Pollution Update
J.H. Baxter & Co on notice from DEQ
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) sent a pre-enforcement notice to San Mateo, California-based J.H. Baxter & Co., Jan. 18 for illegal discharges of … Continue reading
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Arrest Opens Window into Local Supremacist Group
Creswell man had denied ties to American Front
A Creswell man with white nationalist ties was arrested Jan. 19 and charged with assault in an incident involving a weapon. Eugene Weekly broke the news of … Continue reading
Lane County Spray Information
Roseburg Resource and Seneca Jones Timber plan pesticide sprays
• Roseburg Resources, 541-679-3311, plans to aerial and ground spray atrazine, clopyralid, Cleantraxx, glyphosate, hexazinone, imazapyr, indaziflam, sulfometuron methyl, triclopyr with ester, triclopyr with amine, … Continue reading
TV Butte Quarry Fight Sent Back to the County Commission
Mine opponents celebrate decision by the Land Use Board of Appeals
A small group of citizens fighting a proposed gravel mine on the edge of Oakridge say they have won a victory in their battle against … Continue reading
Questionably Measuring Success
The University of Oregon is consistently evaluated by Academic Analytics, a group critics say uses inaccurate measures of academic performance
Academic Analytics, a company that measures the performance, the production and ultimately the success of faculty and overall institutions at the university level, has been … Continue reading
Head of State
Gov. Kate Brown spends a day in Eugene meeting with students, teachers and reporters
On a Tuesday morning, Jan. 16, students, teachers and a few state legislators mingled in Eugene’s Winston Churchill High School auditorium. A couple of cameras … Continue reading
Slant
Measure 101 wins, mourning Brian West and Ursula Le Guin, City Club, the Women’s March and white supremacists
• In his life, which ended far too soon when he died Jan. 6 at age 51, Brian West played drums for the likes of … Continue reading
Axing the Axemen
Debate roils South Eugene High School over mascot
Constance Van Flandern spoke up for her daughter — the same daughter who thought, when she was 5, that South Eugene High School was a … Continue reading
Mascots, clean energy, arts and more
A FUTURE TO BELIEVE IN Imagine: The next breakthrough in clean, renewable energy could be formulating in the minds of a Lane County high-schooler right … Continue reading
Man with White Supremacist Ties Arrested for Assault
Jacob Laskey faces charges of menacing and more
A Creswell man with white supremacist ties who was recently featured in a series of articles detailing a resurgence in racist activity in the Eugene … Continue reading