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Jade Yamazaki Stewart

Jade Yamazaki Stewart is a writer originally from Miura, Japan. He writes people-focused stories on topics ranging from food and music to homelessness and prison reform. In his free time, he rides his motorcycle, eats nigiri and dances to reggaetón. Find more of his work at jadeyamazakistewart.com.

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From Bogotá, With Love

Eugene’s only Colombian eatery makes arepas, empanadas and plátanos as good as those you’d find on a Bogotá street corner 

News 2 years ago

Let’s start with the beef arepa: griddle-cooked corn dough stuffed with oozing cheese, avocado, tender shredded beef and pico de gallo.  Then, the patacón pisao: … Continue reading →

Give Housing, Save Money

Lane County is providing hundreds of housing units and services to chronically homeless people while saving hospitals and governments money

News 2 years ago

Rhonda Messal was homeless in Eugene for three years, camping under carports and couch-surfing when people would let her stay in their homes.  One winter, … Continue reading →

A Salvadoran Dream

A woman escapes civil war and gang violence and builds her mother’s pupusa business in Eugene

Chow 3 years ago

Some of Eugene’s best pupusas, tacos and burritos, come out of a sea-blue trailer in the parking lot of an auto shop near 7th and … Continue reading →

EPD, City Sued for Protest Response

Protesters are suing the city and Eugene police for gassing, shooting and arresting them in a way that allegedly violated their civil rights 

News 3 years ago

Tyler Hendry and other Black Lives Matter protesters were walking on Broadway at about 11 pm on May 31 when another group of protesters ran … Continue reading →

County Commissioners Talk COVID and Redistricting

County officials discussed evolving COVID response plan and potential fairer process for changing county voting districts

BlogNews 3 years ago

Lane County commissioners and county staff discussed how to contain the spread of COVID-19 and how to best help businesses and schools during the pandemic … Continue reading →

More Money for Homeless During the Pandemic and Winter

Lane County is receiving about $7 million in federal money to assist the unhoused as they navigate the pandemic; some of these funds could be used to create winter warming stations to replace Egan

BlogNews 3 years ago

Members of the Lane County Poverty and Homelessness Board (PHB) discussed how to use federal money for unhoused people during the pandemic and plans for … Continue reading →

Eugene’s Godmother of Anti-Racism 

The founder of the Racism Free Zone called out racism in Eugene and fought against it with compassion; she left the town a more inclusive place

News 3 years ago

Elliotte Cook moved to Eugene in the early ’80s with his brother, Lennard Cook, and his mother, Bahati Ansari.    At Thomas Jefferson Middle School, … Continue reading →

Lane County Commission COVID Response Updates 

The Board of Commissioners worked on rent relief, reopening for schools and getting more COVID response money at their meeting

BlogNews 3 years ago

County commissioners and executives talked through rent relief, reopening and general COVID response points in their July 7 Board of Commissioners meeting, after two weeks … Continue reading →

Stolen Labor and Stolen Land

Activists hold a rally for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and for Black and Indigenous victims of police brutality.

News 3 years ago

Violet Johnson spoke into a megaphone, wearing a striped Cheyenne-Arapaho style ribbon skirt and strings of beads hanging from her neck.  In the crowd of … Continue reading →

Mass Layoffs at Off the Waffle

Former employees allege Off the Waffle owner laid them off because they supported Black Lives Matter 

BlogNews 3 years ago

Twenty-seven people were laid off or quit working for Eugene locations of the local businesses Off the Waffle and Theseburgers between June 18 and June … Continue reading →

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Jade Yamazaki Stewart

Jade Yamazaki Stewart is a writer originally from Miura, Japan. He writes people-focused stories on topics ranging from food and music to homelessness and prison reform. In his free time, he rides his motorcycle, eats nigiri and dances to reggaetón. Find more of his work at jadeyamazakistewart.com.

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