able to access health care, while rates go
down for those who purchase their own in-
surance, everyone wins.
Even though this yes vote imposes an
assessment on insurance companies and
health care providers, they support it too!
They aren’t actually losing money, but in-
stead investing in commerce.
It keeps costs down when we have
health care. Our preventative appointment
opportunities keep us out of the all-too-
expensive ER visit that would otherwise
raise rates; less visits there means health
care prices stay lower.
This yes vote on Measure 101 will
mean no more cuts to Medicaid. Our most
vulnerable Oregonians will be able to ac-
cess health care alongside the 210,000 who
will see an estimated 6 percent decrease in
the rates they pay.
I should mention that participants of
both the Democratic and the Republican
parties agreed on this plan.
Danielle Marelli
Eugene
LET ME BE CLEAR
To whoever took my yard sign:
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Kate Lemley
Eugene
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DON’T GET STUMPED,
OREGON
How would you feel if Oregon’s bed-
rock environmental laws were suddenly
suspended so that logging companies could
aggressively log our public lands? Un-
fortunately, the House of Representatives
passed a bill earlier this month that will do
just that.
The misleading title of the “Resilient
Federal Forests Act” (HR 2936) conceals
the real intent: to create massive loopholes
leaving the public and the scientific com-
munity little to no opportunity to have a
say over what happens to our forests.
After living in the southwest for a little
over a year, I craved the trees and the ocean
so much that I had to come back to Ore-
gon. It took driving through miles of desert
and previously logged, now desolate land
to fully realize the preciousness of the tiny
strip that makes up some of the only old
growth forest that we have left.
Will we give it away to logging com-
panies and to a few unsustainable jobs that
will run out when the trees are gone?
Right now there are efforts to pass more
similar legislation. Sen. Ron Wyden will
play a key role in deciding whether we
preserve the integrity of the environmental
laws that we’ve worked so hard to put in
place. I am not against logging, but when
legislation is being considered that would
allow the lawless logging of our public
forests, I ask our leaders to stand up by
opposing HR 2936 and any similar legisla-
tion. Act now!
Lisa Flammer
Eugene
Encircle Films Presents
Singin' In
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December 1-17
A Jazz Kings Christmas at The Shedd 2017
The Brockett
Family
An Old-Fashioned
Christmas
Wed, Dec 6, 7:30 pm
Sun, Dec 10, 3:00 pm
Tue, Dec 12 Corvallis
Wed, Dec 13 Florence
Next at The Shedd
12.4 Shedd Youth Jazz
Orchestra FALL ‘17
12.5 Shedd Choral Society
Schubert’s Magnificat
Bijou Art Cinemas, 492 E. 13th Avenue
DISCUSSION Q&A WITH
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1.11 K. Beamer & H. Kapono
1.13 Victor Wooten Trio
1.19 Woideck: Latin Trane, etc.
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