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They are proposing an ambitious project that surpasses anything we’ve seen in this part of Oregon.

Get students back into their classrooms, where hunger and emotional fragilities can be addressed. Parents — especially mothers — will be more productive and less stressed.

Goldschmidt showed Portland’s neighborhood leaders what a light rail system would look like and offered them a bargain.

Almost nothing comes in the mail these days that produces any good feelings.

County officials refer to Highway 126 from Thurston to McKenzie Bridge as Lane County’s longest Main Street.

If we didn’t reflexively expect the best, could we have more of all the things we want and need — musicians, teachers, government services?

How do we plan for the unplanned, support serendipity, and create coincidences?

We usually talk about gentrification as if it’s one thing. After it’s done, it is. But when it’s happening on the ground, it involves multiple factors that silently align. They often come together accidentally at first. Slowly, they coalesce into consensus. Then people see a crescendo that seems unstoppable. The best strategy is to interrupt […]

The city of Eugene has been updating its Climate Action Plan, but meeting its aggressive targets looks increasingly unlikely. The city aims to reduce fossil fuel use to 50 percent below 2010 levels in the next ten years, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7.6% annually. The time has come to show that the […]

I can think of a living organism that almost fits Volk’s definition, is definitely larger than our local hero mushroom, and is nearly as old.