job in Fresno to serve as Eugene’s new city manager this year, he defended Fresno’s reputation for urban sprawl. The San Francisco Chronicle profiled the sprawling, “corrupt,” “depressing” city at the millennium as “a cautionary tale of planning gone wrong and development gone wild.” Continue reading →

The U.S. Senate is considering passage today of a Wall Street bailout modified to include tax breaks for the wealthy. The measure includes a provision to reduce the “alternative minimum tax,” a tax originally designed to make sure millionaires couldn’t deduct away all their taxes. Citizens for Tax Justice, a leading non-partisan fair taxation think tank, analyzed the impact of a similar AMT elimination proposal in 2006. Here’s what they found: Continue reading →

Local Congressman Peter DeFazio is a national leader of the progressive revolt on Capitol Hill against the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. He explained why on the House floor: Continue reading →

John McCain said the mistake in Vietnam was that the U.S. didn’t go all out, invading and bombing north Vietnam. Historians say that could have lead to massive casualties and war with China’s huge army. A fellow Vietnam POW said McCain’s an unstable hot head: Continue reading →

I think I have a crush on Craig Ferguson now. (For what he says, folks. Though that accent sure doesn’t hurt…) Continue reading →