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• Please don’t fire Sean Spicer, Mr. Trump. If he fades into (among?) the bushes,
Melissa McCarthy and Saturday Night Live can’t make us laugh with her wonderful
impersonations, even rolling down 58th street in NYC on her Spicey podium. We
deserve that every Saturday night.
• Tax-cutting zealots around the country who think the public doesn’t want to pay
anything for services should visit Lane County, where on Tuesday the vote was 72.9
percent — almost three quarters of the ballots cast — in favor of the law enforcement
levy that pays for jail beds. Could it be the pendulum is swinging back toward responsible
government and paying for things that could prevent jail in the first place, such as better
education? Ever since Measure 5 and its evil legislative spawn we’ve seen what
slashing taxes indiscriminately does to the quality of life. Maybe Tuesday’s vote shows
hope for a recovery.
Other election results as we go to press leave us gratified to see that the Fern Ridge
library levy passed 62 to 38 percent — not as high as the county jail levy but
encouraging! For the 4J school board, Anne Marie Levis kept her seat, and she will be
joined by Judy Newman after some hard-fought races with excellent candidates. It’s
exciting to see so many people running for school boards across the county, and we
hope that bodes well for our future as we watch the Trump presidency continue to defy
logic and sanity.
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• One problem that stood out for us during the May 12 City Club of Eugene
program on driverless cars was that professional driving is the single largest
employment area in the U.S. So where do all those jobs go when cars don’t need
drivers? Nigel Jaquiss and Corey Pein write in Willamette Week on April 26 that
driverless cars are coming to Portland, like it or not. They say that Mayor Ted Wheeler
expects the first applications by late June and “the first remotely controlled truck has
already debuted here.” We wonder when they will be coming to Eugene?
• KLCC’s longtime Music Director Michael Canning, who retired after 30 years at the
public radio station, died on May 14 of pneumonia, KLCC reports. Eugene and its arts
and music community has lost a strong advocate. When Kanning retired, KLCC staff gave
him a standing ovation and the community does so again in losing him. As of press time,
a memorial had not yet been planned.
• A posthumous piece by Alex Tizon, the late University of Oregon journalism professor
and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was published as the cover story of The Atlantic this
week. “My Family’s Slave” is the story of a woman, Eudocia Tomas Pulido, and of Tizon’s
recognition that his family kept her in slavery throughout most of his life and hers. Tizon was
eloquent in publicly coming out with this difficult tale, and it’s unfortunate that he is not here
to be part of the necessary discussion that the story and the reprehensible institution of
slavery evokes. There have been both praise for his writing and calls for reparations to be
made to Pulido’s descendants. We will follow the debate over this story closely in the coming
days.
• WHAT WE’RE READING: Gordon Lafer’s The One Percent Solution. How Corporations
are Remaking America One State at a Time just out from the Cornell University Press. An
associate professor in the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of
Oregon, Lafer recently spoke and signed books at Tsunami Books.
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