Slant — Sounding off
• It’s Best of Eugene and time to party! Celebrate 30 years of the Best of Eugene readers poll and all the amazing winners at … Continue reading
Opinion: Page 2
Local and Vocal
Nov. 3 Elections!
Ballots are out and voting has begun — vote early and walk your ballot to the nearest dropbox! Before you do that, read a viewpoint from … Continue reading
A Nurse on ECEF
Reduce pollution, increase resilience and protect public health
By Benjamin Prescott As a local nurse, I have seen firsthand how impacts to our air and our climate here in Eugene pose a direct … Continue reading
Oregon Is Paying for Washington D.C.’s Corruption
In November, we decide whether anyone stops it
By Zachary Klonoski If you’re like me, you’ve been doing the math at the grocery store cash register. Coffee is up nearly 20 percent from … Continue reading
Eugene is a Union Town
Let's keep it that way and vote yes on ECEF
By Jenn Smith For too long, big billion-dollar corporations have been bringing in record profits while working people are squeezed tighter and tighter. Eugeneans are … Continue reading
Jones-McCann, UO and More in Letters
An Honorary Pulitzer If Pulitzer Prizes for investigative reporting are awarded to local weekly reporters, Christian Wihtol deserves top honors for his second in-depth exposure … Continue reading
Nothing Gained
Why kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?
Capital punishment is once again under public scrutiny. First came the botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike on Sept. 30. Then the U.S Department … Continue reading
Clean Energy (again), Endorsements and More in Letters
Rethinking Home Scores Listening to the City Council’s public meeting on home energy scores was strangely upsetting and, on reflection, I realized that it sounded … Continue reading
Slant — Seasonal!
• This week in sportsball — what’s up with Duck football? Wait, what’s up with high school football? The Marist High School football coach was dismissed … Continue reading
Vote in Defense of Democracy
No Kings — Vote Early is Oct. 17
Stan Taylor This is no ordinary midterm election. It is the opportunity to check the man who would be dictator, the billionaire tech brothers that … Continue reading