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Wildlife Conservation, Habitat Preservation, and Animal Welfare Across Oregon
May 5, 2023
From the Coast to the Valley, the Cascades to the High Desert ranges of Eastern Oregon, our state is blessed with extraordinary ecosystems that support an array of flora and fauna. Today, those ecosystems – and the life that rely on them – face a multitude of threats, including from …
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Lunch with Mayor Lucy Vinis
April 28, 2023
The greatest long-term threat to Eugene and the Willamette Valley is climate change. At City Club of Eugene’s April 28 meeting, Mayor Lucy Vinis will talk about climate change and discuss the City’s work, including the motions passed in July 2022 and the on-going actions those have put in motion, …
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Meet LTD’s New Manager
April 21, 2023
In the past three years the Lane Transit District found itself in the limelight for reasons that it may not have preferred. LTD suspended its plan to implement “Transit Tomorrow,” a proposal to provide more frequent service in areas with the most riders by reducing service on routes with lower …
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Measure 20-340: Renewal of Jail and Youth Services Levy
April 14, 2023
This May, voters in Lane County will choose whether to renew the existing Jail and Youth Services Levy. The measure would extend the levy at the same rate: 55 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, which is expected to generate $119 million over five years, at a cost to the …
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4J School Board Candidate Forum
April 7, 2023
On May 16, voters in the Eugene School District 4J will elect directors for four positions on the school board. Voters may vote on all positions, no matter which zones the candidates would represent. City Club of Eugene will host a candidate forum on April 7 that will be moderated …
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Science Projects That are Good Enough to Eat
March 31, 2023
In community and school-based gardens across the region, students and families are getting their hands dirty while learning to love new foods and mastering new concepts in science, agriculture, and culinary arts. In this program, three of the many local gardening projects will explain their work and how it generates …
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Candidates for Ward 7, Eugene City Council
March 24, 2023
In the fall of 2022, voters in Eugene Ward 7 recalled their City Councilor, amid concerns regarding communications with the community about decisions affecting them, including development of public transportation. The Council interviewed several candidates for the interim position, and appointed Lyndsie Leech, pending a special election this May. In …
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Oregon Innocence Project
March 17, 2023
Nothing offends our sense of justice as much as an innocent person being incarcerated—or killed—for a crime that he or she did not commit. We want the justice system to be both rigorous and equitable, yet every year we read about people being released from jail, because new evidence conclusively …
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Antisemitism and How to Fight It
March 10, 2023
Nazis marching in Charlottesville, shouting “Jews will not replace us.” The slaughter at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Kanye West and Kyrie Irving making national news for their remarks. These are only a few of the most blatant examples of antisemitism in recent years. The Anti-Defamation League reports that …
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UO Undergraduate Research: Fruit Flies, Missing Persons and Ecosystem Stewardship
March 3, 2023
Why do some neurons grow up to manage burn injuries and others to manage toes? Why is the disappearance or murder of some people reported much less accurately than others? Are there strategies for negotiating land use decisions that give appropriate weight to legitimate competing interests? These are some of …
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Congresswoman Val Hoyle: An Update to Local, Regional, and National Issues
February 24, 2023
On February 24, The City Club of Eugene will welcome newly elected Congressional Representative Val Hoyle to its program at the 5th Street Market in Downtown Eugene. In January, Representative Hoyle took her first oath of office representing Oregon’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. Congress. Though she joins the …
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No Program on Feb. 17
February 17, 2023
Because of President’s Day weekend, City Club of Eugene won’t meet on Friday, Feb. 17. See you on Feb. 24!
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How the Pandemic Made Schools Even Better
February 10, 2023
Beginning around March 2020, Covid-19 shuttered many public institutions, eventually including schools. For students in K-12, this meant shifting to online learning, from systems that relied on in-person, hands-on connections to inspire and maintain engagement. The online model was already known and used by a few students, but access to …
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They’re All Grown Up: How Millennials are Shaping the Present and Future of Business, Politics and Culture
February 3, 2023
The Millennial Generation is 75 million strong – the largest generation in American history and one that has been called “the demographic bridge to America’s more diverse future.” For years, this cohort, which includes people born between 1981-1996, seemed forever young, always in the shadow of the Boomers. Today, millennials …
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Downtown: An Update on Development
January 27, 2023
Less than 20 years ago, two large, rubble-floored pits within two blocks of each other in Eugene’s city center signaled stalled dreams of downtown development. The distinctive arched windows of the Center Court building were boarded up and the inside of the building had been destroyed by a leaking roof. …
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EWEB’s Plan for Getting Us the Electricity We Need
January 20, 2023
Eugene Water and Electric Board forecasts that electricity demand in Eugene is going to grow as people replace gasoline-powered cars and gas furnaces with electric vehicles and electric heat pumps. But where will EWEB get this additional electricity? To assess the options, EWEB is developing an integrated resource plan (IRP). …
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No Program on Jan. 13
January 13, 2023
Although City Club of Eugene won’t meet on Friday, Jan. 13, we hope you will plan to participate in Eugene-Springfield’s observances and events for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This list may not be complete but includes: Thursday, Jan. 12 – Academic, author and NAACP leader Dr. Ivory A. Toldson …
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Celebrating Eugene Weekly at 40: The Past, Present and Future of Local Journalism
January 6, 2023
“Welcome to the premiere edition of What’s Happening, Eugene and Springfield’s new weekly guide to events and entertainment…” Those were words that graced the inaugural issue of What’s Happening on Thursday, September 16, 1982. 40 years later, What’s Happening is Eugene Weekly, our region’s beloved alt-weekly, which continues to thrive …
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Gifts to the City
December 16, 2022
One of the traditions of Eugene City Club, dating back almost to its founding in the early 1990s, is the annual Gifts to the City program, offered on the last December meeting date before our winter break. At this event, community members spend three to four minutes each describing, if they …
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The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health
December 9, 2022
Ask any teacher how the kids’ mental health and behavior have been over the past few years and step back and wait for horror stories. The consensus is that things are bad and getting worse. Can anything be done to reverse the trend? The founders of the Ballmer Institute think …
