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• Vote! Vote! Vote! It’s time to start practicing being an involved citizen
as the November election looms closer. EW is happy to provide some fun
voting practice with our happy, happy, joy, joy, unicorns-and-rainbows-
themed Best of Eugene balloting getting underway. Vote on the paper
ballot (feel free to decorate with sparkles and colors) in this week’s and
future issues or online at bestofeugene.com by October 1.
• When City Council Ward 2 candidate Juan Carlos Valle resigned as
chairman of the Eugene Police Commission last week, two credible sources
confirmed that he stepped down rather than be voted out of leadership.
EW was told that other members were unsatisfied with his leadership, and
he was probably going to be voted out. Why mention this? We believe it’s
relevant to his qualifications for the City Council seat. Valle tells us he
resigned in order to spend time on his campaign.
• After almost three months of being locked out of his office, we hear
County Commissioner Rob Handy has access again, though still not
24-hour access to the building as the other commissioners have. And on
Aug. 15, as EW goes to press, the county commissioners will vote to
approve minutes from previous meetings, including the May 3 “emergency
meeting” that kicked all this off. Handy says he will be asking for a
discussion and vote on the May 3 minutes specifically, saying he protests
the “dual nature” of the notice given to commissioners — Commissioners
Bozievich, Leiken and Stewart got notice of the 9 am meeting the day
before while Sorenson and Handy received notice at 7:38 am that day, he
says. Handy adds that the so-called “emergency” prompting the meeting
was not defined as the public meetings law requires and he plans to vote
“no” on the minutes.
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Cargo Bike Rally - Sat. Aug. 18th
Show how you carry!
Bring your rig to the Cargo Bike Roll Call.
Documented by Liz Canning, cargo bike filmmaker.
2:30 pm - Hideaway Bakery - Free drinks and treats.
More details - facebook: arrivingbybike
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• Local residents who do not subscribe daily to The Register-Guard used
to get the free Emerald Valley Shopper in their mailboxes each Wednesday
featuring wire service celebrity gossip and recycled ads from the daily
paper. Now, apparently to save postage, the Shopper gets tossed on
driveways and yards. We’ve noticed them piling up in front of empty
rentals and littering driveways of people who are out of town, advertising
that nobody’s home. Must be a better, greener way to manage the
distribution of this freebie.
• Mountain Bike Oregon takes place Aug. 17-19 in and around Oakridge,
but you can’t go; it’s sold out. Better luck next year! We hear MBO has
everything you want in a bike adventure, from the evening adult beverages
(Oregon craft beers) to the plethora of bikes and gear to check out. What
we love is the way Oakridge is transforming itself from a timber town to a
town that coexists with and profits from the ecosystem around it. Turns
out you don’t need to cut trees to benefit from public lands.
SLANT includes short opinion pieces, observations and rumor-chasing notes compiled by the EW staff.
Heard any good rumors lately? Contact Ted Taylor at 484-0519, editor@eugeneweekly.com
WAR DEAD
In Afghanistan
2,067 U.S. troops killed* (2,054)
17,095 U.S. troops wounded in action
(16,944)
1,173 U.S. contractors killed (1,173)
12,793 civilians killed (12,793)
$554.3 billion cost of war
($551.9 billion)
$163.7 million cost to Eugene
taxpayers ($163 million)
In Iraq
The war officially ended December 2011 with a total of 4,422
U.S. troops killed, 31,924 wounded in action and undisclosed
hundreds of U.S. military suicides. But U.S. contractors are
assuming a larger role, high levels of U.S. spending continue,
and the body count from civil unrest grows.
1,569 U.S. contractors killed (1,563)
117,847 to 1.2 million civilians killed*
(117,776)
$805.9 billion cost of war
($805.7 billion)
$238 million cost to Eugene
taxpayers ($237.3 million)
Through Aug. 7, 2012; sources: icasualties.org; defense.gov, U.S. Dept. of Labor (contractor deaths updated occasionally) *
highest estimate; source: iraqbodycount.org; based on confirmed media reports; other groups calculate
Iraqi civilian deaths as high as 655,000 (Lancet survey, 2006) to 1.2 million (Opinion Research Business survey, 2008).
Afghan civilian deaths from guardian.co.uk tallied monthly.
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