trendy or hip or popular. I think he needs to
get over his beef with the trendy doughnut
shops and start focusing on either quality
of product or quality of business if he
wants to be a food critic.
If you really are just looking to buy
your doughnut on taste alone and truly
don’t care if it is made at a gas station or
the hippest place in town, then I offer you
a challenge, Ben Ricker: I’ll pay to do a
blind taste test of all the doughnut shops in
Eugene. Just name the time and place.
Heather Jones
Eugene
that if they enter a community with no
concern for that society’s well being, those
lack of feelings will be returned tenfold. If
you invade, trash and abuse, you will be
resented and even denied normal respect
and support.
I believe that we should only embrace
those who return our efforts in some fashion.
If we keep extending the proverbial olive
branch, with no appreciation or obligation
to help out in return, the situation will only
get worse.
I am very willing to help those who
try to help themselves and also, of course,
those who for whatever reason are unable
to help themselves.
Robert England
Eugene
VOTING FOR HILLARY
On Jan. 20, 2017, we will have a new
president. After the dust settled on the two
major national conventions a few weeks
ago, it is clear to me that the president
will either be narcissist billionaire Donald
Trump or former United States Senator and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
I am urging Lane County voters to
join me in voting for Hillary Clinton. As
a lawyer and longtime elected official in
this community, there are many reasons
to vote for Hillary Clinton, but one of the
reasons to vote for her is that her opponent
is Donald Trump. Mr. Trump is, by my
experience over a 40-year career in public
service at the federal, state and local levels,
the worst and least competent nominee of a
major political party in history.
In my opinion, the worst thing he did in
the campaign is to threaten a sitting federal
judge. The threat against Judge Gonzalo
Curiel showed a complete disregard
for respect for the separation of powers
concept that is essential for all elected
officials to observe.
Hillary Clinton has a strong progressive
voting record as a United States senator and
has the experience and temperament to be
a great president. She is the best qualified
candidate for president in U.S. history.
In the primary, I supported Bernie
Sanders, and I now ask you to please join
me, President Obama and Senator Sanders
in voting for Hillary Clinton for president.
Pete Sorenson
Lane County Commissioner
Eugene
EW BURN
As I write this I stand over a pile of
wadded up and crushed copies of Eugene
Weekly, and in front of me is a pile of
burning Eugene Weeklys. This wasn’t
malicious, simply coincidental, but I
realized that the Eugene Weekly does so
much for so many people who never read
the poorly written articles within your
“paper.”
I picked up several stacks of EW
as packing material for moving. This
protected my various glasses and china
BERNIE’S MEASURE
quite well, kudos. Once done moving
into my new house, it was time to fire up
the barbecue, and EW was again to the
rescue as the cheap printing material is
fantastically flammable. These events gave
me an epiphany: If literally nobody reads
EW anymore because of the corporate
bias blatant in their poorly written articles,
what are people using EW for?
I listed the top five uses for EW: #1
Toilet paper for the homeless, #2 packing
material, #3 BBQ starter, #4 floor covering
to collect animal droppings, #5 paper crafts
like origami/ paper maché.
Please get better journalists, editors, and
stop being an embarrassment to our city.
Stefan Strek
Eugene
POISON EXPOSURE
This week at the Lane County Board
of Commissioners meeting, I advised them not
to mess with the citizens initiative process, so
that Lane County residents may vote to give
ourselves relief from aerial herbicides.
In responding, Commissioner Bozievich
referred to “the Triangle Lake incident” as
if it were a single unfortunate event. In
truth, Oregonians living near industrial
timberlands are at risk of poison exposure
twice a year, year after year, the standard
being spring and fall sprays to kill all
vegetation in monocrop plantings.
Lynn Bowers
Forestland Dwellers
Eugene
RED BARN
CHEMTRAIL CONSPIRACY
Nicholas S. Anderson is unsure about
the difference between chemtrails and
contrails [Letters, 8/25]. There is a clear
difference and, while I am no scientist or
engineer, I believe I can provide a good
layman’s explanation.
Contrails are not “sprayed,” as
Nicholas contends. They are created from
airplane engine exhaust. Contrails are
composed primarily of water vapor, which
condenses and freezes at high altitudes
("con" equals condensation). Contrails are
man-made, line-shaped clouds, but clouds
nevertheless, and they act predictably like
natural clouds. Temperature, humidity and
wind conditions all affect the formation
and dispersion of clouds. Just as natural
clouds persist all day or fade or blow away,
so too do contrails.
Chemtrails have the same composition
and attributes as contrails (see above).
There is but one difference. Chemtrails
are part of a conspiracy, slyly engineered
by the evil shadow government to control
our minds and distract us from reality. Is it
working?
Michael L. Yaeger
Eugene
TROUBLING BEHAVIOR
As an old-timer in Eugene, I have
to wonder why it hasn’t occurred to the
rootless travelers and even the many
downtrodden (for want of a better term)
Bernie Sanders has just launched a
new organization, “Our Revolution,” that
will carry forward the work he started in
the Democratic primary this spring. As he
promised his supporters, the fight for social
and economic justice will not end with the
primary but will be carried on by millions
of Americans in their cities and their states.
Bernie campaigned on the idea that
income inequality and corporate control
of our political and economic systems
are a threat to our democracy. He called
on the large corporations and the top one
percent to pay their fair share in taxes. He
got millions of votes in the Democratic
primary on this platform, and he beat
Hillary Clinton here in Oregon.
Now we have a chance to put his ideas
into practice by passing Measure 97 in
November. Oregonians can send the strong
message to the rest of the country that we
the people have the power to demand that
the largest corporations doing business
in Oregon pay their fair share in taxes.
Right now our state has the lowest overall
business tax in the nation.
Bernie’s supporters will vote yes
on this measure, and we know how the
Republicans will vote. The question is
whether Hillary’s supporters will step up
and support Oregon schools, seniors and
health care.
Let’s
begin
Bernie’s
“political
revolution” here in Oregon and show what
people's democracy looks like. Feel the
Bern!
Pete Mandrapa
Eugene
SCHOOL FOOD
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parents’ to-do lists are now filled with
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