Update: Reporter Fired for Getting Pregnant?
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Football, football, football
Ever notice that the Register-Guard writes a lot about Duck football? Like three stories a day. R-G readers must like football (and crime and the weather, based on an informal survey of what shows up on the web). Last week the web editors must have gotten just a wee bit football crazed, what with a game coming up Sept. 5 and all. Continue reading
Biz Beat 8-27-2015
Mosaic Fair Trade Collection is a new store at 28 E. Broadway, selling handmade homewares, accessories and jewelry from around the world “made by fair trade workers who get living wages and safe working conditions,” says owner Susan Costa. One line she carries is by Portland company Tropical Salvage offering furniture from Indonesia handmade from salvaged deforestation wood. Costa says her passion for international development started when she did a college study abroad program to Nepal for nine months. Phone number is (206) 427-4780. Continue reading
Anne Donahue
I love working in the dirt
A native of Berkeley, California, Anne Donahue studied sports psychology at the University of Oregon and competed in rowing and ultimate Frisbee. “Our ultimate team, Dark Star, finished third at the national championships,” she says. After graduation, she went into business, printing T-shirts in her garage, until it caught fire. She took care of a woman with multiple sclerosis and did housecleaning and landscaping. Continue reading
Quake Preparation Gets Attention On UO Campus
The UO also encourages students to have their own kits
The lingering aftershocks of a recent New Yorker story, which pronounced everything west of I-5 “toast” when a massive Cascadia subduction zone earthquake hits the Northwest, means a lot of attention has been paid to quakes recently. An Aug. 6 UO public forum on the science behind “the really big one” drew more than 500 people, with 200 more watching on live stream. But how ready is the UO itself for a quake? Continue reading
Permaculture Convergence Encourages Green Lifestyle
A weekend-long event created to discuss and spread the practice of permaculture
Duck beneath the verdant archway of a home off River Road, then traipse along the side of the house and spill out into the backyard where fruit trees, a water feature, a massive swath of vegetables and a chicken coop create a sort of urban Eden. Jan Spencer’s house is a little unusual. It does not have your typical well-manicured lawn, Spencer says, but it’s his vision of the future, if others adapt to the permaculture lifestyle. Continue reading
Lane County Area Spray Schedule 8-27-15
• Oregon Department of Transportation is currently spraying roadsides. Call Tony Kilmer at ODOT District 5 at 744-8080 or call (888) 996-8080 for herbicide application information. Highways 99, 105, 126 near Eugene and Beltline were recently sprayed. • Freres Timber, (503) 859-2121, plans to spray roadsides in Sections 9 and 11 of Township 16S Range 7W near tributaries of Lake Creek with Element 4 (ester), Opensight, Mad Dog Plus and/or MSO Concentrate. See ODF notification 2015-781-11607, call Robin Biesecker at 935-2283 with questions. Continue reading
Ian Van Ornum EPD Taser-Arrest Case Can Go Back to Trial
Back in 2008, some UO students and other local groups held a rally downtown to celebrate that the Lane County Commission was limiting use of pesticide sprays. Seven years later, the Oregon Court of Appeals has handed down a ruling in a case related to an arrest at that rally, an arrest that was later appealed and has been making its way through the court system ever since. Continue reading
Updated family budget calculator shows Oregon minimum wage falls short
Chatter of a $15 minimum wage has permeated the nation this year, with Bernie Sanders introducing legislation last month to raise the federal minimum wage and Seattle being among the first cities to try a living wage for its citizens. Continue reading
Pro-Planned Parenthood Protest
Planned Parenthood keeps getting hit with undercover videos from the anti-abortion group, "Center for Medical Progress," trying to discredit the reproductive health care provider and defund it. Continue reading