Eugene Weekly

UO football coach Chip Kelly announced today that he may allow a player who punched an opponent and threw an embarrassing violent fit on national TV to play for the UO after all. Continue reading →

LEED certification for supposed leading work on green buildings, a focus of the city of Eugene, is facing criticism. Las Vegas Weekly reports on LEED Gold certification by the private U.S. Green Building Council for two new Las Vegas Casinos. The paper writes: “Giant buildings that welcome and encourage the extravagant, wasteful behavior of thousands of guests at the same time hardly seem like a recipe for saving Mother Earth.” Continue reading →

Here’s a gory example of what can happen with texting while driving: Wow. Who could be so irresponsible, so unsafe, such a danger to society? Continue reading →

Is the state freedom of information law free? No, the Oregon Attorney General’s office charges $25 a pop for the public’s document and has refused to put a free download online. UO Economics Professor Bill Harbaugh—a longtime critic of UO athletic and administrative spending and affirmative action—didn’t like that. So he scanned the whole AG manual on the law and put it on his blog. Continue reading →

Two UO students have won prizes in a short video contest for college students. Rebecca Purice won a $3,000 first prize for a video about the First Place Family Center in Eugene and a homeless single dad. Here’s the video: Continue reading →

While Portland and other cities are putting forward innovative bike and transit friendly transportation projects for a $1.5-billion pot of flexible, green-oriented federal stimulus funds, Eugene only wants yet more roads. Continue reading →

The city of Eugene is planning to spend $16 million to move its police to a new headquarters across the river from most crime. Here’s a map from a website the police department uses to map their crime data. The map shows violent crimes since March. The blue arrow depicts where the police headquarters is now (red dot) and where City Manager Jon Ruiz is planning to move it. Continue reading →

Looks like former Mayor Jim Torrey did a commercial on KVAL: Continue reading →

Pete Kerns (left) Roger Magaña (right) Eugene City Manager Jon Ruiz named department veteran Pete Kerns as Eugene’s police chief. At a 1:30 pm press conference Ruiz called Kerns “a person of strong integrity.” Continue reading →