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We Need a Protest Calendar

What would it take for Eugene Weekly to prepare and publish a calendar of upcom- ing demonstrations/political events in the area? Turnout is exploding at recent town meetings, such as Sen. Jeff Merkeley and Rep. Val Hoyle, and so many there asking what they can do. Attending such an event is certainly better for your health than endless doom scrolling.

John Brobst

Eugene

Editor's Note: Great minds think alike!

Please see the “Activist Alert” column we brought back!

Tax Exemptions are Gutting Us

Carol Ipsen's letter (3/25) hits the spot. How can anyone with common sense disagree that a city facing a serious budget short-fall should in no way continue its short sighted policy of property tax exemp- tions? Where else does the city get an important part of its funds to operate? I agree with Ipsen wholeheartedly that “you can't make this **** up.” For example, when I think of one of Eugene's greatest programs, an inspiration to other cities throughout the country, a critical service known as CAHOOTS is now facing a fund- ing shortfall. Another one of my favorite city services, the Eugene Library system is in dire straits. Again, I will add my voice to ask, stridently, when so many city services are desperately in need of funding, why city councilors continue these bizarre property tax exemptions.

Who might benefit from them? maRco Elliott Eugene

Don’t Privatize the Park Blocks

Isee with dismay that the city of Eugene wants to privatize the downtown Park Blocks for an apartment complex. Mayor Kaarin Knudson is right that Eugene needs more housing downtown, but she is wrong to try squeezing it onto the Park Blocks. That land was donated by city founder Eugene Skinner specifically for a court- house square, a central public park.

The tiny undeveloped lot beside the Farmers Market is simply too small for an apartment building, much less for the park- ing it would require. What downtown needs to attract housing is an intact, well-de- signed park. Let's expand the announced design competition to include park-only ideas.

To kick things off, here are five things I'd like to see in the undeveloped corner of the Park Blocks:

1. А playground. If you want people to live downtown, it needs to be livable for families with children.

2. Agiant letter-sculpture with the word “EUGENE.” Cities all over the world use these letter-sculptures to celebrate the center of town.

3. A canopy of bigleaf maple trees.

4. The Frog memorial bench that Satur-

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day Market vendors are raising money for.

5. A giant, strange SLUG queen throne. For 40 years, coronations have been held in the Park Blocks. Weirdness is OK in Eugene.

William Sullivan Eugene

Newman for 4J

With all the chaos coming from the federal government, it's important people know there is something concrete we can do to help our community' schools. Please vote in the local school board elections this May for a candidate who cares about children, for protecting public schools, and standing up for fair opportunity for every child.

When I was superintendent of Eugene 41, one of our great allies and commu- nity partners was Judy Newman. For 45 years, she has been a real champion for students. She co-founded and directed Early Childhood CARES at the University of Oregon, a program for young children with developmental delays or disabilities. Her program has helped more than 40,000 children acquire the skills to succeed in school. It is a national model for early special education. Newman will stand up to federal threats to public schools and to the undermining of equity and opportu- nity. She has proven this with her lifetime of work, and through her past eight years on the 4J School Board.

And, now that 4J is about to hire a new superintendent, I can tell you from expe- rience working with her over many years that we need Newman's stability, kindness and deep knowledge on the board during this transition. She is the only current 41 board member who has served more than one term.

Iam extremely grateful she is willing to step up and run again. We need her in these troubling times. Please join me in voting for Judy Newman in May.

George Russell Eugene

Make the Ems Truly Local

In your Slant column (3/20) you ask about the Emeralds’ marketing wizards coming up with a plan to keep the team in Eugene. Well, how about the Emeralds form a public company and offer shares to the public?

Г invest in shares if they had an IPO. This has been an effective way in other countries. That way the Eugene Emeralds could truly be “our” team and raise funds to stay local.

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Why the University of Oregon is on the precipice of a strike

"'m an economics professor at the University of Oregon, but you don't need a Ph.D. to see the problem here. The state should be investing more in UO, its faculty and students given the optimistic forecast that it is expected to take in $6 billion more in revenue over the next two years.

My fellow 3,850 faculty members at UO and I continue to teach tens of thou- sands of students each year, diligently and skillfully guiding them along their higher education path toward a successful career, despite wages that continue to fall well below inflation. Many of us work in cutting-edge research that puts UO on the map for innovative discoveries in medicine and other areas.

But we've just about reached our limit and are about to say to the univer- sity — partner with us on a fair contract by March 31 or we walk out.

We've consistently been asking for decent compensation and respect for the work we do for our students and the university, but we are rejected. The university’s administration has refused to bargain in good faith for over a year, setting itself up for a first-time-ever strike by full-time and part-time faculty. This is not what we ever wanted, but unless the university's administrators come to the table soon with serious intentions, we will strike.

This distressing situation says a lot about where we stand in the university’s overall view of its educational mission. From what we've seen and heard at the bargaining table, we're not being prioritized. It has already caused distressing turnover in many departments in which faculty members have left for positions at other institutions that pay better. Retention and recruitment are critical to providing students with talented faculty, offering a diversity of courses and keeping class sizes and workloads for faculty at reasonable levels.

The stunning thing about the university's resistance to a fair contract is that enrollment is up by about 3 percent and the state’s chief economist estimates there will be nearly $6 billion more in state revenue over the next two years. So why are they nickel-and-diming us when we aren't even earning livable wage?

We are the heart and soul of the university, yet they aren't willing to treat us as such.

This comes at a very challenging time for UO. There is great uncertainty about continuation of federal grants. It is now more important than ever that administrators and state leaders step up and invest in the people who are educating and training the next generation of Oregonians. This is an invest- ment in the future of our students, the state and its economy.

Parents who send their children to UO expect faculty to be treated well so that they'll stay at the university and enjoy their work. No matter what the occupation or employer — when workers aren’t respected with fair compen- sation and a voice in the workplace, they'll look elsewhere where they are treated better.

There's still time left for UO administrators to decide that it would be better to work with the faculty as partners, not antagonists. We are hoping that will come in short order so we can avoid walking out.

‘Mike Urbancic is president of United Academics of the University of Oregon.

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It’s eug! BY EW EDITORIAL STAFF

>> Welcome to our annual Satire Issue where we crack ourselves up and sometimes scare readers. No, we are not rebranding as “eug.” Funny (and true) story about that — buy us a beer and maybe someday we will tell you whose bright idea that was!

>> Not satire, but should be. Anyone else get themselves a Signal app just їп case the Trump White House wants to include you on a text thread involving issues of national security? No? Just us?

>> In news we didn't fit into print: Head to EugeneWeekly.com to read Mirandah Davis-Powell's coverage of the recent Rep. Val Hoyle town hall — Hoyle said of the current turn of affairs: "This is different than anything we've been through in the history of this country.” Also read Emma J Nelson's update of the end (or new beginning) of the decade-long Juliana v. United States landmark constitutional climate lawsuit, whose namesake was born and raised in the Eugene-area, and Mason Falor on Oregon Coast Humane Society's impending acquisition of a vet clinic.

>>White Bird Clinic announced that starting April 7 it is temporarily reducing its CAHOOTS Mobile Crisis Response in Eugene to one shift per week. CAHOOTS in Springfield will still operate 11 am to 11 pm, seven days a week. White Bird's Crisis Hotline will be staffed 8 am to 8 pm, Monday through Friday. According to an open letter from CAHOOTS & HOOTS Workers Union to White Bird, all but seven CAHOOTS workers are being laid off. Union rep Chelsea Swift says CAHOOTS provid- ers “do not know" when the one Eugene shift per week falls, and that White Bird "wants that to be up to the workers left atthe program," but "that group is not yet finalized." Amée Markwardt, White Bird's interim executive director, says that its administration will “figure out this week" when the one shift will be, and that while only seven workers will be retained as full time, "most other staff have the opportunity to stay on the relief pool and stay employed in that avenue." Read more at Eugene- Weekly.com.

>> City Club of Eugene hosts writer, hiker and historian William L. Sul van noon, Friday, March 28, at WOW Hall. Sullivan, who also writes the Week- ly’s popular hiking column, will explain why he believes Oregon journalism has changed but was “more divisive in the past,” and “the one thing that never seems to change is people's need for news.” His late father was the editor of the (Salem) Statesman-Journal. More at CityClubOfEugene.org, and listen Monday nights at 7 pm on KLCC.

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ACTIVIST

Protests and activism around Lane County

BY CAMILLA MORTENSEN

<< Save Our Services Kick Off Fundraiser, 5 pm, Thursday, March, 27, Ninkasi Brewing, 155 Blair Boule- vard. "Join former Congressman Peter Defazio, nonprofit leaders, union lead- ers and elected officials in defending our important City Services including firefighters, libraries, animal welfare services and homeless outreach from attack."

>> Eugene Critical Mass Bike Ride, 6:30 pm, Friday, March 28,10 East Broad- way (Kesey Square). "Critical Mass is a worldwide movement where cyclists gather once a month in a festive and radically pro-bike environment.”

>> Bigfoot Strikers Town Hall, 2 pm, Saturday, March 29, WOW Hall, 291 West 8th Avenue. “Join us for a panel discussion with striking workers at Bigfoot Beverages who are entering their sixth month on the strike line and stand against Bigfoot’s anti-worker union busting.”

>> 10-Year Memorial for Brian Babb, veteran killed by Eugene police, 2 pm, Saturday, March 29, Sacred Connec- tions, 810 West 3rd Avenue.

>> Replace Reverse Reclaim/Hands Off! Eugene Fights Back, noon, Satur- day, April 5, 50501 Movement, Eugene City Hall, 500 East 4th Avenue. See Mobi- lize.us/handsoff/event/767006 for events in Corvallis, Florence and more. “This mass mobilization day is our message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies.”

Email Editor@EugeneWeekly.com with "Activist Alert” in the subject line to add protests to this listing, and go to EugeneWeekly.com to add them to the Weekly's What's Happening Calendar

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Bricks 5 Mortar

BY CHRISTIAN WIHTOL

TEXAN LASSOS U0’S TREETOPS MANSION

$2 million buys a Knight Campus advisory board member the Fairmount neighborhood home

BY CHRISTIAN WIHTOL

Texas-based investment exec has snapped up a contro- versial old bauble of Eugene real estate.

Willam Cornog — a former

leader at private-equity giant ККВ and a

current member of a University of Oregon.

advisory board — on March 14 bought the

Treetops mansion at 2237 Spring Boule-

vard from the University of Oregon for $2

million, according to the deed.

Donated to the UO nearly a century ago, the building in the elite Fairmount neighborhood was fought over for years by the donor’s heirs. The UO eventually obtained clear title to the house in 2018, and, after foot-dragging, put it on the market recently with a real estate broker for $2.5 million.

Cornog paid $500,000 in cash, and signed an IOU to pay the UO the balance by Dec. 31, deeds show.

How will the UO use the dough? Wage hikes for workers who are close to going on strike?

Cornog is no stranger to Eugene. He's a volunteer member of the external advi- sory board for the UO's Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scien- tific Impact. Since 2006, he’s bought and sold several residential properties in Lane County, deeds show.

Completed in 1911, Treetops totals 8,000 square feet on 1.5 wooded acres. The prop- erty demands attention from its owner. The UO spent thousands of dollars a year heating and repairing it. Last year, the UO replaced a failed boiler system and

related electrical equipment, and in 2021, it replaced a water main, permits show.

Cornog will face a property tax bill of about $25,000 a year. As a state agency, the UO did not pay property taxes.

In Eugene, $2 million is the upper end of the market. But on Cornog's home turf of Dallas, it's loose change. The house he and his wife own there was worth 816.2 million in 2023, according to D Magazine's list of the 100 spendiest homes in the Dallas area, The Cornogs clocked in at No. 64.

The UO spent years untangling the status of Treetops. A wealthy family donated it in 1938 on condition it be used as the home of either the UO president or the state chancellor of education. But the president has another UO-provided home — the nearby McMorran House at 2315 McMorran Street — and the chancel- lor used the place only fitfully, sparking a lawsuit from some heirs. Then, in 2015,

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the state eliminated the chancellor posi- tion, depriving the house of its nominal tenant. It took the UO until 2018 to get all the heirs to waive their claims in return for unspecified compensation, deeds show.

Cornog's had a dizzying career in high finance. He headed KKR Capstone, a unit of KKR, the New York-based behemoth that buys, manages and sells businesses worldwide in a quest for profits that beat stock market returns. KKR Capstone helps KKR pick acquisitions and run them for optimal profits.

After 20 years at KKR, Cornog quit in 2022 and now serves on boards of busi- nesses, including a products logistics company and an electric motorbike maker.

Bricks $ Mortar is a column anchored by Christian Wihtol, who worked as an editor and writer at The Register-Guard in Eugene 1990-2018, much of the time focused on real estate, economic development and business. Reach him at Christian@ EugeneWeekly.com

THE SHOOTING DEATH OF BRIAN BABB

10 years after the military veteran was killed by law enforcement, a memorial remembers him and other victims of police violence

BY CAMILLA MORTENSEN

en years ago on March 3o, 2015, Brian Babb, a 49-year-old military veteran with PTSD, was armed and feeling suicidal, according to court documents. He had fired his gun and told his therapist as much when he called her for help.

Within an hour of that call, Babb was shot and killed by a Eugene police officer.

His sister, Stephanie Babb, is holding a memorial March 29 for Brian Babb and for others who have been killed by police violence. She says, “There will be an opportunity for people to get up and share stories about their own loved ones.”

Babb, who served with the Army National Guard in Afghanistan, had come to the door of his house after the police rolled up in an armored BearCat vehicle. Police said he was carrying a rifle, something the family’s lawyers later disputed. The rifle found by his side after a police officer shot him through the head was later found to be unloaded.

The memorial, Stephanie Babb says, is not just about Brian: “This is just a tribute to the warriors who have carried this burden of somebody's demise,” and, “it just

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really brings an awareness to how fragile some situations can be, especially with veterans.”

A police investigation at the time ruled the shooting was justified, and in February 2020 a jury rejected a lawsuit the family filed in 2018. Stephanie Babb says vital foren- sic investigative information was deemed inadmissible.”

ል month later the COVID pandemic hit, and not long after that the Black Lives Matter protests lit up when George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police.

Stephanie Babb says of the civil suit, “We understood that if we'd won, it would be another affluent white family” and points to statistics showing Black and Latino people are more likely to be shot by law enforcement. She also points to the 2019 shooting deaths of Charlie Landeros and Eliborio Rodrigues by Eugene police.

А 2021 study shows 1,000 people are killed by police gunfire each year in the U.S. and that “Black Americans are disproportionately killed, as they make up 13 percent of the U.S. population yet 25 percent of those killed by police.” A 2024 study in the American Journal of Public Health found that behavioral health calls are a common interaction preceding injurious shootings by police.

‘The Eugene police auditor at the time, Mark Gissiner, pointed to flaws in the investigation into the shooting by the Interagency Deadly Force Investigations Team that he said meant the family didn’t have closure. The flaws included the investigative team leaving the bullet that killed Babb still lodged in the wall of his home, leaving Babb’s body for too long in the doorway where he was killed, not fingerprinting the 9-mm weapon later found in Babb's truck to confirm it was the same gun he shot in the house and not fingerprinting or DNA testing the rifle by Babb’s body. Finally, there was no sightline investiga-

tion to ensure it was possible that Babb raised his rifle before the officer fired.

The investigation and report were left out of the trial.

А decade later Gissiner says that he still sees the design of the model of how Eugene handles investigations into officer-involved shootings as flawed. He says, “Nothing is going to change until something really bad happens — until an unarmed teen is shot and killed holding something that an officer mistakes as a gun. Someday it will happen, and there will be cries for the whole system to implode.”

Gissiner retired in 2021 but is currently serving as Eugene's interim auditor.

In the wake of Brian Babb's death, his family campaigned to reduce police shootings and change how police respond to veterans and those іп a mental health crisis.

Ronda McGowan, Brian's other sister, says, “То say I miss my brother would be like removing my arm or legs and saying, “Ро you miss them?”

She continues, “Hell yes, I miss him. Every day of my life and they can’t take that back. Brian, we tried, brother. We tried to help others to avoid the same thing that happened to you, being shot and killed by police. We have saved lives.”

Stephanie Babb says, “We go through things every day. We have car crashes. We lose family members to illness. There are all these tragedies.” But she says when it comes to police shootings, “One thing people forget is it’s the entity that we have to rely on in our communities to uphold and enforce the law in order to keep harmony and a sense of stability and safety” And when someone is killed by the police, that sense is stolen from the families.

“Every year is a year he could have had with his family, with the community she says of the decade since his death.

Eugene police did not have comment for this story.

The 10-year memorial for Brian Babb and for others killed in police shootings is 2 pm Saturday, March 29, at Sacred Connections Community Church, 810 West 3rd Avenue.

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THE SATIRE ISSUE

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Eugene Weekly rebrands for the digital age

BY EUG TEAM

ook out, Eugene! The eug is here!

Again and again, readers in Lane County have made it clear — they want local news

by local writers and they want it on the printed page.

So in the early hours of April 1, the eug became the latest rebranding of the paper you have loved — once What's Happening, then Eugene Weekly and now, just eug.

Why? Because eug is shorter and doesn't require the oppressive hierarchy of capital letters!

And newsperts, who don't live around here, say they know what you really want, and we're listening. More digi- tal news, more Al-based reporting, and more journalism supplied by other people who also aren’t from this area using all the latest mod cons.

The eug is the answer to that.

Editor Camilla Mortensen says the fact that University of Oregon students refer to the area as “the Dirty Eug" just shows how “hip” the new, shorter name is. “eug doubles down on who we are,” she says, “while making very little sense to anyone who doesn't live here and know what the airport code is — meaning we can expand our brand anywhere!”

eug will still feature the mix of old hippies, half-retired reporters, bleeding heart liberal queers and journalists fresh out of undergrad as it always has.

One “eug” difference is the exciting new addition of a digital paywall to the eug website. For $2 a month, readers can access all the stories they once read for free.

Bentley Freeman, former reporter for Eugene Weekly, now a classified ads sales person for the eug, explains the change, saying, “We've seen such enthusiasm for paywalled news sites that it was a no-brainer to charge a nominal fee just to make the point we are eugly worth it.”

Print papers will still be free, because it's too expensive to update the red boxes.

Eugene Weekly was here for more than 40 years, but now its time to get eug!

Letters to the Editor

Expands

to port, cruz

Publisher of eug announced April 1 that the local paper would become a bit less local

BY EMMA J NELSON

y spring 2026, eug plans to launch affiliate papers in two alt-weekly news deserts: Portland, Oregon, and Santa Cruz, California. The affiliate papers, port and cruz respectively, will feature the same level of snark that eug is known for while filling

a widening gap in local coverage.

While Portland is well-covered in terms of daily and even monthly reporting, eug publisher Jody Rolnick says, “The city is in desperate need of a comprehensive weekly.” So keep an eye out for some red boxes on the streets of Port- land in the coming months, as well as copies in your local markets, as port hits the shelves.

Rolnick describes eug’s Santa Cruz-based project as “experimental,” being a print-only product of AI-generated weekly newsletter read aloud in “the fashion of a town crier."

“Santa Cruz has some digital coverage,” she says. “We hope to draw people in with the ringing of a bell and the yell of an ‘Extra extra!”

An anonymous source working with eug says the orga- nization has already begun looking at locations in Califor- nia to create cruz offices, but Rolnick refuses to comment.

Much is changing at the eug office, and you can look out for timely updates on all things new at EugeneWeekly.com (URL subject to change).

But What About the Kittens? Lately the news has been dominated by fearmongering about all the attacks Donald Trumpis supposedly making on DEI, civil servants and small businesses affected by tariffs. But no one is talking about the kittens. What about the kittens?

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Chemtrails Have the Last Word

No one has been listening to me for the last 25 years as I've. tried to warn about the danger- ous plot, run by the CIA, to turn all Americans into submissive sheep by poisoning them with chemical agents delivered by

passenger jets in the sky. It's chemtrails that gave us Donald Trump and QAnon. Its chemtrails that have caused climate change. Without chemtrails, our youth would be excelling in school instead of seeking electronic solace from the poison in their phones. I was right all along. See! See! See! Go Ducks!

Cassandra D. Visionary Springfield

Write Louder

I was recently made aware that the editor and

the publisher of Eugene Weekly “identity as female” as the libs like to say it. This revelation solved a conundrum for me — I have had trouble reading your newspaper, and it’s because I have a little difficulty with my hearing. Specifically, I have trou- ble hearing women’s voices.

I would like to request that you have real men on staff, preferably white and over 55. I hear those voices the best. Even in print.

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Eugene Introduces ‘Speed Hump Studios’ Pilot Program

New initiative reclassifies asphalt

mounds as “micro-dwellings” to

simultaneously address student housing concerns and traffic calming

BY MIRANDAH DAVIS-POWELL

Amid skyrocketing housing costs and perpetual budget constraints, Eugene urban planners unveiled an innova- tive solution designating the city’s extensive network of speed humps as tiny home studios for student renters. “At 12 square feet each, they're admittedly cozy, but they offer excellent accessibility to transportation infra- structure)’ a city of Eugene Housing manager told the eug.

City-County Drag Battle

Eugene pushes back on the Lane County Commission's drag ban

BY CAMILLA MORTENSEN

After the Lane County Commission voted 3-0 on April 1to ban drag shows in Eugene, Eugene city councilors pushed back — pointing out that the county cannot control what the city does.

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The commission is made up of five members. However, Commission Chair David Loveall has banned the two female commissioners, Heather Buch and Laurie Trieger, from voting on any issues that involve “gender and DEI,” saying it’s not something they need to “worry their pretty little heads about.”

City Councilor Mike Clark said after hearing about the vote that he objected strenuously to the county’s over- reach, “I don't think I like drag — I don't know, I have never seen it — but it’s the principle of the matter. Also, Ilike ’80s music, and I hear they lip sync to that a lot”

Commissioner Ryan Ceniga, who also sits on the Junc- tion City School Board and claims he has never seen a drag performance “but knows drag when he sees it,” said there were not enough drag shows outside of Eugene in Lane County to “make a ban count,” which is why the board chose to ban the shows in the city, “in order to really slay.”

When Eugene Mayor Kaarin Knudson also attempted to explain why the commission couldn't ban anything їп the city rather than the county, Ceniga said she “wasn’t allowed” to weigh in on DEI either while the men were talking.

Eugene's Largest Polycule

Breaks Up

THE LOCAL NON-MONOGAMY SCENE VOWS TO REBUILD

BY EVE WESTON

Inanannouncement devastating to local polyamorists and non-monogamists, the largest polycule in Eugene has announced it’s no longer a thing.

Polycule leader Sock Spirit says members were not able to reach funding goals to host weekly slam poetry nights at a local co-op. “We're disappointed that our key members, Harvest, Doorknob and Sailboat were unable to host enough community aid gigs to support this crucial part of the polycule;" Spirit says.

Eugene’s largest polycule consisted of over 100 members and was known to dominate the bumble dating app. “We were a force of nature,” says member Glove Oak. Now, the polycule has split into 25 different sub polycules and all of them hate each other. “It’s really easy to start, but harder to break away from,” says one of the sub group leaders, Tooth Flash.

The now defunct polycule was known for its large contributions to the local drag scene, with over $100,000 going directly to lobbying for more drag related content in local newspapers like the eug. Members say they hope to rebuild a new massive polycule with new members, as the sub groups are actively recruiting on bumble and Grindr.

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Mapping for MAGA

Lane County Commission votes to rename the Willamette Valley

BY BOB KEEFER

fter a contentious two-hour discus- sion during an unannounced meeting on Wednesday, the Lane County Board of County Commissioners voted 3-2 to rename the Willamette Valley the “Knight Valley.”

‘The name would honor multibillionaire Phil Knight, the richest man in Oregon.

“Donald Trump has been president for two months now, and it’s time Oregon got in step with the MAGA mandate,” Commission Chair David Loveall said as he introduced an emergency ordinance instituting the name change.

“We're putting millions of dollars in federal aid at risk if we don’t do something right away,” Loveall said. “The name ‘Willamette’ is just a Frenchified version of some old Indian village name. Well, the Indians lost, and we don't like the French. I say we honor a real American hero like Knight, not a bunch of losers"

He added the name change also applies to the Willamette River and will take place immediately. “I just want to get it done. I don't want to kick it down the road."

The ordinance applies only to portions of the Willamette Valley and the river that lie within Lane County.

Commissioners Laurie Trieger and Heather Buch voted against changing the name, citing the expense of updating county websites and reprinting stationery, and possible confusion if portions of the 150-mile- long valley have different names. In addition, they said Willamalane Park and Recreation District in Springfield would have to be renamed “Knightalane.”

“Tourists coming here have a hard enough time pronouncing ‘Willamette.” Buch said. “We don't want to make traveling here any more difficult for people coming to events like the Olympic Trials.”

As the meeting wound down, Buch introduced a separate resolution calling for the Lane County Board of County Commissioners to be renamed simply the Lane County Commission. “It’s the most redundant name in all politics)” she said. “Think of the money we could save by not having to print such a long title on all the county forms.”

The three conservative members of the board rejected Buch's measure, finding that the simplified title was somehow connected to diversity, equity and inclusivity. “Wokeism has put us all in danger,” Commissioner Ryan Ceniga said. “We should be free to enjoy as many words as we like in our official titles. And we don't want to do anything to get on the wrong side of President Trump."

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Kids/Family Baby Storytime, 9:45am &

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Babywearing & Bailando w/ Nurturely, 10-11ат, Adven- ture! Children's Museum, 490 Valley River Ctr. FREE- $7.

‘Tweens: Ecologists Club,

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Social Dance

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April 2

Art/Craft Craft Junk Drawer Wind

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Benefits

Oakshire Inspires: Friends of Trees, 5-8pm, Oakshire Pub- lic House, 207 Madison St.

Comedy

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), 7-10рт, Whiteside

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Create Painted Rocks, 4:30pm, Downtown Eugene Public Library.

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Antonio Soltero Quartet, jazz, 7-10pm, The Jazz Station, 124 W. Broadway. $10.

Jake Xerxes Fussell, folk, blues, 8pm, WOW Hall, 291 W. 8th Ave. 820-25.

Open Mic, 8:30pm, Mulligan's Pub, 2841 Willamette.

Millenial Night w/ DJ Amaya, ‘9pm-2am, Cowfish Dance

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Pants with Pockets, Ameri- cana, folk, 7-9pm, beergar- den, 777 W. 6th Ave.

Rainbow Game Night, 6-8pm, Shelton McMurphey John- son House, 303 Willamette. FREE- $5.

Western Wednesday, 6pm- 2am, Jackalope Lounge, 453 Willamette.

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Karaoke w/ KJ JudyJitsu, Meredith Adelaide: To Believe

I'm the Sun, 8pm, Art House, 492 E. 13th Ave. $20.

Cole Gallagher w/ Harrison Flynn, singer-songwriters, 9pm, Sam Bond's, 407 Blair Blvd.

Funk Night Eugene, 9pm, Luckey's Club, 933 Olive St. Noche De Rumba w/ DJ Pachanga Mix, 9pm-2am, Cowfish Dance Club, 62 W. Broadway.

Nightlife Pagan Pub Moot, 6-8pm,

Sparrow & Serpent, 271 Washington St.

Trivia w/ Brett, 6:30-8:30pm, Viking Brewing West, 520 Commercial St., unit F.

Karaoke w/ Crystal, 8pm, Happy Hours, 645 River Rd.

Outdoors/Recreation Roller Skating, 5-8pm, Farm-

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Outcdoors/Recreation

Community Yoga, 5:30- 6:30pm, Sacred Connec- tions Community Church, 810 W. 3rd Ave.

Social Dance

Argentine Tango Dancing, 7-10pm, Veterans' Memorial Building, 1626 Willamette.

Teens

Play VR Beat Saber, 4:30pm, Downtown Eugene Public Library, 100 W. 10th Ave.

April 3

Comedy

TJ Miller, 7pm, Olsen Run Comedy Club, 44 E. 7th Ave.

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Eno, 7:15pm, Art House, 492 E. 13th Ave. $15.

Gatherings

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Jake Xerxes Fussell updates the American folk tradition for modern audiences

BY WILL KENNEDY

ounger generations tend to

reject their elders’ music, but

when Jake Xerxes Fussell was

a teenager — the son of folklor- ist and photographer Fred C. Fussell and former student of blues legend Precious Bryant, who died in 2013 at the age of 71 — old-timey folk, blues and country music was a form of rebellion.

Fussell, 43, comes to Eugene, support- ing last year’s excellent When I’m Called, his fifth full-length album, and first on Fat Possum Records, a showcase for Fussell's curatorial eye for archaic American acous-

tic music drawn primarily from the Amer- ican South and viewed through Fussell’s modern lens.

In addition to his Bryant tutelage, Fussell has appeared on Prairie Home Companion, accompanied Etta Baker and toured with Wilco and The Decemberists.

“I was fortunate to be around people who played traditional music when I was a kid,” Fussell tells Eugene Weekly in a phone call, his humid Georgia drawl evident in a deep baritone speaking voice, not unlike how he sings.

“му parents were involved in that music, and they were outsiders them- selves. So I never felt the need to rebel against folk music. It was weird in and of itself. That exposure was very transforma- tive and visceral,” Fussell adds.

Traditional music, Fussell says, “felt like alternative culture to me, because in many ways it was oppositional to the mainstream. Being into folk music in some ways was rebellious.”

‘Accompanying himself on both acoustic and electric guitar — in Eugene, a percus- sionist will back him up — Fussell has a compelling songwriter’s point of view. However, he doesn't write songs and

doesn't write lyrics.

Instead, Fussell takes deep cuts and archival folk music, adds and subtracts, dropping and adding verses here and there, creating something that slots nicely along- side contemporary indie folk singer-song- writers like Fussell's contemporaries, Will Oldham and Bill Callahan.

Describing his approach to the material to bend and reshape, Fussell says, “There are plenty of traditional songs that I'l leave alone and let other people do, just because I have to be able to find my way into it”

Some of Fussel!'s melodies, he describes, could be a popular tune from the early 2oth century combined with something much older than that. "Certain melodies

that were once sea shanties later become lullabies or war songs. So things get repur- posed and upcycled,” he says.

In the When I’m Called press material, Fussell calls the music “traditional” and some “not so traditional,” where, adorned with string and melancholy horn arrange- ments, fragments of 18th-century nursery rhymes sit next to an obscure Maestro Garry Gaxiola cover “Andy” from Gaxio- 1а 1986 cassette-only cult classic album, Go'N to New York, about Andy Warhol.

"Sometimes I can be faithful to the source material that I'm drawing from. ГЇЇ play it pretty much like the version that I've heard, or a combination of versions that I've heard," he says.

Other times, he adds, “It'll be like a dramatic reinterpretation because there's something in there that I like, or I want to get at and draw out.”

“Maybe it was a narrative ballad, miss- ing a few verses, and the narrative doesn’t make sense: Why does it end on this weird verse? Or what happened to that charac- ter who showed up in the song, and then never comes back again?” Fussell says.

According to Fussell, that approach is the folk tradition in the truest sense, which he learned from his elders growing up.

“Traditional music is a wash of things that have filtered through generations of different people and different communi- ties.” The music “gets filtered through different people,” he says, adding that clas- sic folk tunes “have been tossed around. There's not one pure strand.”

Jake Xerxes Fussell performs with Ashland acoustic singer-songwriter Kathryn Kavanagh 8 рт Wednesday, April 2, at WOW Hall, 291 West 8th Avenue. Tickets are $20 advance, $25 door, all-ages.

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My husband's best friend turned into one. of my best friends. This best friend of ours recently started dating a woman. We were supportive of their relationship at first, even though he was joining as the third guy ina polyamory relationship. After a few months, their relationship went from polyamorous to monogamous. Our friend met his new girlfriend's kid very early in the relation- ship, even spending the night after only knowing this woman for a couple of months. Within six months of dating, they shared the kid's toothbrush on a vacation. They didn't say they boiled the toothbrush or took any measures to clean the toothbrush until weeks later when they were pressed on it. This is when we started to distance our- selves because we felt this behavior showed alack of respect for this child. We had a severe falling out due to this. Now they are engaged, and it raises even more concerns for us. How do we proceed? Should we stop even wanting to reconcile? Should we try to be the voice of reason about oral hygiene?

— Unhygienic Gross Humans

While I got letters about grosser things this week, yours was the most surprising letter that. came in the mail for two reasons: first, that your friend would tell you about using this child's toothbrush on vacation and, second, that you would write to me — а sex-advice col- umnist — about your friend using this child's toothbrush,

For the record, UGH, I agree that introducing a child to a new partner after two months is inadvisable — which is why Гуе always advised against it — and using someone else's tooth- brush on vacation because you forgot your ‘own is equal parts gross and unnecessary. Most hotels make disposable toothbrushes available to guests who forgot their own, UGH, and even if your friend and his girlfriend werent at a hotel that offered toothbrushes, they could've gone without brushing their teeth for a single night and gotten new toothbrushes for them- selves at the nearest pharmacy or truck stop in the morning,

"To be perfectly honest, UGH, I don't really care whether you reconcile with your friend or not, just please spare me from any and all updates

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