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contents JANUARY 22 - JANUARY 29, 2026 2 4 6 9 11 12 13 14 15 Letters News Bricks $ Mortar Calendar OPINION letters EDUCATIONAL CONCERNS AND MORE Music Listings Arts & Gardening Savage Love Classifi eds Astrology who to blame Jody Rolnick Camilla Mortensen ADVERTISING MANAGER Dave Newman PUBLISHER EDITOR HOW TO REACH US CALL 541-484-0519 EDITOR/NEWS TIPS Editor@EugeneWeekly.com LETTERS Letters@EugeneWeekly.com ADVERTISING Advertising@EugeneWeekly.com CLASSIFIED ADS Classy@EugeneWeekly.com CALENDAR/EVENTS Cal@EugeneWeekly.com CIRCULATION Distribution@EugeneWeekly.com FOUNDED JOYFULLY BY ELISABETH LYMAN, LUCIA MCKELVEY, SONJA UNGEMACH, BILL SNYDER AND LOIS WADSWORTH AS WHAT’S HAPPENING IN 1982, EUGENE WEEKLY WAS THEN PUBLISHED AND LOVED BY ANITA AND ART JOHNSON, AND FRED AND GEORGA TAYLOR STARTING IN 1992. Eugene Weekly is published every Thursday by What’s Happening Inc. Five free copies maximum per person from newsrack. $1 per additional copy. POSTMASTER: SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO EUGENE WEEKLY, 1251 LINCOLN ST., EUGENE, OR 97401-3418. ©2025 WHAT’S HAPPENING INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. SPS Cutting Off Its Own Leg Public education in Springfi eld faces two major hits this year. Budget shortfalls have the city looking at a massive cut to library funding, while the school district just decided to fi re dozens of teachers mid-school year. Why should one service or staff classifi cation bear the brunt of ALL cuts? Why not take a little from admin, tech subscriptions, and other operations? Nothing sensible operates this way. If I want to lose 25 pounds, I don’t cut off a leg and declare my goals met. If my personal spending needs reigning in, I cut back in multiple places: dining, entertainment, that used-book habit... Both these cuts are exclusively to entities whose sole purpose is to serve our community. This isn’t logical from a community service or business perspective. We already know the library brings extra foot traffi c (and sales) to downtown small businesses. We also know that schools reducing class options and increasing class sizes discourages enrollment. That means both cuts continue a cycle of lower revenue and smaller budgets. It’s a shame that educational services are being targeted. As we can tell from these decisions, Springfield is already educationally underserved. Thankfully, we’re periodically given the chance to vote for new decision-makers. Ky Fireside Springfield Community College vs. Corporate College I have taught at Lane Community College for over 20 years, and I have never felt so demoralized as I do under this current administration. The situation at Lane reminds me of all of those documen- taries where a Big City Corporation comes to a small town in order to dismantle the local economy before taking away all the resources for themselves. To date, this administration has spent hundreds of thou- sands of dollars of the college’s budget on slick anti-labor lawyers, been found guilty of email surveillance of the labor union, and misrepresented budget numbers. All of this in the name of an agenda aimed at stripping away worker protections, rights, and benefi ts while simultaneously increas- ing workloads and class sizes to the great detriment of the educational quality of the students. Trying to provide your students a high-quality education is hard enough without having to worry about losing your job at any moment in order to maximize output effi ciency. I hope, for the sake of the students, we don’t end up striking, but I also hope, for the sake of the students, that a strike will show this administra- tion we stand together in protecting our community college from hostile forces that only seem to care about their own agenda, and who seemingly refuse to listen to the voices of the very people who make up the community they are supposed to serve. Jose Chaves Lane Community College, English faculty instructor Eugene ICE ‘Loves’ the Constitution My name is Ulises Demian Rivera Garcia. This is a really important topic that is important to me because I come from immi- grant parents and other parents and fami- lies’ rights are getting violated or ignored. Recently, with our current administration, we have seen our government start to deploy mass immigration raids all over the country. With ICE deporting thousands of people, they have been ignoring their right to due process, which every person has a right to. FREE 10-week parenting group offered to families in Lane County Childcare & Meal Provided Weekly $25 gift card for participation Build community with other parents while enhancing parenting practices to increase cooperation and connection. Thursdays | Feb. 5th-April 16th | 5:30-7PM Oregon Community Programs • 1170 Pearl Street. Eugene, OR Spots are limited, sign up today! Call or text 541-743-4350 2 January 22, 2026 support.eugeneweekly.com
