Eugene Weekly

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 →

To the surprise of almost no one who reads any local news, The New York Times is reporting that the UO, among other public universities, is under-supported by the state, and as a result it’s adding considerable fees on top of tuition: All told, fees add up to $1,542, or nearly an additional 40 percent on top of tuition of $3,984. That does not even count additional fees charged for taking certain courses. Later in the story comes this: 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 →