MIGUEL
MCKELVEY
COURTESY
WEWORK.COM
• Following the pathetic Helsinki sum-
mit, at which President Trump played
tame lapdog to Russian dictator Vladimir
Putin, our own Sen. Ron Wyden made a
wildly optimistic statement about the
GOP. “Republicans can no longer ignore
the facts: Russia used @NRA to infiltrate
& influence US politics,” he tweeted on
July 16. Does Wyden, who is on the Sen-
ate Select Committee on Intelligence,
know something we don’t about the
GOP? Why does he think Republicans
are going to stop ignoring facts about
Trump’s creepy association with Russia?
• Speaking of
Russia, we again
suggest that
you read Rus-
sian Roulette by
Michael Isikoff and
David Corn, a fine
investigative job
by two journal-
ists who are now
on all the nightly
talk shows. This is “the inside story of
Putin’s war on America and the election
of Donald Trump.” It helps explain what is
happening to our fragile democracy.
• Makes us proud that Miguel McKelvey,
who grew up in Eugene and is the co-
founder of WeWork, a global real estate
company, just announced to his 6,000
employees that WeWork will not serve
meat at company events or even reim-
burse for meals that include red meat,
poultry or pork. That’s quite a nod to the
environment. McKelvey, who recently
spoke at UO graduation, is the son of
Lucia McKelvey, one of the founders of
Eugene Weekly.
• “PERS Snatchers” was the right title
for the City Club of Eugene meeting July
13. Bill Gary, lead counsel for Oregon
local governments in connection with re-
form of PERS, and Melissa Unger, execu-
tive director of the Oregon chapter of the
Service Employees International Union,
demonstrated in their talks the profound
problems in solving the gap between ex-
pected revenue and anticipated pension
payments in Oregon. Gary urged that
all sides work together for solutions,
suggesting that this has not happened
before. If that ‘s true, it sounds like a
good starting point.
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