Occupy Eugene said what about Kesey Square?!
Occupy Eugene does not endorse the 2E Broadway proposal to put a building on Kesey Square, quite the opposite. Continue reading
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Oregon gets a D on public education report card
The state of Oregon landed a failing grade in valuing public education, according to the Network for Public Education's 50 state report card, released Feb. 2. The Network for Public Education, a national advocacy group in support of public education, rated each state based on six distinct criteria. Oregon received separate grades for each of the six categories, and then those grades were averaged together to come up with Oregon's D grade. Continue reading
Water rescue at Cape Kiwanda
In the search for a missing teenage girl who fell into the water at Cape Kiwanda last weekend, two local fire and rescue workers got into trouble when their personal watercraft capsized in the surf. A Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter rescued them in this video shot by a State Police officer's body camera. The search for the 17-year-old, Megan Owens of Marysville, Washington, continues. Continue reading
Oregon House Dems look ahead
New video is out by House Democrats as the short session of the Oregon Legislature begins this week. Continue reading
Elizabeth Warren on presidential discretion
Elizabeth Warren has an op-ed in The New York Times this week about how administrations affect federal agency rules, set priorities and take executive actions independent of Congress. Scary stuff if a right-winger ends up in the White House again. Continue reading
Mary O’Brien on grazing in the West
Mary O'Brien, Ph.D., longtime Eugene resident and environmental activist now living in Utah, wrote an op-ed for the Continue reading
DED Media’s latest: Video of Save Kesey Square rally and Council Meeting
Activist Alert 1-28-2016
• Women’s Action for New Directions meets at 7 pm Thursday, Jan. 28, at the First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive Street, to talk about the Women for Peace: National WAND Biennial Conference Report. The conference was held recently in Washington, D.C. Speakers include Annette Rose. Free. Continue reading
Biz Beat 1-28-2016
• The independent private Oak Hill School will be the new home of Super Summer, a three-week academic enrichment program for advanced learners and Talent and Gifted students, and will expand to include sixth and seventh grade students. The popular program has been housed at the UO for the past 35 years. Super Summer will begin its permanent residency on the rural Oak Hill campus near LCC June 27. The application process will open Feb. 8. See oakhillschool.com or call 744-0954. Continue reading
Sigvanna Meghan Topkok
Dartmouth is where I started healing
The daughter of an Alaskan Native airline pilot, who flew back and forth to Alaska, and a Norwegian mother from Minnesota, Sigvanna Topkok endured family fights at home and racist comments at school, as she grew up in several towns across Oregon, from Baker City to the coast. She spent childhood summers in her grandparents’ home village of Ambler, Alaska, where tribal traditions were suppressed in previous generations. “My grandmother was adopted out of the tribe,” she notes. “My dad passed away in a car crash when I was 11. Continue reading