Eugene Weekly

Down in the polls with a week to go, the McCain/Palin campaign appears racked by infighting: Continue reading →

Kitty Piercy now has a TV ad out in the tight mayor’s race that describes Jim Torrey as a “right wing Republican.” The folksy ad also notes Torrey’s big contribution to George Bush’s re-election campaign. Continue reading →

Kitty Piercy put a big chunk of her limited campaign money into this TV ad in the tight Eugene mayor’s race: Continue reading →

Forget about Joe the plumber, what about Amy the makeup artist and Angela the hairstylist? The New York Times reports that the McCain campaign pays makeuper Amy Strozzi $11,400 a week to work on “Carribou Barbie” Palin. That makes Strozzi the highest paid campaign worker on the McCain/Palin payroll. Continue reading →

With laughably incoherent interviews and a finding Sarah Palin abused her power against a state trooper, many Republicans are regretting John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as Vice President. But not Oregon Senator Gordon Smith. Here he is in an Oct. 9 debate: Continue reading →

Looks like high price executives are putting the trillion dollar taxpayer bailout of Wall Street to good use. The New York Times reported today: Continue reading →

In the pivotal, tight race in Oregon for U.S. Senate, Democrat Jeff Merkley has gone after Republican Gordon Smith for voting for George Bush’s Wall Street bailout. Here’s a new Merkeley ad: Continue reading →

Vermont progressive Senator Bernie Sanders echoed local Congressman Peter Defazio’s opposition to the Wall Street bailout. Here’s his video: Continue reading →

When Jon Ruiz was hired away from an assistant city manager job in Fresno to serve as Eugene’s new city manager this year, he defended Fresno’s reputation for urban sprawl. The San Francisco Chronicle profiled the sprawling, “corrupt,” “depressing” city at the millennium as “a cautionary tale of planning gone wrong and development gone wild.” Continue reading →

The U.S. Senate is considering passage today of a Wall Street bailout modified to include tax breaks for the wealthy. The measure includes a provision to reduce the “alternative minimum tax,” a tax originally designed to make sure millionaires couldn’t deduct away all their taxes. Citizens for Tax Justice, a leading non-partisan fair taxation think tank, analyzed the impact of a similar AMT elimination proposal in 2006. Here’s what they found: Continue reading →