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Chatter of a $15 minimum wage has permeated the nation this year, with Bernie Sanders introducing legislation last month to raise the federal minimum wage and Seattle being among the first cities to try a living wage for its citizens. Continue reading
Planned Parenthood keeps getting hit with undercover videos from the anti-abortion group, "Center for Medical Progress," trying to discredit the reproductive health care provider and defund it. Continue reading
If you missed retired professor Guy McPherson's talk on near-term human extinction June 24, the video is now on McPherson's website. See also our cover story "Radical Predictions" July 16. Continue reading
You can be part of one of those moments that make Eugene the awesome and unique city it is tomorrow at when the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce hosts an official ribbon cutting at As You Like It: The Pleasure Shop tomorrow, 12 pm Aug. 25. Mayor Kitty Pierce checks out "Eugene’s new and premiere sex-positive resource center, retail shop, and producer of sensual organic body products" at 2 pm. Continue reading
The McDougal brothers, who have faced criticism over they years for their involvement in projects such as mining scenic Parvin Butte or trying to get a water right on the McKenzie River, are applying for a fill permit for "0.76 acres of emergent and scrub/shrub wetlands" near Green Hill Road in West Eugene. Continue reading
The Environmenal Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) is asking for the public's help writing emails and advocating for freeing Eduardo Arturo Mosqueda Sánchez, a young human rights and environmental lawyer who has been imprisoned without bail in Mexico. The full call to action is below. Continue reading
It's 1892 and Abigail Rook is looking for a job in New Fiddleham, New England. No sooner has she gotten off the ship she took from Europe than she meets the peculiar detective R.F. Jackaby. He uses Sherlockian deduction mixed with some Harry Potteresque crytozoological beings to determine Abigail has recently been in Eastern Europe. Not that long after their chance encounter, the intrepid Abigail enters into his employ and meets the supernatural residents of his home. Continue reading
The dust hasn't settled from UO settling for $800,00 the Title IX lawsuit filed by the young woman who alleges three UO Ducks basketball players raped her, but notices of more lawsuits have appeared. This is just in from The Oregonian's higher education reporter, Richard Read: Continue reading
It doees smell like smoke today in Lane County. Earlier this week it was thanks to fires in southern Oregon, but as of yesterday a fire off Territorial Hwy., near Lorane is making our local air quality not-so-fresh. Continue reading