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Let’s take a look at the image above, shall we? What you see there is one burned CD, a single word written on it in fine-point Sharpie. This is what came in a plain brown envelope earlier this week. Just this. No bio. No track list. Not even a flimsy little slip of a cover for the poor naked CD. Continue reading
After decades of complaints about spiraling legal costs and potential conflicts of interest, Eugene City Manager Jon Ruiz has decided to hire an in-house attorney rather than having all the city’s legal work done by a private law firm. Ruiz announced in a press release today that Eugene will have at least one in house lawyer starting July 1 and could expand to three attorneys working as city employees. City managers have given the private law firm of Harrang Long Gary Rudnick, P.C. exclusive contracts for almost all the city’s legal work for the past three decades. Continue reading
Interim Police Auditor Dawn Reynolds’ attorney issued a statement denying an allegation that Reynolds improperly disclosed confidential information. Reynolds’ attorney Margaret Wilson said the interim auditor’s “conduct was professional and entirely consistent with her public duties.†Continue reading
The allegations that resulted in the Eugene City Council putting interim Police Auditor Dawn Reynolds on leave are “disturbing and disruptive†and lack merit, Eugene’s previous auditor Cris Beamud said in a written statement. “I have had an opportunity to speak with Dawn Reynolds, and I do not believe that the allegations against her are meritorious,†wrote Beamud, who left Eugene last summer to head the police oversight system in Atlanta. Continue reading
Remember all the talk about Oregon leading the nation in fighting global warming? Well, ODOT must have thought people meant leading the nation in increasing global warming. The state transportation agency, Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Portland’s supposedly green city government is gung ho for a 12-lane, $4 billion, that’s right $4,000,000,000, I-5 freeway bridge across the Columbia River to facilitate urban sprawl. But, grassroots opposition is building. Here’s a mocking shopping channel video from a Portland bike activist: Continue reading
Previously on Battlestar Galactica: “Someone to Watch Over Me”. What follows, after the break down there, are a few thoughts on “Islanded in a Sea of Stars,” the penultimate episode, if you count both parts of “Daybreak” as the finale — which, for the purpose of live(ish)blogging, I intend to. Comments on those will go up tomorrow, or possibly tonight, once it’s all over. Continue reading
After the cancellation of the West Eugene Parkway sparked a two year search for alternatives, the West Eugene Collaborative (WEC) has recommended the eventual conversion of the West 11th commercial strip into a green, multi-modal, mixed-use, dense boulevard. Continue reading
“Deadlock” may have been a weak episode, but “Someone to Watch Over Me” is something for any show to be proud of. It’s nearly flawless, a beauty of acting, writing, editing and, so very importantly, composing (composer Bear McCreary’s three-part, incredibly detailed blog on his part of the experience starts here and is definitely recommended reading). Plus, it’s about Starbuck AND the Chief. What more could you ask for? Continue reading
The first time through, I hated “Deadlock” — especially coming on the heels of the dense, if awkward, “No Exit,” which offered a ton of information in an awkward plot device. Now, I don’t hate “Deadlock” — except for one particular moment — but I think it’s the season’s weak link. Here, let me tell you why… Continue reading
And we continue (from the mutiny-centric “The Oath” and “Blood on the Scales”) with the info-heavy “No Exit,” which found me mostly just typing, somewhat frantically, in an attempt to keep up with everything Sam Anders says. It’s important, it’s relevant, “It’s the miracle, right here,” as he says to Saul Tigh. So let’s see what the Cylon says… Continue reading