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The Great Resignation and the Great Awakening: What Workers Want and Need Today
April 8, 2022
Sarita Gupta, Ford Foundation, discusses the labor situation and workforce issues as the 2021-22 Wayne Morse Chair for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon.
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Landlords and Tenants: What’s Fair?
April 1, 2022
The 53% of Eugeneans who are renters know that our community is a tough place to find housing. RentCafe reported that in 2021 Eugene had the most competitive rental market in the US, with a rental vacancy rate of just 1.6%. When a unit came on the market, 30 or …
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~CANCELLED~Barriers to Latino Engagement in Lane County Governance
March 25, 2022
An on-going study from the University of Oregon documents the systemic ways in which local government could be more accessible to Latino, Latinx and Latinas who want to participate.
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Eugene City Council Candidate Forum: Ward 4
March 18, 2022
Jennifer Yeh (incumbent) and Jennifer Solomon (challenger) are vying to be Eugene’s Ward 4 city council representative. They will speak at the March 18, 2022 City Club of Eugene meeting.
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Redistricting Oregon Style
March 11, 2022
What has Oregon’s redistricting done to political boundaries? Jim Moore explains its impacts.
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Adult Mental Health, Trauma and Care
March 4, 2022
Adult mental health has suffered in the pandemic. City Club of Eugene looks at how adults are faring and how their behavioral health can be improved.
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Racism in Medicine
February 25, 2022
Why are people of color less likely to receive medical care than white people? Why do people of color have poorer health outcomes than white people? Why are people of color less likely to trust the medical system? The Tuskegee Experiments might have something to do with it. The Immortal …
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Kids’ Mental Health: How They’re Doing and How We Can Help
February 11, 2022
In fall 2021, a coalition of the nation’s leading experts in pediatric health—including the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Children’s Hospital Association—issued a joint declaration of national emergency in child and adolescent mental health. Two months later, in December 2021, the U.S. Surgeon …
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Should Nuclear Be Part of The New Energy Future?
February 4, 2022
As symptoms of climate change accelerate, providing Oregonians with carbon-free energy has become a priority for the Oregon Department of Energy. In parallel, Oregonians’ awareness of green energy options has been seeded with an increase in publicity about developments in nuclear energy, specifically small nuclear reactors. Does Oregon need nuclear …
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Collaborating on Permanent Housing Solutions
January 28, 2022
Coordination of several kinds of community resources is a recurring challenge in supporting people who need affordable, safe, and permanent housing. Sometimes special services are required to allow them to live as independently as possible. Abundant evidence shows that effective support increases stability and reduces long-range costs for all concerned. …
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Can Eugene Save the Ems?
January 21, 2022
We could lose the beloved Eugene Emeralds. The only option to keep the Emeralds in Eugene-Springfield is to build a new stadium. Otherwise, Major League Baseball will move the franchise to a new market, and the Emeralds will be gone. But hope is renewed: On December 14, the Lane County Board of …
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Lessons from the Pandemic: UO’s Impact on the Next Normal
January 14, 2022
President Michael H. Schill will provide an update on the University of Oregon, where in-person instruction and activities successfully resumed this fall. He will discuss some of the lessons learned during the pandemic and the ways the university is applying those lessons to meet its mission of teaching, research, and …
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Student Leadership in Climate Education in Eugene SD 4J
January 7, 2022
Students from Eugene School District 4J’s four high schools are leading the way on environmental stewardship. Effective environmental stewardship—like most complex civic activities—relies on knowing how the patterns and substance of everyday life contribute to good practice. Public education has always played a role in building the knowledge and skills …
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Gifts to the City 2021
December 17, 2021
At the end of every calendar year, City Club of Eugene hosts a program called “Gifts to the City.” An array of people whose community involvement gives them unique perspectives on Eugene are invited to reply to this prompt: “Imagine you have a magic wand. You can use it to …
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Measure 11 Mandatory Sentences: Repeal, Revise, or Retain
December 10, 2021
Measure 11 is a state law that sets minimum mandatory sentences for certain crimes. It was approved by ballot referendum in 1994 by a nearly two-thirds majority of Oregon voters and went into effect on April 1, 1995. It was reaffirmed by the voters in 2000, but has also undergone …
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Understanding the Local Labor Shortage
December 3, 2021
“Help wanted” signs seem to be permanently affixed to the doors of local establishments. The nightly news headlines focus on the acute lack of skilled workers for good-paying jobs in the region. Hospitals offer top dollar to tempt traveling medical workers to relocate temporarily and beef up woefully short-staffed wards …
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Hate Crimes: Facts and Fixes
November 19, 2021
No one is born with hate, but it seems more and more people are learning to hate. In the last two months, The Register-Guard, Eugene’s newspaper, had these headlines: “Eugene has spike in bias crimes and incidents;” “Eugene still leads state in reported hate crimes;” “Police arrest man suspected of …
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Finding Fairness in Wages
November 12, 2021
Mainstream and social media are full of critiques of wages. Prominent among them is the claim that wages are too low, especially in Lane County, and that the gap between what basic survival costs and what a person can earn grows ever larger. Furthermore, the distance between the incomes of …
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Seeking Solutions: The State of Our Homelessness Crisis
November 5, 2021
In August 2021, the number of homeless people in Lane County was counted as 3,115—but in that month, only 42 people were moved into housing. The local shelters could provide an additional 851 beds, but 2,222 people had nowhere to go. A circumstance in which 70% of a crisis goes …
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TrackTown Meets the World: What Oregon22 Can Mean for Eugene
October 29, 2021
There is no other place in sports quite like Hayward Field, and no city more in love with the human drama of track and field than Eugene…Every morning it seems this town awakens, puts on its running shoes and heads for the trails that wind through and past the city. …
