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Where can you earn more than $100,000 a year without a college degree, no experience and near total job security in this wretched economy? The Eugene Police Department is holding a career night for police officers tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Emergency Services Training Center, 1705 West 2nd Avenue. Continue reading
A fire late last night at the Ridgeline Montessori Public Charter School has destroyed a 4J building with seven classrooms, according to Eugene Police. Police called the cause of the fire “suspicious” and are investigating. The fire was first reported at 2:45 am Wed. by a neighbor who saw smoke and flames at the east end of the building. Continue reading
It’s looking more and more like the R-G is trying to Willie Horton progressive county commissioners. The R-G ran an attack column today calling for taxpayer spending on pro-jail expansion propaganda (illegal by the way) with this clip-art illustration: That looks a lot like the infamous Willie Horton ads Bush the senior used to get elected in 1988: Continue reading
We try to be modest, but sometimes we just gotta toot our own horns. And that’s OK. Or at least it’s inevitable. Anyway, the point is, the Oregon and Washington Society of Professional Journalists held their annual awards banquet on Saturday, and we picked up a handful of awards, including two first-place nods for arts coverage. The honored stories are linked below. In the category for non-daily print publications with a circulation greater than 8,000: Continue reading
The Willamette Valley Music Festival! The Scottish Festival! Eugene Chosen! The Avett Brothers! It’s one of those weeks when there’s more nifty stuff going on in town than we can cram into the pages of the paper. Here are just two more events at which you could enjoy yourself this weekend: Continue reading
What’s more extreme, a young buff athlete performing extreme sports or the typical American couch potato being able to hop over a street curb without serious injury? One is certainly more funny. Join the 32,000 people who’ve seen this local video and be the judge: Continue reading
Let me gush a second: I pretty much loved Star Trek. It did a lot of things right, and it looked gorgeous, especially to eyes disappointed by the terrible effects in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I loved Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy the best of all, but John Cho is a respectable Sulu, Sylar Zachary Quinto a perfect Spock (I really only thought of Sylar once, when he glares at the council) and Zoë Saldana a whip-smart Uhura. The bad guy was a little stock, but the time-split really thing works for me. Continue reading
Be patient just a little bit longer, Zenon fans. We learned — just a little too late to squeeze it into this week’s paper — that the new Café Zenon will open next Friday, May 22 (not May 15, as was previously their hope). Owner Ibrahim Hamide says he and his staff “would have been panting and sweating” if they opened May 15. “We didn’t want to present the first impression that way,” he says. Continue reading
Does The Register-Guard editorial board read its own newspaper? On Nov. 18, 2007 the R-G reported that the police officer who shot and killed a psychotic Ryan Salisbury “said the stun gun would not have helped that night.†Today an R-G editorial uses the Salisbury death as its major justification for endorsing more taser use by the Eugene Police. Continue reading
Local cyclists are wowing on this urban bike parkour video from Scotland: Continue reading