Eugene Weekly

Newport turns 125 on Oct. 23 and is planning a bunch of festivities . Here’s some photos of how things used to look: Continue reading →

How dare China export toxic toys? Turns out the U.S. does the same. The Sacramento Bee reports that the U.S. goverenment has long okayed the export of toxic and other dangerous consumer products that it banned or recalled for sale in the U.S. “Though recalls coordinated by the CPSC of Chinese-made goods have made headlines recently, for decades the federal agency has allowed American-based companies to export products deemed unsafe here,” the Bee reports. Continue reading →

The Seattle website Crosscut.com has singled out The Register-Guard for one of the worst websites among the many “bad” examples in the Northwest. Continue reading →

Just how bad of a “problem” is immigration? From the AP today comes news that: “Nearly one in five people living in the United States speaks a language at home other than English. California led the nation in immigrants, at 27 percent of the state’s population, and in people who spoke a foreign language at home, at 43 percent. West Virginia had the smallest shares of both: 1.2 percent of immigrants and 2.3 percent of people who speak a foreign language at home.” Continue reading →

A city of Eugene proposal to quiet railroad horns by closing five downtown rail crossings could cut off a section of downtown. Rail crossings at Monroe, Madison, Jefferson, Lawrence and Lincoln may be closed. Here’s a map. Continue reading →

A Stanford trained global warming scientist that has been biking around the world to raise awareness about global warming will be in Eugene on Thursday. David Kroodsma will give a presentation at 5:30 pm on Thursday, August 30th in the Bascom/Tykeson Room, Eugene Public Library. Continue reading →

Researchers at Oregon State University have helped develop an automated method of sampling municipal sewers for drugs. According to an Aug. 21 OSU press release, “The method could provide a drug surveillance tool to help public health and law enforcement officials identify patterns of drug abuse across municipalities of all sizes.” Will having Big Brother in the bathroom give people the willies? Continue reading →

Beam development, the Portland firm that has proposed a local-focused historic restoration of the Center Court and Washburne buildings in downtown Eugene has won kudos for a similar project in its home town. As part of its “Best of Portland” issue, the alternative newspaper Willamette Week praised Beam principal Bradley Malsin’s Central Eastside project as “the epicenter of Portland’s radiant future” with the “creative class.” Here’s WW: Continue reading →