AltWeeklies Wire
Aid on the Asphaltnew
Hitting the streets with Eugene, Oregon's unique Mobile Crisis Intervention Unit known as CAHOOTS.
Eugene Weekly |
Dante Zuniga-West |
06-30-2011 |
Homelessness
Carbon Nation: CO2 Injection Hits the Northwestnew
Carbon capture and storage. It’s magic! With a little hocus pocus gas becomes liquid. But it might be a little more like a curse than a spell, or at least it has been for a farm in Canada where ponds began to fizz and ponds began to bubble.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-16-2011 |
Environment
Drone Zone: High-Tech War Games in Oregon?new
If senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have their way, and the FAA reauthorization bill is signed into law with an increase in drone-testing areas inserted, then a swath of high desert, currently home to sage grouse and antelope, could become prime real estate for drones or more accurately, unmanned aerial systems. As war becomes more and more like a high tech video game, the question becomes: Does Oregon want to be in the business of testing killing machines?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
05-20-2011 |
War
Battle Over Biomassnew
Angry loggers, protesters locking themselves to cars and belligerent law enforcement bring to mind the face-offs between loggers and activists during the logging wars of the Northwest in the 1990s. But these days, with only a few exceptions, it’s energy and climate change, not old growth, that are causing the clashes between corporations and ecowarriers.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
05-13-2011 |
Environment
An Ignominious Auranew
Portland screenwriter Jonathan Raymond revamps the Western with Meek’s Cutoff.
Eugene Weekly |
Rick Levin |
05-09-2011 |
Reviews
Your Own Personal Savagenew
Is Dan Savage one of the great ethicists of our time? Some say yes; Savage says no.
Eugene Weekly |
Shannon Finnell |
04-29-2011 |
Sex
Eugene Weekly Goes Right Wingnew
Considered the hippie liberal bastion of hippie liberal Eugene, what would Eugene Weekly look like if it went right?
Eugene Weekly |
Eugene Weekly Staff |
04-01-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: April Fools, Koch Bros
How Not to Get a Drink Thrown in Your Facenew
The shotgun approach to dating and other ways not to pick up women.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
03-25-2011 |
Sex
Chemical Lovenew
The science of sex and other ways to love your body.
Eugene Weekly |
Shannon Finnell |
02-10-2011 |
Science
What's Green on Oregon's Legislative Agenda?new
When not deciding really important things like whether border collies are more symbolic of Oregon than Labradors, Oregon’s Legislature will be voting on issues that affect not only the economy, jobs and whose dog is the coolest but the environment as well.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
01-31-2011 |
Environment
Tags: Oregon, Sierra Club
From BP to politics: Oregon Governor Kitzhaber's New Chief of Staffnew
Charming, funny and Oregonian to the core, Robinhold brings a little Big Oil slickness to the Oregon governor’s office.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
01-28-2011 |
Politics
Eager for Beavernew
Is it time to help Oregon’s state animal dam the wild?
Eugene Weekly |
Shannon Finnell |
01-20-2011 |
Environment
Tags: Restoration, Beaver
BCS Booster Bowlnew
It’s Phil Knight vs. Bobby Lowder for the national championship of college football.
Eugene Weekly |
Alan Pittman |
01-10-2011 |
Sports
Growth and Prosperitynew
Urban sprawl doesn't create jobs. The “conventional wisdom” that growth generates economic and employment benefits was not supported by the data. The study found that those metro areas that have fared the best had the lowest growth rates.
Eugene Weekly |
Eben Fodor |
01-06-2011 |
Housing & Development
Cry Me a Rivernew
The battle for water in the West is not just about who owns it. It's also about how to keep it clean.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-27-2010 |
Environment
