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About Eugene weekly. (Eugene, Oregon) 1993-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 2016)
NEWS • The independent private Oak Hill School will be the new home of Super Summer, a three-week academic enrichment program for advanced learners and Talent and Gifted students, and will expand to include sixth and seventh grade students. The popular program has been housed at the UO for the past 35 years. Super Summer will begin its permanent residency on the rural Oak Hill campus near LCC June 27. The application process will open Feb. 8. See oakhillschool.com or call 744-0954. • Casper’s Cannabis Club is a new business founded by a group of entrepreneurs from Florida, Myron Brandwine, who serves as general manager, and partner investors Daniel Karten and Joseph Lekach. “Our mission is to become the number one marijuana dispensary retailer in the U.S.,” Brandwine says. The store is located close to campus on 814 E. 12th Ave., next to Barry’s Espresso Bakery & Deli. “We believe that dispensaries are beneficial for patients because we offer variety, high-quality tested products,” Brandwine says. “We do not sell to minors, we educate, and we are able to recommend the right strains for each patient’s needs in a professional and compassionate manner.” Casper’s has a Facebook page and can be called at 357-4328. • For those in the medical marijuana business at any level, new rules are being written in light of the legalization of recreational pot. The proposed new permanent administrative rules, about 100 pages, can be found by searching for “OMMP rules.” Oral testimony on the rules was taken around the state this week and written comments can be emailed to publichealth.rules@state.or.us or mailed to OHA Public Health, 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 930, Portland 97232. Deadline is Jan. 29. Kris McAllister of Springfield has been following this issue and sent us his testimony calling for lower fees, not reducing allowed plant numbers, residency requirements for OMMP growers and investors and more. He can be contacted at resolventset@gmail.com for more information. • Eugene Modern Dance is now offering dance classes Thursday evenings for pregnant women, says studio owner Susanna Meyer. “The class is suitable for women of any level of dance,” she says, “from beginner to dancers who have trained for years.” The studio is at 5185 Nectar Way. Call 485- 1531. • Free one-on-one job-help sessions are being offered from 4 to 6 pm Thursday, Jan. 28, at the Eugene Public Library. Preregister for the half-hour counseling sessions by calling 682- 5450. 10 JILL STEIN WANTS TO MAKE WAR OVER OIL OBSOLETE PHOTO: TODD COOPER JILL STEIN, GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE, CALLS FOR CHANGE The American media has been paying a lot of attention to the clown car that makes up the pool of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. And on the Democratic side, the media has finally noticed that Bernie Sanders is making inroads into what many thought was a surefire Hillary Clinton ticket. But lately, Green Party presiden- tial candidate Jill Stein says, there’s been a little more oxygen in the room, and the media and American public have realized that Stein and the Greens have something to say. A physician and environmental- health advocate, Stein was the 2012 Green Party presidential candidate, and she’s seeking the 2016 nomina- tion. Stein stopped by EW’s offices on a swing through the Northwest. Stein has as much to say about American politics as she does about her Power to the People Plan and Green New Deal, calling for a transi- tion to 100-percent clean and renew- able energy by 2030, and investing in public transit, sustainable agriculture and conservation, thereby creating new jobs. Third party candidates often take a lot of heat — the regularly repeated criticism is that, by casting a ballot for a third party, vot- ers instead help the worst possible candidate take office. Stein says she’s in the Green Party because the other two parties are “under the thumb of war profiteers, predatory banks and fossil fuel pi- rates.” The recent announcement that Stein’s campaign has raised enough money for federal matching funds, allowing her to get January 28, 2016 • eugeneweekly.com public funding for the race for the White House, has given her campaign a boost. Stein says she wants to mobilize the 43 million students and young people burdened by student debt, calling this group “a self- organizing demographic” through mechanisms such as social me- dia. One element of her platform is canceling education debt for those students. “It’s a no brainer,” Stein says, pointing out that the same was done for the banks. Stein says her background as a doctor fighting to improve health and safety led her to discover that the solution wasn’t going to be clinical medicine but political medicine. She says that health care, education, jobs and housing are all rights, calling for “Medicare For All” single-payer public health insurance program, an end to high-stakes testing, a $15 min- imum wage and housing that benefits the public good. Renovating and re- storing housing also creates jobs, she points out. The candidate also calls for mak- ing war over oil obsolete, a carbon tax, public ownership of energy production and transitioning to renewable fuels. Greening the en- ergy system also avoids the health consequences of fossil fuels, Stein says, and the catastrophe that is climate change makes “Pearl Harbor look like small potatoes.” Barack Obama “put his troops on the shelf after he was elect- ed,” Stein says, but she wants to use the “bully pulpit” that is the presidency to create “transformational change” and “turn the White House into a Green House in 2016.” — Camilla Mortensen One element of Jill Stein’s platform is canceling education debt for students. ‘It’s a no brainer,’ Stein says, pointing out that the same was done for the banks.
