Eugene Weekly

With gas prices through the roof and the economy in the tank, locals are using less gas. Here’s a chart of declining gas use from a recent LCOG memo: Continue reading →

“USDA Organic” labeled food can cost twice as much, but under the loose system set up by the Bush Administration, the label may have become meaningless, threatening a lead industry in Oregon and Lane County. Continue reading →

The City of Eugene plans to close one of the most popular bike commuter routes in Eugene this summer for repairs. The city will close sections of the Amazon off-street bike path starting July 6 with work scheduled to be completed by the end of August. Unlike most road repairs, the sections of the bike path under construction will be entirely closed in both directions with bikers and pedestrians forced to take more dangerous alternative routes. Continue reading →

After a flurry of unconfirmed reports (well, reports only by TMZ, which was apparently good enough for pretty much nobody on a topic this big), the L.A. Times confirmed that Michael Jackson died today. He was 50. Continue reading →

Where can you earn more than $100,000 a year without a college degree, no experience and near total job security in this wretched economy? The Eugene Police Department is holding a career night for police officers tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Emergency Services Training Center, 1705 West 2nd Avenue. Continue reading →

A fire late last night at the Ridgeline Montessori Public Charter School has destroyed a 4J building with seven classrooms, according to Eugene Police. Police called the cause of the fire “suspicious” and are investigating. The fire was first reported at 2:45 am Wed. by a neighbor who saw smoke and flames at the east end of the building. Continue reading →

It’s looking more and more like the R-G is trying to Willie Horton progressive county commissioners. The R-G ran an attack column today calling for taxpayer spending on pro-jail expansion propaganda (illegal by the way) with this clip-art illustration: That looks a lot like the infamous Willie Horton ads Bush the senior used to get elected in 1988: Continue reading →

We try to be modest, but sometimes we just gotta toot our own horns. And that’s OK. Or at least it’s inevitable. Anyway, the point is, the Oregon and Washington Society of Professional Journalists held their annual awards banquet on Saturday, and we picked up a handful of awards, including two first-place nods for arts coverage. The honored stories are linked below. In the category for non-daily print publications with a circulation greater than 8,000: Continue reading →

What’s more extreme, a young buff athlete performing extreme sports or the typical American couch potato being able to hop over a street curb without serious injury? One is certainly more funny. Join the 32,000 people who’ve seen this local video and be the judge: Continue reading →

Does The Register-Guard editorial board read its own newspaper? On Nov. 18, 2007 the R-G reported that the police officer who shot and killed a psychotic Ryan Salisbury “said the stun gun would not have helped that night.” Today an R-G editorial uses the Salisbury death as its major justification for endorsing more taser use by the Eugene Police. Continue reading →