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Who's ever heard of Broadway Plaza?
• Take this little quiz for us. Can you locate Broadway Plaza? Can you locate Kesey Square? End of quiz. The obvious answers make us … Continue reading
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Author: EW Staff
Letters to the Editor 2017-06-29
BIG TIMBER ENTITLEMENT Kelly Kenoyer’s article “Rx: Fire” (June 22) hopefully generated some interest in prescribed burning in people other than foresters and ecologists. The … Continue reading
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Renter evictions and EW wins awards
• How many renters get evicted in Lane County each year? The numbers are not easy to come by, but local demographics mapper Joe Kosewic has … Continue reading
Letters to the Editor 2017-06-22
MEATY COMMENTARY It is clear that EW enjoys trolling “sensitive types” — it gets people talking about the newspaper. But I thought opening your article about a … Continue reading
Activist Alert
Oregon Walk the Land Day and Eugene's first pride march
• The McKenzie River Trust will participate in the statewide Oregon Walk the Land Day event. Visitors can check out Green Island at the confluence of … Continue reading
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Missing middle housing, sanctuary laws, Trump and more!
• What is “missing middle housing”? Is it missing in Eugene? And since it is, how do we remedy that? Those are the questions, and answers, Josh Skov and Kaarin Knudson laid out to the City Club of Eugene on June 9. The “missing middle” is the duplex, triplex, fourplex, courtyard apartment, bungalow, townhouse, multiplex and live-work arrangement. It is missing increasingly in Eugene, in part causing a crisis in affordability. The city can step up with code and zoning changes, plus incentivizing and showing examples. Councilors Alan Zelenka and Betty Taylor as well as Mayor Lucy Vinis all attended the meeting, which left us at that bottom line: How to make it profitable to build “missing middle” housing and how to raise incomes so our working people can afford it? Continue reading
Activist Alert
Know Your Rights training for the immigrant community
• The Civil Liberties Defense Center is looking for bilingual people who want to be trained to give Know Your Rights for the Immigrant Community … Continue reading
Letters to the Editor 2017-06-08
BEATING WALDEN Because of the “genetic Republicans who could not conceive of not voting for a Republican” in Greg Walden’s congressional district (“The Far Side,” … Continue reading
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Dog ban protest!
• About 40 marchers showed up on Friday, June 2, to protest the downtown Eugene dog ban. It’s interesting that the city decided to wait … Continue reading
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The May 26 murder of two men and near-fatal stabbing of a third by a white supremacist on a Portland commuter train is a sickening punch to the gut
• The May 26 murder of two men and near-fatal stabbing of a third by a white supremacist on a Portland commuter train is a … Continue reading