Independence Day may have come and
gone, but Independents Day is just around the
corner. On Thursday, July 13, many independ-
ent, locally owned businesses around town will
be hosting contests, giveaways, drawings and
discounts to celebrate their independent status.
Helios Resource Network, a local non-
profit, is expanding its “Buy Local” campaign
to include this celebration of locally owned,
independent retail stores to show just how the
local economy can be supported. According to
the Andersonville Study of Retail Economics,
for every $100 spent in a locally owned store,
$73 stays in the local economy. And for every
$100 spent in nationally owned stores, only
$43 stays in the local economy. And for every
$100 spent in big box stores, only $14 stays in
the local economy.
The Corvallis Independent Business
Alliance (CIBA) has tracked its community’s
dollars. There, a full 80 percent of dollars spent
locally stays local and adds to what its report
calls a “multiplier effect.” One dollar spent at a
locally owned business “will return five times
that amount within the community through
city taxes, employees’ wages, and purchase of
materials and supplies at other independent
businesses.”
In Eugene, City Councilor David Kelly
says he has “tried for at least five years” to add
buy-local initiatives to the City Council
agenda. “I realize that a healthy economy will
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• Mayor Piercy, along with mayors of Lowell, Creswell and Coburg, spoke to City Club
recently about Eugene’s “foreign policy,” how all of us in Lane County are connected,
or not. Lane County has 11 incorporated cities, so many were missing from the discus-
sion. But it’s worth noting that Piercy’s sustainable business initiative is getting atten-
tion in at least some of our neighboring communities. Sustainability was not a priority
expressed by Mayor Weathers of Lowell, however, who said his constituents love their
big lots and semi-rural setting (a “legitimate lifestyle”) and want to expand the town’s
developable land. Some regional issues were discussed, such as sewage, water, trans-
portation and the economy, but the best questions went mostly unanswered. For exam-
ple, how do the land-use policies in all our communities affect our shared environment
and quality of life? Big town or small town, all our planning tends to be short-sighted
and based on optimistic assumptions about transportation and energy costs, popula-
tion growth, social stability, etc.
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• Last week we gave EPUD some strokes for its support of a new photovoltaic panel
system on a commercial building in Junction City. Now we are hearing EWEB engineers
are in cahoots with Western Beverage for its new offices and refrigerated warehouse in
west Eugene. The project will include a thermal mass building shell; premium efficiency
lighting, heating and cooling; and using ammonia as refrigerant instead of freon. The
new building will save about 50 percent on energy costs and pay for itself in about five
years. We’ll tip a cold one to that.
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• It’s curious that Eugene’s Art and the Vineyard this year did not include F-15 flyover
flights by the Oregon Air National Guard on July 4. There’s nothing quite so patriotic
as screaming fighter jets scaring the crap out of everybody, making babies cry and ter-
rorizing wildlife as they pollute the air and waste huge amounts of fossil fuel. Not that
we are bitter or anything. Creswell’s July 4th parade was scheduled for a flyover, along
with some other towns that likely requested them from the Portland base. Maybe we
should do it next year. It’s good to be reminded of the shock and awe we inflict on peo-
ple around the world.
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Methamphetamine abuse in the U.S. has
been exaggerated by public officials and the
media, according to a 41-page report issued in
mid-June by the Sentencing Project, a
Washington, D.C. think tank. The report refer-
ences and confirms a Willamette Week story by
Angela Valdez that took issue with the award-
winning Oregonian series on meth over 18
months that included 261 stories.
In WW’s “Meth Madness” published
March 22, Valdez argued that Portland’s daily
paper had “sacrificed accuracy” in order to
campaign against meth. The Sentencing
Project report says, “The Oregonian series re-
peatedly referred to a ‘meth epidemic’ in
Oregon without providing any statistical sup-
port, mischaracterized the significance of the
growth in methamphetamine treatment admis-
sions, and suggested a link between Oregon
property crime rates and methamphetamine
use that has been generally refuted by empiri-
cal research.”
Here in Lane County, the “meth epidemic”
is often cited as a reason for increasing funding
for law enforcement, and Gov. Kulongoski
used the word “epidemic” in a press release
this week about meth and new restrictions on
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• The Wildish sand and gravel bunch have made a greedy land grab on 1,400 acres
near Mount Pisgah. Using the legal blackmail allowed under Measure 37, Wildish threat-
ened county taxpayers with a $20 million stick-up unless the company is allowed to
build whatever it wants on a key expanse of scenic land between the park and the river.
Lane County should not roll over for such banditry. The county should fight back with a
variety of strategies including: using federal environmental rules and local traffic safety
laws to block development; refusing to extend roads, sewers and other infrastructure
to the site; threatening to cut the corporate bandit off from public contracts (they
make millions at the public trough); challenging the Measure 37 claim on grounds of
lack of enforcement of regulations since no specific development has been proposed;
blocking transfer of any regulatory waivers to people who buy property in the develop-
ment since Measure 37 isn’t transferable; and immediately and retroactively imposing
higher taxes since Wildish now says the unregulated land is worth so much. If the
county can’t block the development, it should condemn all the land for an expanded
public park. Tapping federal and private grants for natural area acquisitions, condem-
nation would be a lot cheaper and less ugly than the publicly subsidized urban sprawl
Wildish is trying to extort from taxpayers.
pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the man-
ufacture of methamphetamine.
The compete Sentencing Project report by
analyst Ryan S. King can be found at
www.SentencingProject.org and the Valdez
story can be found in WW’s archives at
www.wweek.com
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Abbott, who works with the Fellowship of
Reconciliation Task Force on Latin America
and the Caribbean, is travelling the country to
speak about her work putting her body on the
line. She shows a film and speaks about her ex-
periences at 7 pm Thursday, July 6, in 240A
McKenzie Hall, the corner of 12th and
Kincaid, on the UO campus. Her visit to
Eugene is sponsored by Committee in
Solidarity with the Central American People
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