Eugene Weekly

UO's Bike Music Festival returns for the fifth time Friday, April 26. If you've never seen a pedal-powered stage, head down to the EMU Amphitheater or to Cozmic. Continue reading →

Activists gathered at the Eugene downtown post office on Tax Day April 15 “to challenge militarism and to call for the re-ordering of federal spending from supporting war to meeting human and environmental needs,” says Penny Poll organizer Michael Carrigan of Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC). Continue reading →

This information was just sent out to University of Oregon students and faculty: Dear Members of the UO Community: Today, we learned to our disappointment that doors leading to the Native American Student Union (NASU), the Vietnamese Student Association and Black Women of Achievement (VSA and BWA) had, respectively, been vandalized. We are shocked and saddened that events like that can happen on our campus. Continue reading →

The watchdog group Think Progress is reporting that the highly profitable Regal Entertainment Group,  which includes Regal Cinemas, is cutting non-salaried shift workers to 30 hours a week to avoid mandatory health insurance under Obamacare next year. See http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/17/1878481/regal-theater-obamacare/?mobile=nc Continue reading →

Has former Lane County Commissioner Jack Roberts been improperly forced out of his position as the executive director of the Lane Metro Partnership? An email from Roberts to public officials details what led to him write a letter of resignation on April 8. The email alleges he resigned  in order to maintain funding from the cities of Springfield and Eugene and from Lane County. He writes, "these things are often as much about personality and other people's ambitions as about merit." Continue reading →