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Eugene has a downtown known for free love and paid parking. Springfield is seen as just the opposite.

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The president of the University of Oregon is uniquely positioned to open the throttle on the progress already underway and the best time to begin is at the beginning.

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Oregonians know something about moving against the tide, pushing the rope, defying gravity. It’s not for nothing that wild salmon capture our imagination so deeply, boldly swimming upstream to spawn.

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Summertime is less mathematical and more poetic than summer itself. It steals a few days from May and a few from September to make its season fuller than the rest.

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Is a Big Mac really more dangerous than a repeat offender with a drinking problem who hit his girlfriend and then tore the phone off the wall when she tried to call for help?

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Jurisdictionally speaking, northbound commuters are in Springfield and southbound motorists are in Eugene. That must mean something.

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The monopoly on timely information has been broken up. With the addition of smart phones, the Internet has caught and passed newspapers, disseminating information much more quickly.

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We need a deregulated taxi system. Something less like a limousine service and more like codified hitch-hiking. Where better than Eugene to test a safer version of the transportation choice of the 1960s? I’ve seen it in revival recently.

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Our parents warned us never to accept rides with strangers, but every trip in an elevator is essentially that — a ride with strangers.

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As publishing paradigms convulse, who will ask if a thot can be expressed with fewer words? For the next little while, maybe Twitter. Kudos.

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