Terry Beyer to Not Run Again
State Rep. Terry Beyer of Springfield announced today (Jan. 31) her decision not to seek re-election to House District 12. She says she supports former Springfield Mayor John Lively to fill the seat. Continue reading
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Ninja March
Did you miss the Ninja March against banks last week? Never fear, Ustream is here. The kazoos start around minute 34, there's also a game of Red Rover and some chanting of ommmm. Eugene Daily News tried to cover the march, but apparently got distracted by pizza and missed most of it. Continue reading
Occupy the Courts Moves Inside
We the People-Eugene announced today (Thursday) that weather has caused the relocation of Friday's Occupy the Courts rally from the U.S. Courthouse to the First Christian Church, 1166 Oak St. The event marks the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision which has generated a flood of corporate political spending. Speakers include Paul Cienguegos (at about 3 pm), and many other speakers working on local grassroots citizen initiatives, musicians, performers and wrapping up with an open mic. Continue reading
Wolf Wanders to California
Thanks to Oregon’s wandering wolf, California saw its first Canis lupus in the state since 1924. The young gray wolf known as OR-7, but now renamed “Journey” thanks to conservation group Oregon Wild’s naming contest, was confirmed in the Golden State via his GPS tracking collar on Dec. 29. According to Sean Stevens of Oregon Wild, “I’d be hard pressed to think of a more famous or accomplished wolf than OR-7.” Continue reading
Heavy Metal
Uranium mine would bring jobs, at what cost?
Heavy Metal Uranium mine would bring jobs, at what cost? By Camilla Mortensen Continue reading
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Is mining in Oregon worth the costs? Part I of II
Nothing Gold Can Stay Is mining in Oregon worth the costs? Part I of II by Camilla Mortensen Compared to other Western states like Idaho and California, “on the whole Oregon is not very well endowed,” when it comes to gold, UO geology professor Mark Reed says. He says even Washington has more gold than Oregon. Continue reading
Shifty Politics
Lane County’s awkward new lean to the right
Politics, it would seem, is inseparable from process. It’s not what politicians get done; it’s how they do it. Continue reading
Aid On the Asphalt
Schizophrenics waking up in parking lots bloody and disoriented, suicidal college women threatening to jump, junkies in bathroom stalls, half-dead, face-down ‹ this is a side of Eugene witnessed by people who choose to look after the city in ways most dont or wont. Men and women working in the shadow of their better-known cohorts, Eugenes fire and police departments, CAHOOTS fills a niche somewhere between counseling and emergency medical care ‹ it helps people. The need is there every day, and so is CAHOOTS. Continue reading
Drone on the range
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! What is that thing swooping through the Oregon skies? Continue reading
Green Digs: LCC offers low-carbon, car free living downtown
Construction begins this month on some of the greenest housing digs ever built in Eugene-LCC’s downtown apartment building for 250 students. “Sustainability is one of the college’s core values,” said Lane Community College spokesman Brett Rowlett. The LCC housing is part of its $53-million downtown campus project in the Sears pit across from the library. Continue reading