Slant
• Annette Montero died on the streets of Eugene, run over by a truck as she slept. As our cover story shows this week, she … Continue reading
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Good Riddance, Ruiz
For way too many years, true progressives in Eugene have had to be “resigned” to City Manager Jon Ruiz playing our faux-gressive mayors, Kitty Piercy … Continue reading
DeFazi-No
In her Aug. 29 letter, Deb McGee laments that Peter DeFazio isn’t more environmentally progressive in opposing the Jordan Cove pipeline. We might further ask why … Continue reading
Observing 9/11 at Guantanamo Bay
A Eugene lawyer defending an accused militant leader at Gitmo reflects on terrorism, torture and justice
By Rita Radostitz For the second year in a row, I spent the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. … Continue reading
Disingenuous Manning?
I find it disingenuous of state Sen. James Manning to write that, “Our representative democracy only works with mutual trust” (“The Legislature’s Unfinished Business on Climate,” 8/29). … Continue reading
Race For Extinction
Currently, the U.S. Forest Service is proposing to gut key provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act to dramatically increase logging, mining and fossil fuel … Continue reading
Slant
• September sighting by a paddle-boarder in the Alton Baker canoe path: three river otters playing in the late afternoon Labor Day sun. • National … Continue reading
Do Something Now
Monday morning, Aug. 26, an unhoused woman was killed in her sleeping bag just trying to rest. Here in our town, on our watch, a … Continue reading
Global Climate Strike
The Global Climate Strike entreaties us all to walk out of our workplaces or homes and join school strikers on the streets to demand an … Continue reading
Renters Tax Credit
I agree with Willie Dickerson (Letters, “A New Peace,” 8/1) when he commented, “peace begins when hunger ends.” Our food banks are certainly in demand, … Continue reading