Huff Post Brings Political Polling Data to Life
A little Huffington Post poll shows Dems and Repubs disagreeing … and agreeing. Continue reading
Camilla Mortensen
Camilla Mortensen is the longtime local editor of Eugene Weekly, the area’s alternative newspaper. The paper, which has been in print since 1982 (originally as What’s Happening) continues to print more than 27,000 copies a week in addition to its popular email newsletters and website. Camilla has a masters degree in folklore and mythology from UCLA and a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Oregon. She has been a reporter and editor at EW since 2007 and teaches journalism at the UO in the mornings before heading to the Weekly’s office. She also teaches newswriting at Lane Community College and advises The Torch student newspaper.
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Invasive Ringed Crawfish Found in Lane County’s Row River
Call them crawdads, call them crayfish but whatever you call them, ringed crayfish are native to the central plains and Ozarks, not Oregon, and a recent discovery of the invasive crayfish in Lane County's Row River new Cottage Grove is troubling biologists according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Continue reading
Property Owner Offers To Open Up Brick Walls Of Kesey Square
The clock may be ticking for the unique bit of open space in Eugene’s downtown that is Kesey Square. But Ali Emami, owner of the two buildings that have common walls with the plaza, says that when he heard rumors the public space might be sold and developed into apartments, he came before the Eugene City Council last week to again renew his offer to open up the walls of the buildings and make the space more inviting. Continue reading
UO Campus Cops Lack Oversight
Civilian oversight of the police tends to be reactive not proactive, says Mark Gissiner, Eugene’s civilian police auditor. Yet a recent $755,000 jury verdict in the “Bowl of Dicks” retaliation case against the University of Oregon’s police department has not prompted change in the UO’s police oversight. Continue reading
Beaver Fundraising Video
Sometimes talking about beaver can be awkward. Especially when it involves puppets. Oregon State is crowdsourcing the beaver genome project, donate and support a dam good cause. Continue reading
LNG Protest in Salem Monday
The anti-LNG groups that recently brought you a paper maché Gov. Kate Brown are heading to Salem to protest liquified natural gas pipeline and export projects slated for Oregon's lands and waters. Press release is below. Photo credit: Rising Tide Raging Grannies & Youth to Hold Intergenerational Protest Against LNG at Capitol Continue reading
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Roseburg Violence unsettles Lane campus community
When I got to the morning writing course I teach at Lane Community College on Tuesday, I asked my students, “How many of you were worried about coming to class today?” Several students raised their hands. Looking around at their peers, several more put their hands in the air. Continue reading
Blaming Mental Illness Creates Stigma
As the city of Roseburg and the community around Umpqua Community College try to process and recover from the Oct. 1 mass shooting that killed nine people and injured nine more, Oregon and the nation are seeking answers for why the shooter, who also died, would bring six guns to campus and seek to murder his writing class. Continue reading
Big Cat Advocates Oppose Plan To Kill Cougars
Oregon’s 2016 big-game hunting regulations will be on the agenda when the Fish and Wildlife Commission meets in Florence Oct. 8 and 9. Specifically the commission will discuss opening up target areas where “cougar numbers will be proactively reduced in response to established criteria” for cougar conflicts with humans, livestock or other game animals such as mule deer. Continue reading
Umpqua Community College Shooter Family Statement
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has issued this statement from the shooter’s family: “We are shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific events that unfolded on Thursday, October 1. Our thoughts, our hearts and our prayers go out to all of the families of those who died and were injured. ” Continue reading