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Breasts Still Obscene in Eugene
Gender-progressive yoga studio outlaws topless woman
By Sydney Bradley When I entered the studio in downtown Eugene, I knew it was first-string. The teacher gave me an eye-gazey welcome and vines … Continue reading
Remembering Summer
Ditch the gas powered yard tools to save silence and the environment
By Brenda Kame’enui Remember when summer Was sunshine and crickets? Kids in the street And fences in pickets? Today many days Are powered by tools … Continue reading
Pride Month
LGBTQ+ people and the city of Eugene
In June, LGBTQ+ communities and allies across the nation celebrate Pride Month. In Eugene, Pride in the Park will be celebrated on August 14 at … Continue reading
College Hill 607
The reservoir will soon go away as will its iconic views and open space
The historic, lichen-covered wall of College Hill reservoir 607 stretches for an entire block on Lincoln Street. An aging plaque on the wall tells the … Continue reading
Pride Rising
Planned Parenthood is committed to the LGBTQ+ community
by Becca Hill (they/them) This Pride Month and every month, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon is proud to honor the diversity, strength, resilience and joy … Continue reading
Mega-Dairy
Top Chef, Tillamook and the unsavory legacy of Oregon’s biggest cheese factory
By Kristina Beggen Tillamook Creamery earned mega media hits when it announced it was reality TV show Top Chef’s source of dairy products for the … Continue reading
A Life Steeped in the Arts
In Memory of Lois Wadsworth, 1936-2019
My mother was a gatherer of people. She could draw someone she had just met into conversation, then into friendship, almost before they knew what … Continue reading
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Balancing Our Environmental Policy Scorecard
Residential zoning action as climate action
By Kelsey Zlevor Eugene is facing two crises that impact the future habitability and accessibility of our community. One is climate change, and the other … Continue reading
Choose Kindness
Kindness and niceness are not the same thing
There’s a debate about the truth behind being “nice” and being “kind.” Nice is polite, a gesture that is for the most part an empty … Continue reading
McKenzie Recovery
The McKenzie and its banks can be restored in harmony with the river’s needs
By Pam Driscoll and Robert Emmons Rebuilding along the McKenzie River after the Holiday Farm Fire provides an opportunity to promote, establish and enforce measures … Continue reading
Fifty Years Ago
The Vietnam anti-war movement in Eugene
By Dennis Gilbert, Martin Bennett and Paul Gratz The last national protests against the Vietnam War occurred 50 years ago, in late April 1971: 500,000 … Continue reading
Remembering Maria
A former federal prosecutor living in Eugene reflects on a murder — and our nation’s murderous border policies
In early November of 1979, Gabriel Felix Niebla, an undocumented migrant, came to the United States from Mexico seeking employment. He soon found a job … Continue reading
Truth is the Only Currency
Does the Second Amendment protect guns over people?
I have written a number of articles about the arms industry’s distortion of the Second Amendment as it traffics in ever more lethal weaponry to … Continue reading