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Nellie
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A Girl Named Bill
July 1
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to restore the honest transparency and ac-
countability lacking in our current city
government.
Lisa-Marie DiVincent
Eugene
SUSPICIOUS OF VINIS
The timing of the mayor’s interest in
a dormant 2002 report regarding an audi-
tor seems suspicious. Comparable cities
have found the position meritorious and
compellingly cost effective, but the ratio-
nale for a mayor’s listening tour, i.e. “the
community demands that we do better,” is
underwhelming.
Mayor Lucy Vinis’ viewpoint suggest
that a “cross section of the community”
could very well conclude that the 2002
report is still an idea whose time has not
come and thus not appropriate for the city.
Lane County and the EPD assessed the
merits of a position and decisively acted. If
a position with Lane County is acceptable to
the mayor now, why wasn’t a joint venture
proposed when the position was created?
Could the unstated reason for the may-
or’s current motivation be the recent filing
for a voter initiative to have a popularly
elected auditor on the 2018 ballot who would
work with the council to determine areas of
study, evaluate performance, develop met-
rics to document achievements and strate-
gies for improvement, but also be account-
able to the citizens of Eugene?
C. L. Veal
Eugene
MEAT IS NOT MURDER
I was blissfully unaware about your ar-
ticle about this food truck (Chow 6/15), but
I read David A. Caruso’s response to it, and
I must say: David A. Caruso sounds like an
elitist snob.
I won’t raise the issue of factory farms,
which everyone agrees is, more or less,
appalling. I will take issue with Caruso’s
insistence upon human beings being her-
bivores. I can equally make the claim that
they are omnivores — “all-eaters,” with
equal validity. After all, canines were
meant for tearing flesh. Arthur C. Clarke,
for one, posits that “man-apes” were well
on their way to extinction by being strictly
herbivores, and that their “switch” to an
omnivorous diet saved them.
So get down off your high horse, Mr.
Caruso; so you can be herd (pardon the
pun), let alone understood.
Michael E. Peterson
Eugene
SLAUGHTERHOUSE ZERO
It’s ironic that the closure of three local
slaughter facilities leads the Eugene Week-
ly to conclude that the “demand for locally
raised meat has grown.”
In reality, the demand for killing and
consuming animals has decreased, locally
and internationally, as we are increasingly
educated and aware of the beneficial im-
pact of plant-based food choices on the
planet, the animals and ourselves.
Despite what the featured sheep farm-
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