Viewpoint: What Deadlock? Looking more closely at Faye Stewart's vote BY DAVID HINKLEY Was Commissioner Faye Stewart's vote on June 9 to break the "deadlock" in regards to his father's Measure 37 claim an ethics violation? As the claim was filed by the commissioner's father there was clearly a conflict of interest. When this matter first came before the Lane County Board of Commissioners on May 17, Stewart quite properly declared an actual conflict of interest. As required by the state ethics rules, he did not participate in the debate or vote. [Read More]   Viewpoint: Vital Diversity A wider civic vision makes a better downtown. BY SAM PORTER Don Woolley's civic vision (cover story, 6/22) is at once illuminating, refreshing and dismaying. In addition to an illuminating description of how the Eugene downtown real estate market works, he advances a sobering criticism of market participants. According to Woolley, people elsewhere are knowledgeable and agree on how commercial properties values are determined. By contrast, what he calls Eugene's "uneducated population," many of whom "are uneducable," make doing business difficult. For this reason, he says, lenders and investors avoid Eugene. [Read More]
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