LYING CITY COUNCIL
I strongly agree with Archie Herring in his letter regarding City Hall and its unanswered questions (4/5). I dread being reminded about the $7 million … Continue reading
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FAKE NEWS
You really got me with this week’s Eugene Weekly (3/29, Satire Issue). I read the cover and panicked. I believed it! My heart sank. Here … Continue reading
UNION POWER
Amazing! In a recent guest viewpoint in The Register-Guard (“Springfield leaders target a barrier to affordable housing,” 3/17), the presidents of the Eugene and Springfield boards … Continue reading
PAVE AND RUN
What good are the “pillars” of Envision Eugene, if pave-and-run, out-of-state for-maximum-profit developers can get away with most everything short of battery and assault on … Continue reading
CLEAN ENERGY
“The Nuclear Option” (Letters, 3/29) dismisses clean energy as unreliable and too expensive. In fact, solar/wind power now produces 18 percent of U.S. power — … Continue reading
Slant
Fight hate, democracy in action and more
• The democratic process is alive and well in this end of the Willamette Valley, probably best demonstrated when 5,000 of us marched to support … Continue reading
SIN CITY
I read Bob Warren’s column (EW, 3/29) with great interest because I too am angry when I see the pit where City Hall stood Like … Continue reading
HORNBLOWER
Perhaps a more affordable solution than our city’s spending $7 million to completely silence horns would be to evaluate decibel levels generated by Amtrak passenger … Continue reading
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
It seems the county commissioners don’t realize that the commission is the first level of government for all rural, non-incorporated areas of Lane County. They … Continue reading
BARK AND BITE
In mid-January, a subcontractor working for the city of Eugene’s Urban Forestry department chopped down my wonderful, prolific fig tree. When I insisted it must … Continue reading