Eugene Weekly

If you missed the Eugene State of the City event last week, here’s the condensed video highlights: Continue reading →

The Oregonian has picked up on the story that EW first ran Thursday about Oregon National Guard soldiers’ exposure to a highly toxic chemical in Iraq. Continue reading →

In her fifth state of the city speech tonight, Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy called for tapping into the Obama federal stimulus package, an Economic Summit, discussion of an in-house city attorney, locating a solar panel factory at the abandoned Hynix plant and hinted at possible tax measures for more jail beds, crime prevention and affordable housing. Continue reading →

A record crowd of more than 1,000 people packed the Lane County Fairgrounds pavilion to watch the elections and Barack Obama victory speech on projection TVs. Here’s a short look: Continue reading →

Not sure what to make of this disgruntled insider video of KEZI news from a year ago. Have things changed? Continue reading →

After crashing and burning, the McCain-Palin campaign, along with the Republican party, continues to implode. Here’s the Republicans at Fox news on just how clueless Palin is: Continue reading →

Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy, Lane County Commission candidate Rob Handy and U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley have all won their tough and pivotal election fights. In unofficial final results, Piercy beat Jim Torrey by 2 percentage points. Handy beat Bobby Green by just one percentage point. Merkley leads by three percent with 79 percent of the statewide vote counted. Smith reportedly plans to concede shortly. Continue reading →

Jeff Merkley appears likely to defeat Gordon Smith in Oregon’s tight U.S. Senate race. With an estimated three quarters of the vote counted at 8:18 pm, Merkley had come from behind for a 0.5 percentage point lead of 8,270 votes. With late counted returns in Lane and Multnomah counties heavily favoring Merkley, it appears mathematically unlikely that Smith could make up the deficit. At 7:33 pm, the Oregonian projected a Merkley victory. Smith has not conceded. State law triggers an automatic recount if the margin is less that 0.2 percent. Continue reading →

The pivotal Rob Handy v. Bobby Green race for Lane County Commissioner has tightened and remains too close to call. At 7 pm with about three-fourths of the vote counted, Handy holds on to a lead of just 113 votes, 0.44 percent. Earlier returns had showed Handy with a lead of up to 2 percent. State law triggers an automatic recount if the margin is less that 0.2 percent. Lane County Elections will release it’s next results, what appears likely to be a near complete vote count, at 10 am Thursday. Continue reading →

Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy appears likely to win a narrow re-election victory. With about three-fourths of the vote counted at 7 pm, Piercy’s lead over Jim Torrey had widened from less than one percent to two percent, a few hundred votes to 1,363. With the dwindling number of late counted ballots apparently favoring Piercy, it appears mathematically unlikely that Torrey will be able to make up the deficit. Lane County Elections will release it’s next results, what appears likely to be a near complete vote count, by 10 am Thursday. Continue reading →