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Saturday February 1
Ken Peplowski
Fri February 7
Con & Mary
Sheffer
claims. Neighbors would have appealed
the Greenway permit if we would have
been able to raise another $1,000 in
such a short time. It’s too bad PUDs are
approved to invade a neighborhood and
river path just because they [developers]
have money. The only thing that is green
about this project is the money. OMC has
not budged on compromising.
Anne Love
Eugene
IDOL WORSHIP
An open letter to the Eugene City
Council: The public library is the golden tree
of knowledge. The City Council wants to put
out the light. Any councilperson who votes to
trim the branches will force me to reactivate
my activism and campaign actively against
you in the next election. Please don’t make
me do it; I’m retired and lazy.
Vince Loving
Eugene
NOT SO USELESS NIPPLES
While The Vagina Monologues is a
wonderful show and everyone should see
it, no one is served by the exclusionary
and inaccurate quotation that EW used to
promote it — i.e., that the clitoris is “the
only organ in the body designed purely for
pleasure.”
Last I checked, dudes also have bodies,
and the great majority of those bodies have
nipples (two of ‘em), whose only apparent
function is to make their possessors feel
good, when appropriately stimulated.
Sure hope Mr. Savage doesn’t savage
you over this sexist misstep.
Vip Short
Eugene
TIP YOUR GAS JOCKEYS
I work at the local gas station SeQuential
Biofuels, and I’d like to encourage you to
tip the people pumping your gas. About
130,000 jobs in Oregon are minimum
wage. If you have held a minimum wage
job, you know how hard it is to pay bills
and eat healthy, much less support a family.
This is a service job, and as you probably
know Oregon and New Jersey are the only
states in the nation where drivers don’t
have to pump their own gas.
Situations where a tip is appropriate:
• You pull up when there are already
two or three other cars being pumped,
and the attendant serves you in an
expedient, effi cient and friendly
manner.
• When we wash your window, hook
you up with free coffee or assist you
with car trouble.
• If you fi ll one or more propane tanks!
• If you’re feeling generous. (If you tip
inside the store we don’t see any of
that.) Change makes a great tip!
• It really helps out people like me who
are on an extremely tight budget and
breathing carcinogens all day.
A gas station is a good place to see
people’s true nature, and the majority of
you are sweet, compassionate people.
Thank you for buying local and supporting
a gas station that emphasizes community,
healthy food options and the inevitable
transition to locally sourced renewable
fuels. Bless those of you walking, biking,
taking the bus and running local biodiesel,
and bless those of you who already tip. You
really help out.
Ché Ruth-Cheff
Eugene
RURAL SUPPORT NEEDED
In spite of the palpable need for swift
action, President Obama’s February 2009
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act would have benefi ted from a more
systematic rollout. With luck, the president’s
Promise Zone Initiative will embrace the
lessons learned by Presidents Kennedy,
Johnson and Clinton while implementing
similar initiatives.
The 2014 State of the County address
identifi es jobs creation, the development of
a positive economic future and collaborating
with federal forestry partners as critical
2014 Board of County Commissioners
deliverables.
These sentiments should be tested
through one or more administrative proof of
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