bigger giveaway for the joint city-county en-
terprise zone.
The county lost about $2 million in rev-
enues from the bigger Hynix tax break, with
the city and state school funding losing the
rest. The county could revisit the enterprise
zone tax break at any time to staunch the flow
of revenues it’s losing to businesses and cor-
porate profits. But the county is instead still
focused on an income tax that could even hit
the paychecks of county residents living
below poverty. — Alan Pittman
CLEAN SKIES
CAMPAIGN
Two local public interest groups, The
Oregon Toxics Alliance (OTA) and Citizens
for Public Accountability (CPA) are organiz-
ing support for State Rep. Paul Holvey in his
campaign to pass legislation banning agricul-
tural field burning.
A gathering in support of CPA’s Clear
Clean Skies campaign is planned for 7 pm
Wednesday, Feb. 28 at EWEB. Lane County
Commissioner Pete Sorenson plans to talk,
and a new, short documentary by The Sky’s
the Limit will be shown. The audience will see
aerial photos of field burning, and citizens af-
fected by the smoke will tell their stories.
Starting again this summer, the “dark
smoke-breathing dragon of field burning
comes billowing towards us,” says Lynn
Apsel of CPA in a message to CPA’s mailing
list. “Those formerly idyllic skies suddenly re-
semble the smog in Los Angeles. If you’re
caught right in the path of the smoke, the
choking impact can be staggering.”
CPA says the state of Oregon’s seriously
flawed “solution” has merely reduced the
number of acres burned, “still stranding us in
the midst of 40,000 acres of dense, dark
smoke, leaving our beautiful skies filthy and
many gasping for breath.”
Holvey is expected to introduce legislation
this session that will ban all field burning,
forcing grass seed farmers to turn to more eco-
friendly alternatives. Already lobbying law-
BY PAUL NEEVEL
LEIGH ANNE
JASHEWAY-BRYANT
Burned out from the heat of Houston
and a career in health care manage-
ment that left her no time to be with
her friends, Leigh Anne Jasheway-
Bryant escaped in 1994 to cool north
Eugene and a new life as a comedy
writer and motivational speaker. “I
came on vacation for a week and unex-
pectedly bought this house,” says
Jasheway-Bryant, who has written 13
books and taught a class in comedy-
writing at LCC for 12 years. Her humor
column appeared in the Comic News for
nine years before the magazine shut
down local publication. “So I started a
radio program,” she says. “On Women
Under the Influence of Laughter” airs at
9 am Saturdays on the Air America
affiliate KOPT AM 1600. Jasheway-
Bryant speaks on health and humor to
50-plus conferences yearly. She emcees local events such as a “Playshop for Grow-
Ups,” from 1 to 4:30 pm on Saturday, Feb. 24 at the Eugene Red Lion, a benefit for
the Willamette Animal Guild, the Shelter Animal Resource Alliance and their cam-
paign to control pet overpopulation. Details at sarasavesanimals.org More about
Jasheway-Bryant’s events (and products) can be found at accidentalcomic.com
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