EW Is Out Of Touch With The Community
Your Thursday edition paper was published on Veterans Day this year. I saw only two references to Veterans Day, and they were both in ads … Continue reading
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Tell City Leaders: No More Fossil Fuel
Attendees of the Conference of Parties (COP) 26 in Glasgow, Scotland tackled international agreements to limit climate disruption. Whether COP26 will result in substantive, socially … Continue reading
Just Don’t Steal Them All
Leaf blowers have resulted not only in loud, intrusive noise in the fall, but also in the excessive removal of every last leaf, even from … Continue reading
‘The Housing Market Is The Problem, Not The Solution’
Recent letter writers have extolled the merits of HB 2001, the so-called “middle housing” state legislation that dictates sweeping zoning deregulation. Proponents ascribe to this … Continue reading
Slant
Eugene Weekly is delighted to announce we are one of 25 projects funded by the Google News Initiative’s North America Innovation Challenge to research into … Continue reading
Web Letters
Letter writers sound off on COVID-19, HB 2001 and the environment
Here at Eugene Weekly, we love our letter writers, but with COVID still hurting our advertisers — and thus our page count — we can’t fit all … Continue reading
We Already Have Gentrification
Carolyn Jacobs’ letter (“Middle Housing Has Developers and Investors Salivating,” 10/28) repeats the totally discredited talking point that HB2001 removal of single-house zoning is gentrification. … Continue reading
We Are Changing
Our Housing Needs to Change
By Stan Honn Change can be hard. It’s also inevitable, and something we should strive to participate in productively. I’ve lived in Eugene for nearly … Continue reading
Eugene Needs More Paths To Housing
I’ve been in Oregon for over 50 years. My family has lived here in Eugene for 17 years. Over that time our community has changed … Continue reading
Climate Action Needed Now From City Council
Having lived in the Willamette Valley almost my entire life, I have witnessed the dreaded shifting of our beautiful climate to one that is radically … Continue reading