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• The Eugene Celebration Parade begins at 10 am this
Saturday at South Eugene High School, heading up High Street.
Good places to watch are along High and Pearl between 11th and
18th. Expect abundant political entries this year. Rep. Peter DeFazio
traditionally shows up with his wheelbarrow and shovel to scoop
up the virtual horse crap. Will Pete’s November opponent Art
Robinson be in the parade tossing “healthy” radioactive dust from
his float? Probably not, but joining DeFazio this year will be state
Sen. Val Hoyle and her growing flock of radiant (but not radioactive)
redheads called “Gingers for Hoyle.” The ever-popular Peace Train
will likely return and coal train protesters are planning an entry this
year (see Activist Alert), fueled by the news of a deadly coal train
derailment in Maryland, one of 20 this year nationwide. Local
dignitaries will grin and wave, and we might see the “legalize it”
folks there pushing Measure 80, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act — if
they remember to show up. See a parade map and all the
Celebration details in a special section inside our paper this week.
• Thanks to an economics professor’s wicked blog UO Matters
and Register-Guard reporter Diane Dietz’s stories, we read the
embarrassing account of the UO hiring a Denver political
consulting firm for $25,000 to persuade UO students to add
more than $300 a year to their fees for additions to the student
union and the recreation center. Students voted “No” to this
proposal twice in the last year. Fortunately, daylight shut the deal
down. Makes you wonder if anybody in Johnson Hall is reading the
national stories about student debt, no jobs to pay it off and asking
whether higher education is the next “bubble” in our economy.
• Paul Quillen and Volifonix are the two finalists this year in
our third annual Next Big Thing contest. Come hear them and
cheer them on at 1 pm Saturday at the Eugene Celebration Eugene
Weekly/KRVM Stage on Willamette. We had a great music contest
this year and we want to thank all the exceptional musicians who
submitted their original singles. Most of the top 16 bands and
performers on our CD this year braved the heat and performed at
the Lane County Fair for our judges and crowds of fairgoers.
• Speaking of the Lane County Fair, we hear the Oregon
ACLU has complained to the Fair Board about cookies, cakes and
candy at the Fair. What? It seems the bakers and candy makers had
to agree this year to donate their leftover contest entries to the
Eugene Mission. The ACLU says it’s a “constitutional violation” to
“require individuals participating in a county service or project to
support a religious institution.” It looks like the rules were softened
as a result of the complaint. We like the idea of homeless folks
benefiting, but not this way. How about a bake sale to benefit
FOOD for Lane County? The issue, along with a controversial
proposal to have the 2013 Fair move to the last week of July, will
be on the Fair Board’s Sept. 11 agenda.
• Gov. Kitzhaber cut through the national political garbage
on health care with a recent upbeat message to his Oregon
supporters. He says the Affordable Care Act is “a huge step
forward” and “Oregon is taking a step further.” It’s still not the
public option supported by many of us, but Dr. John won a waiver
from the federal government in May to let us deliver Medicaid in
Oregon through “coordinated care.” He defines this as “puts
patients first and allows health providers to work together as a
team, focusing on prevention, improving care and finding
solutions within the community.” He says pilot projects around
Oregon implementing this kind of care are already reducing
emergency room visits and acute care for people with chronic
conditions, including asthma, heart disease and mental illness.
• As we expected when Libertarian VP candidate James P.
Gray stopped by EW last week, we have some pretty different
viewpoints, especially when it comes to economic policy. But one
thing’s for sure: The two major parties aren’t discussing doing
anything new and constructive when it comes to the money pit
of failures that is the war on drugs. This underscores why it’s
important to keep more voices in the national presidential
debates instead of using a rigged system that ensures only
Democrats and Republicans get that most important element of
national exposure. It’s time for the Libertarians and the Green
Party to stand at the podium, too.
• We label it “barbaric” when female rape victims in Africa
and the Middle East are blamed, shunned, beaten or even
imprisoned if they complain. The U.S. equivalent is when
politicians seek to deny abortions to women who are impregnated
by rapists. Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin is in
that camp and he’s not alone; he’s just more outspoken than
most. Republican leaders are distancing themselves and their
money from Akin, not because they disagree, but because they
don’t want this misogynistic attitude making headlines in an
election year when Congress, the White House and the future of
the Supreme Court are all on the line.
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
biz beat
After some delays, the H Boutique, owned by the
Ritchie family of jewelry retailers, had its invitation-only
opening party this week at Fifth Street Public Market’s Inn
at the 5th. The jewelry and fashion store offers “plush
interior amenities and an air of fresh exuberance in
customer service.” See www.hboutique.com or call 246-
2412.
M@annequin is a new boutique upstairs within Salon
DeLange at 3007 N. Delta Highway, #205. The shop offers
one-of-a-kind fashions made in the U.S. and Canada that
are not available anywhere else in the Willamette Valley,
says Carol DeLange Grandaw, who opened the salon in
1995. See www.mannequinsd.com or call 343-0520.
FOOD for Lane County picked up more than 17,000
pounds of canned goods at the Lane County Fair this year,
3,000 pounds more than last year’s food drive.
Local wordsmith Mary Meredith Drew has started a
new proofreading and copyediting business called Polish
Your Prose. She can be reached through www.
polishyourprose.com or call 731-1951.
The fourth annual BRING Home and Garden Tour will
be Sunday, Sept. 16, featuring a dozen unique dwellings
highlighting creative, sustainable living. See www.
bringrecycling.org or call 746-3023.
Emerald Marketing Association is a new group
breaking away from the local chapter of the American
Marketing Association, according to one of the group’s new
volunteer board members, Joanna Bartlett. New president
is Mark Tschetter of Feynman Group. Other board members
are Amira Fahoum of Ridgeline Management, Jana
Waterman of NeuroSpine Institute, Alma Fumiko Hesus of
Cappelli Miles, Jan Brooks of Oregon Imaging Centers,
Haley Lyons of Kernutt Stokes Brandt & Co., Sarah Wilson
of Downtown Athletic Club, Mike Brown of Cawood, Peter
Thorsson of Palo Alto Software, Doug James of National
Photocopy and Tammy Lockwood of Lockwood Research.
See emeraldmarketingassociation.com for upcoming
events.
Send suggestions for Biz Beat items to editor@eugeneweekly.com with
“Biz Beat” in the subject line.
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