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Michelle T. Wyatt, M.D.
TO THE EDITOR
joists. It used to be that carpenters actually
had to know how to cut rafter roofs. Now
only engineered truss roofs are used, which
require hardly any skill whatsoever. Only
thing missing is the ketchup and fries.
The end result has been a degree
of waste that has wiped out 98 percent
of the forests that were here when
Columbus landed in return for a sea of
tacky, disposable houses that aren’t even
interesting enough to call campy. At the
sawmill, large parts of trees and those with
defects are wasted to get the choice cuts
for dimensional lumber. On the job site,
there’s a massive pile of cut-off lumber
ends and plywood. It makes no economic
sense for a $20-per-hour carpenter to
waste time sorting through. This leaves
the question, why attack Seneca for their
biomass power plant? The Recession has
nearly killed the lumber industry; why not
pursue the advantage? This time in history
could be better spent making America’s
urban centers beautiful and vibrant places
to live and work in concrete and steel mid-
rise mixed-use buildings.
Warren Weisman
Eugene
INCOME TAX FAILURE
The city income tax did not fail because
of a “mountain of obstacles.” It failed
because most voters have never, ever, lived
in a city that imposed such a tax, and they
did not want to start here.
Mike Kopf
Eugene
Dr. Wyatt has been Board Certifi ed in
Internal Medicine since 1994. She has an
interest in the prevention and treatment of
chronic disease including heart disease,
diabetes, women’s health, as well as
acute illness and injuries. Her focus is
on wellness and preventative medicine,
including the mind/body/spirit connection.
ELECTION COVERAGE
For a great example of excellent
journalism, I highly recommend The
Register-Guard editorial from Thursday,
May 19. The newspaper editor analyzed
the vote for and against the new city school
tax measure in a concise, well-written and
totally objective manner.
In contrast, read the cover story or any
of the editorials written by Alan Pittman
in the Eugene Weekly. Pittman pushed his
pro-measure agenda with a cover story and
several editorials that were published in
three consecutive issues of the Weekly. All
of these pieces were blatantly one-sided
and painted the anti-measure group as a
bunch of rich people who don’t care about
the education of our children. Looking
at the election results, it’s obvious that
more than rich people voted against the
measure. By almost a two to one margin, a
lot of people across the spectrum thought
the measure was a bad idea.
While Pittman loves nothing better
than to write snide remarks about The
Register-Guard, it wasn’t until his
third and fi nal editorial that he casually
mentioned that Art Johnson, part owner
of the Eugene Weekly, was the biggest
donor supporting the tax measure. It
wasn’t until the Register-Guard editorial
on May 19 that it became publicly known
that Hillary Johnson, the chairwoman of
Strong Schools Eugene, is the daughter of
Art Johnson. In the name of journalistic
integrity, Pittman should have disclosed
in his fi rst editorial the almost incestuous
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