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
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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
Planned Parenthood Protest
City Votes to Pursue May Measure for Schools
The Eugene City Council voted 8-0 tonight to continue discussion of a May ballot measure on an income tax for schools. The council plans to discuss details of the measure on Feb. 14 and take a final vote. The 4J school board may vote on whether to support the additional city funding and how much on Feb. 9. Several councilors appeared to indicate they may ultimately oppose referring a school funding measure to a May ballot vote, but a majority of four councilors and the Mayor spoke in favor of a May ballot measure. Continue reading
What happens when everyone is armed?
“When everyone is carrying a firearm, nobody is going to be a victim,” Arizona State Rep. Jack Harper told the Arizona Republic in the wake of the mass shooting of a congresswoman, 9 year-old girl, judge and others in his state. Here’s a look at what happens when “everyone is carrying a firearm”: Continue reading
School Board talks cuts, city tax to save schools and targeting neighborhood schools
At the Eugene 4J School Board Meeting tonight: —Superintendent George Russell revised his $22 million estimated budget cut to $28 million, due to new numbers from Gov. elect John Kitzhaber. Continue reading
Council Moves Forward on Progressive City Income Tax to Save Schools
The Eugene City Council voted unanimously tonight to have a committee bring back more information on possibly referring a progressive city income tax to save local schools for the May ballot. Continue reading