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New York Magazine has thrown a little attention Eugene's way with a piece called "Go Green in Eugene: The Willamette Valley city has become a hub for sustainable brewing, outdoor adventuring, and locally focused cooking." Major points for only mentioning the UO and Ducks in the context of the art museusm, Ethos mag and the duck eggs served at Membrillo. Continue reading
The story of Kesey Square gets stranger and stranger. Yesterday — Wednesday, Dec. 9 — the Eugene Chamber of Commerce announced its endorsement for the proposal put forth by local business people and developers to privately purchase Kesey Square — public land — and in its place build an apartment building with retail on the bottom floor. This sent another ripple through social media as many see any endorsement as premature. Continue reading
The Eugene Sustainability Commission Climate Change Committee will meet at 2 pm Thursday, Dec. 10, at the Atrium Building, Room 250, 99 W. 10th Ave. Call 682-5017 or email babe.osullivan@ci.eugene.or.us. • The Eugene Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee will meet at 5:30 pm Thursday, Dec. 10, at the Atrium Building, Sloat Room, 99 W. 10th Ave. Call 682-5471 or email lee.shoemaker@ci.eugene.or.us. Continue reading
It appears WINGS Seminars, based in Eugene and facilitating personal development seminars and related training for more than 25 years, will be shutting down soon, or evolving. Founder and President Kris King has not made a formal statement, but she has used social media to tell her community that she conducted her last Personal Effectiveness Seminar (PES) in Sacramento in late November. King and her office manager did not respond to an EW request for comment by press time. Continue reading
“The prison experience was a blessing for me,” says Garvar Brummett, who left his San Fernando Valley home at age 17 to escape an abusive stepdad and an alcoholic mother. He fell into a cycle of addiction, alcoholism, homelessness, bank robbery and incarceration that lasted 20 years. He served five years in prison, part of it in Illinois, the rest at the Sheridan federal prison in Oregon. “I read a lot of self-help books and religious texts,” he says. “I started going to AA meetings. Continue reading
Update: For coverage of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce endorsement vote, see our blog's "The story behind the chamber of commerce vote to privatize Kesey Square." Continue reading
There’s a growing list of names for downtown Eugene’s houseless population, and the word “travelers” is the latest description. The houseless and their advocates say that identifying the unhoused as travelers is a distraction from the real problem. “I think that’s the denial that every community has,” says Sue Sierralupe, Occupy Medical clinic manager, “that these are strangers.” Continue reading
Some readers call us Eugene Weedly thanks to our pot ads, so it’s no surprise EW has gotten calls from other media wondering if a recent U.S. Postal Service (USPS) notice about pot advertisements will affect the paper. On Nov. 27, the Portland district of the USPS gave the Chinook Observer, a small coastal newspaper in Longview, Washington, a warning that if a “mailpiece” contains ads for marijuana, it is “nonmailable.” The Observer is published by EO Media Group, which also publishes papers in Oregon. Continue reading
Interesting story in The Washington Post this week about what happens to low-income people when their food stamps run out at the end of the month. Continue reading
New video from the Union of Concerned Scientists on how we can reform our unhealthy food system. Continue reading