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There was no harm in giving our city council the keys to downtown development when nothing was going anywhere, but now that things are moving, the council should slide over and give more control to people who deal with these matters all the time.

We want our minimum to be above any line labeled as poverty, so let’s add 10 percent to declare a non-poor minimum wage of $12.82 for 2015. That’s not a bumper sticker number; it’s a “we did our homework” number.

What would companies charge for up to 4 million customers, on one bill? Probably less per person than you and I are paying right now.

Call it grief, or post-traumatic stress, or a ghost, if you like — our memories shape our identity and our identity shapes our actions. We’re always coping with the past and the present at once.

Here’s a question I find myself asking: Is now the time, and is 2077 Willamette Street the place, to build an indoor track and field complex?

If the city of Eugene walked under a ladder or crossed the path of a black cat, this Friday the 13th would be the time to admit our bad luck, and then hope for the best. Investment bankers have come to towns like ours to turn a quick buck, and it’s starting to affect our […]

Instead of increasing the mandatory minimum wage, how about raising the voluntary minimum wage? Here’s how it could work.

Small business owner-operators — people ready to hire a dozen people with specific skills if they can find the right location — should get more of our attention.

Here’s a quandary for our news media’s editors to consider: What constitutes a group? Affiliation with a group gives an individual extra stature, but what if the group is an invention? If your poker club agrees the train tracks through downtown should be buried, can you be a group? If you called yourselves Citizens for […]

Oregon commissioned a surprisingly prescient economic development study in the 1980s. Extraction and harvesting of natural resources was beginning to look “over.”. The manufacturing industry offered the best wages with the most stability. But what should we be manufacturing? The report offered a myriad of answers, but among them was one little nugget that now […]