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We’re eliminating the social aspect of improvement — what Alice and others called “natural groups” — because education and endearment slow things down. Achieving higher standards requires human contact. We’re losing that, at our peril.

“Perception does not make fact,” said Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy. Except when it does. Mayor Piercy wrestled aloud whether she would support extending the Downtown Exclusion Zone for another two years, as requested by Chief of Police Pete Kerns. The complete quotation, as recorded by Register-Guard reporter Edward Russo, shows the complexity of the mayor’s […]