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THE DRIVE-IN BOYS CLUB
This story (“Movie Nights,” EW 7-30)
lists Smokey and the Bandit starring
Burt Reynolds. The photo for the article
is of the late Mr. Reynolds and two-time
Academy Award winner Sally Field, the
co-star of the movie.
How hard is it to include women in
the credits?
Nyla L. Jebousek
Newport
NO NEWS ISN’T GOOD NEWS
As a sports fan growing up in the Chi-
cago suburbs, I was accustomed to roll-
ing out of bed and dialing WH 3-3080 to
get all the recorded sports scores from
the day before. The West Coast games
that were designated “late” in the local
papers (four of them when I was growing
up: the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago
Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News and
the Chicago American) or games that
extended past the newspapers’ dead-
line (usually after midnight).
Living on the West Coast for the past
40 years that hasn’t been an issue until
now. The USA Today’s Register-Guard
should be named the Late Register-
Guard, and while the disappearance of
box scores is an irritant, we’re going way
beyond sports in much more substan-
tive matters.
In short, I can’t think of a reason
to read this piss-poor excuse for what
once was a credible local paper. I could
easily drop 250 words listing the many
egregious editorial decisions and mind-
numbing deadlines this new non-local
paper is adhering too.
Instead, I’ll pose this question to fel-
low readers. Other than the obituaries,
why would I subscribe to the RG? Seri-
ously, I can’t think of a reason. Virtu-
ally everything they’re printing I can get
elsewhere (including full, updated box
scores). Eugene Weekly — any chance
you can expand to a daily — or twice
weekly? There is a huge hole where local
journalism used to live in our town.
AM Traisman
Eugene
PORTLAND HAS
SET THINGS BACK
Before all the national focus shifted
from Black communities — whose lives
depend on intelligent nuanced activism,
and who have been putting in hard, un-
glamorous work into coalition building
for some 200 years — to Portland and
a bunch of spoiled white kids with no
skin in the game (no pun intended) or
informed knowledge of the issues, there
was a national conversation on police
models and the history of policing. For
a second there I thought we were on the
verge of real important change.
Then Portland, the whitest city in
America, stole all the focus from those
conversations and seriously set things
back. Of course, once Portland’s spoiled
E U G E N E W E E K LY . C O M
white college kids get bored, the actual
work will continue because for Black
communities this is a real issue, a fuck-
ing life or death issue and not a chance
to look cool on Facebook. Still, it's super
sad and makes me really ashamed: Once
again white privilege has fucked things
up.
Ian Blumberg
Eugene
VOTE OUT EVERY
GOP SENATOR
I am writing to express my dismay at
the pattern and script President Donald
Trump is running about elections. It is
alarming! I can't stand to listen to him
anymore! He is trying to discredit an
election that has not happened yet and
justify staying in office! I hold every Re-
publican senator who helped keep him
in office responsible for this ridiculous
situation. It is clear that while Ameri-
cans suffer and die, the Republicans
hem and haw about what to do. It is clear
they care more about the economy and
their own pockets than the American
people. I would urge every family mem-
ber who lost a loved one due to Trump's
failed handling of COVID-19 and every
American who has lost their jobs, homes
or business to vote every Republican
senator out of office! I have just one
voice and one vote!
I fear for the United States for the
first time in my life. I am angry and feel
helpless; to quote a famous phrase,
“Who ya gonna call” when you are afraid
of the president? I am retired and feel
my joy and freedoms are being taken
away by a pandemic and a president,
while billionaires profit and support
him. Thanks for letting me share.
Julie Thibedeau
Cottage Grove
DEMOCRATS ARE BLIND
As Portland burned, Democrats
stood by and looked the other way. Gov.
Kate Brown wouldn’t call in the Nation-
al Guard for help because (her words)
“That’s exactly what Donald Trump
wants.”
Portland Democrat Mayor Ted
Wheeler announced to the mob that he
will “stand with you no matter what.”
The Legislature, ruled by Demo-
crats, and Brown further hamstrung the
police through bills stuffed with “emer-
gency” clauses.
As crime explodes in America’s ma-
jor cities, Democrat mayors and city
councils defund the police. In a Senate
hearing on the violence, not a single
Democrat on the committee would con-
demn the perpetrators. New York Dem-
ocrat Congressman Jerry Nadler called
the reports of violence “a myth.” Leftist
media shills repeatedly claim the dem-
onstrations have been “peaceful.”
Consumed with hatred for Trump,
Democrats apparently feel that the un-
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