Renew Eugene’s Renewal Agency
My elder son had his first driving accident when he was ten. I was away on a business trip, on the phone that morning with his mother. Nathan was anxious to get to his first day of soccer camp,...
View ArticleAn Argument Against Single-Payer Health Care
Before the latest Bernie Sanders boomlet dissipates, let me surprise you with a little bit of researched anti-socialism. The United States is uniquely committed to providing health care to most of its...
View ArticleWorld Comes To Eugene’s Taste Buds
I’ve been telling my friends for twenty years that Eugene will have arrived when it grows up to fit its restaurants. I always believed it would take a biblical generation of 40 years before the quality...
View ArticleOregon Could Revive Localism With IP 28
Chances are very good Oregonians will be voting in November whether to assess a gross receipts tax on businesses with sales that exceed $25 million annually. Once all the shouting begins, the...
View ArticleEugene Can Grow (Up) This Week
Hey, Eugene! Would you like to be a big town? Would you like to have more than enough to do on almost any night of the year? Would you like our national reputation to no longer include the word...
View ArticleUrban Renewal Needs Investment Professionals
The Eugene City Council recently extended the life of the city’s downtown urban renewal district for another few years, focusing spending on four projects: ultra-fast wi-fi for downtown, transforming...
View ArticleGreater Greater Eugene
Big things usually change slowly, except when they don’t. The town of Eugene changed this week. After growing in population, reputation and confidence for decades, it became the city of Eugene. Some...
View ArticleEugene: Compare to Where?
There’s no place quite like Eugene, but what other place comes closest? That’s not a question we ponder very deeply, but what good is an Oregon winter without a little quiet pondering? I’ve thought...
View ArticleEugene’s Doppelgänger: Paris
Eugene residents and visitors love to debate what other towns compare favorably with us. Over the years, I’ve written about eerie similarities I’ve noticed when visiting Anchorage, Alaska and Portland,...
View ArticleEugene Needs a Downtown Light Show
Eugene should use the Parisian strategy for welcoming strangers. It requires height and light. When Eiffel’s Tower was erected in 1889, most Parisians hated it. History confirms the structure’s lack of...
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