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Mutual Benefit

Mayor Kitty Piercy

Dear Aidan R. Smith: You asked me for a response to your letter to the editor [“Student Disconnect,” 5/31], so here it is.

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Musings from Down South

Paul Conte

I’d be celebrating, too, if my company were just handed $3 million more in profit than even we had said was required to build a spa-like enclave for wealthy students in downtown Eugene.

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A Quorum Takes Three

Gary Crum

As the campaigns for the two Lane County commissioner positions come to a close, we’ve been hearing far more about the violations of Oregon’s Open Meetings Law by Commissioners Handy and Sorenson.

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Keeping Downtown Liveable

Diane Chavez and David Parker

This letter is in response to the April 19 letter from John Vawter of Capstone to Diane Chavez, the Olive Plaza administrator.

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We Can’t Afford to Lose Him

Scott Bartlett

Deciding to endorse and strongly support Pete Sorenson (commissioner for South Eugene including Whiteaker and the Jefferson/Westside neighborhoods) is an easy task.

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Who is Andy Stahl?

Sam Porter

Who is Andy Stahl? It’s not clear, from reading the campaign literature and newspapers, what Stahl’s political philosophy is.

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False Accusations

Art Johnson

It is important for our community that we re-elect Pete Sorenson as Lane County commissioner. There is no other candidate who has Pete’s experience or his knowledge or will hold to those core values that are central to the long-term health and well being of our community.

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A Weird Landscape

Tony Corcoran

We each have our own perch from which we watch the political season play out. These days I’m just a rural geezer down here southeast of Cottage Grove.

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Skyping with the Preacher

Mark Harris

What the bleep? Oh, a Skype from the Preacher. 

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An Epic Clash

Jerry Diethelm

I suppose it makes a kind of desperate sense to think about stepping up logging again on the BLM’s O&C lands.

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Abusive Eugene

Josh Schlossberg

Dear Eugene: You can’t say I didn’t try. Or that I didn’t give you a second — or third, or fourth — chance.

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Stomp the Helpless?

Robert A. Olsen

Let’s begin with the word “disingenuous.” Disingenuous means insincere, devious or false. Isn’t this really the description of the Eugene Budget Committee position “that they remain ‘animal friendly’ but merely want to provide animal services by a cheaper model.” The facts of the matter appear as follows.

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Coffee with The Preacher

Mark Harris

I was having my favorite drug of choice, dark roast Sumatra, with a man I’ll call The Preacher.

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Food and Faith

Deb McGee

Food is fundamental to life. In the warmth of the summer sun, fruits and vegetables grow abundantly.

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Time for Faculty Union

Gordon Lafer

Across the UO campus, teachers and researchers are organizing to create a faculty union.

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Struggle for Independence

Lynne Braverman McKinney

“Ellen passed away.” Even over the phone I could tell my friend was fighting tears. Just the day before, I attended the 10th annual meeting of Lane Independent Living Alliance (LILA). We talked fondly about Ellen Bombero and her role in its tumultuous beginnings.

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Opportunity Loss

Gary Crum

The Oregon Legislature must soon decide to fund or not to fund the construction of a state mental hospital proposed to be sited south of Junction City. That decision will determine the focus of treatment for Oregon’s mentally ill population for years to come. 

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