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Trump talks about how he hates "political correctness." My definition of political correctness is basic civility and respect; or just plain good manners. I was brought up in a family of several siblings who loved to debate. We would argue without getting angry. I'm always surprised when people get red in the face when someone doesn't agree with them. Lighten up, friends, and enjoy the fact that we have this forum to discuss different points of view. Where else can we do this?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A comment last week wrote that the average cost of a two bedroom apartment in Eugene is about $800.00 a month. I've heard your housing should cost about one week's income. If that is true, then $20.00 an hour would be a good base for wages. The very fact that we have billionaires while one in three children are hungry means big changes need to be made. $15.00 an hour would be a decent start. Working as a server in an upscale restaurant (see photo) is not a good example of someone working minimum wage. I've worked in the industry 20 years ago made $30.00 an hour on average. I suggest an hourly wage of $8.00 an hour for servers who are given gratuities.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I miss being able to edit after I write a post-or is there some way to do this?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I wonder what would happen if we had a cap on income? Let's say we raise the income tax to 90% for anything over three million dollars? Use the tax money to pay for two years of college, universal health care and fix our crumbling infrastructure. Oh, and we would have to close tax loopholes and off-shore banking.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Agreed- very good points. It's easy for those who make well above minimum wage to say it doesn't need to be raised. I would like to hear from those who are working at minimum wage. Is it enough? No answer? That's because they are probably working two or three jobs.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
You think he would not have the courage to say that Finicum was "heroic"? Finicum's widow might appreciate the sentiment of the letter.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yes, yes... "Biocomplexity" is the house ego publication of the ID creationist "Discovery Institute." Their publication record is pathetic. Do you know how few articles they could dredge up, or how few were not from the "editorial board." Doug Axe, and Ann Gauger are pathetic failures in competitive science, and today use their degrees as creationist camouflage. The absurd personal remark that I must " buy a lot of lottery tickets," merely shows your lack of understanding of probability. In fact, someone always eventually wins a lottery.	0.4	0	0	0	0.4	0	0
I agree. If I note a typo after having posted, there seems to be nothing I can do about it. Hey civil comment folks, show us the way........	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
One thing for sure; the form of capitalism we are practicing now is totally unsustainable and taking away the possibility for a healthy future. We currently have a capital/socialist system that privitizes the profits and socializes the costs. We, the taxpayers pay for the clean up of toxic brown field sites, land slides, degradation of water quality, wildlife habitat, etc. caused by over cutting our forests, species extinction, cattle grazing degrading public land, burning coal that causes an estimated 30,000 deaths in the USA alone, etc. We subsidize the fossil fuel industry millions of dollars a year- the wealthiest industry in the history of civilization and many other industries that make billions. Our system is fundamentally corrupt by legalized bribery of our political system. THAT is the root of our injustices and degradation of our Earth's resources and should be what we are working on to change. Go BERNIE!	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
Your proposals suggest ways to level an very uneven playing field. Since the key players (our elected representatives) are hugely dependent on campaign contributions from the wealthiest and most powerful; the very people who benefit from the current uneven playing field, it's very unlikely any significant changes in the tax code which might really benefit the bottom 20% of Americans will occur.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The "independent contractor" approach is widely used by businesses to avoid having to pay decent wages, avoid having to provide insurance or other benefits and avoid payroll tax. Just one more tool which helps the wealthy stay that way and, of course, "helps" the poor to stay that way as well.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
thanks Mike.....I'm sending you an email right now.....cheers, Gary	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
This underscores the obvious need for the Vision Zero resolution to spell-out explicitly how and what bicyclist and pedestrians need to do, to take ownership in their own safety. For BEST to only advocate for reduced speed limits, and "enforcement" is a disservice to the same people they are trying to protect. As I was traveling east on a very busy section of 18th yesterday, and witnessed what looked like a family crossing the avenue. Not one of them looked either direction prior to crossing, with the adults leading the way. Apparently they were depending solely on flashing lights at the crosswalk, as though a flashing light will somehow stop a careless driver.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tragically, bikers and pedestrians blindly trust lines painted on the street, or traffic/pedestrian lights. Until that changes, we'll probably hear more tragic news. At some point, these people need to look-up, at the traffic.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FT, we're working on adding an option to edit posts, hang in there!	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The City of Eugene's web page about Getting Around Safely already highlights the need for everyone to take responsibility for themselves and those around them: "Transportation in Eugene includes a variety of travel choices: motor vehicles, bicycles, walking, and transit. All transportation users are responsible for ensuring their safety and the safety of others around them. Obeying posted speed limits, stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks, and obeying all traffic controls, such as stop signs, prevents user conflicts and keeps the system working smoothly. To ensure the safety of all users, the City of Eugene relies on a variety of traffic safety devices and educational programs. This page links to resources and tools that all transportation system users should know and understand to help everyone get around safely." https://www.eugene-or.gov/491/Getting-Around-Safely	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yep, agreed, we thought we had good reasons for leaving it out, but we're convinced, we need to add it. Working on it!	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Maybe the progressive movement has run-its-course, and now is showing cracks.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
hello aja.........thank you for being so prompt in addressing user concerns. I realize this is a "new" site and you, quite naturally, have some glitches to address. I feel you guys are doing so and have already solved several of them. As a user, may I congratulate you on the hard work you guys are doing to continue to improve the site. regards, Gary	0.166667	0	0	0	0	0	0.166667
bill: You're repeating a very popular extreme RW talking point. In fact, liberals are the most outspoken and active supporters of our First Amendment Rights. I'm guessing you've heard of the ACLU. I can only speak for myself, but I welcome a civil discussion and/or debate with you over any of the many topics of the day. I may (and likely often will) disagree with your comments and will express that disagreement. This doesn't mean I'm trying to "shut down" any debate. I'd enjoy such conversation on this site or, should you ever be interested, in person over coffee or a beer. regards, Gary	0.166667	0	0	0.166667	0	0	0.166667
Thank you Gary! We're a small team, but we're serious about making this a good experience. We're working to have most of the requests taken care of within the next few weeks. Best, Aja	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It seems after 12 years Kitty's tyranny, the city's arrogance may be the biggest piece of her legacy. And maybe the proposed rezoning of S. Willamette and LTD's bid to extend their dreaded EmX boondoggle to 13th Avenue will both be defeated; leading to the collapse of Kitty's Envision Eugene.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
Chuck Areford — According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s website, there is 97 percent scientific consensus that global warming is indeed caused by human activity. ME — Do you believe everything the government tells you? Have you ever bothered to check the facts behind that false claim? Here they are: 1. That claim is based on a survey of abstracts of papers, therefore it is a lie to claim it is of scientists. 2. The survey found that 66% of the abstracts made no statement about cause and simply tossed out 66% of the survey hits. Honest surveys do not simply disregard 66% of the results. If they are properly included, the highest number is 34%. 3. The keywords were carefully chosen to IGNORE thousands of papers that debunk the climate scam. Examples include: we find the past was warmer than now; we find nothing unusual about today’s weather; we find the Medieval warm period was worlld wide; we find the glaciers melted faster in the past.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
Anyone can download the paper from the link at: http://www.debunkingclimate.com/97percen_%20of_scientists.html An honest survey of professional weathermen found only 25% bought the climate scam: http://www.debunkingclimate.com/amssurvey.html	0.2	0	0	0	0.2	0	0
Chuck Areford — More recently, climate change-denying scientists have been found to have deep ties to fossil fuel corporations. ME — Those are simply lies. Here is the real money situation: http://www.debunkingclimate.com/bigmoneyscaring.html The climate scare industry is a TRILLION DOLLARE INDUSTRY: http://www.debunkingclimate.com/trillion_dollar.html Chuck Areford — Historical records show no known natural processes to account for the rapidity and degree of warming. ME — Again this is a lie. The earth warmed faster and more before man emitted much CO2. Here is what one CRU/IPCC lead author wrote about the last 4 warm periods: So, in answer to the question, the warming rates for all 4 periods are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other. http://www.debunkingclimate.com/jonesinterview.html The Minoan, Roman and Medieval warm periods were all warmer than now.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
bill: this is a common RW "strawman." As a teacher of history and civics I promoted independent thought and expression....I often told students "hey, I'm not here to tell you WHAT to think.......I just want you TO THINK......Over my 28 years of teaching virtually all my colleagues had the same attitude. I consider your comment an unsubstantiated and unwarranted attack on teachers..	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Areford — The natural cycle and history of climate variation indicates that we should be in a prolonged cooling period, so current global warming is even greater than it appears. ME — The Earth quit warming 20 years according to the best records we have, RSS, UAH, USCRN & HadAT2. Only the NOAA derived records show warming since the scammers at NOAA substituted ship intake water temperatures for the more accurate ARGUS system. Chuck Areford — We cannot continue to live our lives as we are. If we really think that the Earth is in peril and we have a chance to prevent its destruction, shouldn’t we try everything and anything to do just that? ME — The first step is to quit lying about the climate and show actual evidence that man’s CO2 is the cause of the warming (that stopped 20 years ago!)	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
There's little farther away from a "free lunch" than working a minimum wage job, or more likely two of them, to try to survive. I agree with you comment and invite those who dismiss the working poor as "just a necessary part of our economic system," to work a few months at one of those jobs and try living on that wage.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I think perhaps you misunderstood that this portion of 126 is no different than a freeway and similar to a pedestrian crossing I5. The writer probably should have clarified as in Eugene Hwy 126 is again a surface street, 6th Ave.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bernie has labeled himself as a socialist and as a progressive. He is getting the votes so far of those Democrats making less than $200,000 and less than 65 years old, both male and female. The young, as others have noted, are usually more progressive. The old hippies either, through self-identification or nostalgia identify with Hillary. Many young become more conservative as they earn something to conserve; I know I did. Like Hillary, I supported Gene McCarthy in my college days. The feeling passed as I found the progressives wanted to take what I had earned later in life and give it to those who hadn't worked for it just because they 'needed' it.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
what do you expect from a guy who owned WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)..take a look at the videos of those "matches"....they look a lot like the GOP debates....	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
It wasn't on Business 126 (Main Street) at all. "Highway 126 at the Mohawk Boulevard exit" You may know that road as I-105. It's the limited access highway from Bob Straub Parkway to Valley River Center and downtown Eugene. The accident happened near the "exit" to Mohawk Blvd.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
So why do we need Vision Zero as a duplicate? Is VZ just a political ploy by BEST, or another LTD gimmick?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
As per the police scanner it is I105 That is known to osp and odot as hwy 126 freeway. The area of main street is 126 business. So this happened between Mohawk and pioneer parkway. The detour was to put vehicles onto Q street and let them pass and get back on a pioneer parkway.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TIYPS: We need Vision Zero because what is being done so far isn't sufficient and people continue to be killed or injured at alarming rates. And to date, it isn't LTD but the City of Eugene that has passed a resolution.	0.166667	0	0	0.166667	0	0	0
Yes as others have clarified, the pedestrian walked out into the freeway traffic lane (105/aka 126) near the Mohawk Exit. Tragic but questions lingering about why, why try crossing on a non pedestrian area; if he was hit in the second lane going west bound that suggests the left hand west bound lane and he would already have crossed one lane if going south or was entering the third lane (having already crossed two lanes) if going north. The technical elements may able to be reconstructed, the motivation for his choice to cross 4 lanes of freeway traffic at 0630 in the relative dark will sadly never be known.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I think the power of hearing a leader say what we want believe is often greater than the attraction of truth that contradicts one's belief.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I can see the disrespect of mocking someone who just died. What do you think of McConnell making his statement before Scalia had his time of respect?	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
It isn't a "calm pond" for people who don't make enough to live on. It's disgusting that the kind of middle-class people who write RG editorials think that everything is okay the way it is. "But there’s no correlation between high minimum wages and low poverty rates; if there were, Oregon would not be a high-poverty state." Oh come on. There is no logic at all in that statement. Oregon is a high poverty state because there aren't enough jobs, rents are too high for a lot of us, and the jobs there are don't pay enough to match the high rents and other living costs. Jobs that don't pay enough to live on are, from the point of view of an employee, useless. I hope the $15 per hour minimum wage gets on the ballot, and I will certainly vote for it.	0.166667	0	0.166667	0	0.166667	0	0
This relates to the "Vermont is next to New Hampshire" reason for Sanders's victory. It says, sure they know Sanders, but more importantly, what they know they like. He could just as well be disliked.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ok, now we're back to my point. Unfortunately, it is apparent that pedestrians (and probably bikers too) need explicit instructions to help them ensure their own safety. The feel good rhetoric on the city's website is not enough; its not working. The final draft of Vision Zero needs to be something tangible, not rhetoric. Otherwise, it seems people will continue to let themselves "be killed at alarming rates", such as walking into travel lanes. Since it is the pedestrians and bikers who are the ones being "killed", why continue resisting pro-active safety measures that bikers and pedestrians can use to help themselves stay alive? To make a real difference, I would think in terms of a since and frank resolution that applies exclusively to the vulnerable. There are all kinds of forums that apply specifically to consumers, as a self-help tool preventing them from being ripped-off. It works for consumers, why not for pedestrians and bikers?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I think the President should and will make an appointment Bill. That doesn't mean they will be confirmed. We probably look at the issues in a different way. Anyway, that will make for even more interest in the general election. I would not expect Obama to go very liberal in his appointment. If he presents a good candidate conservatives might be wise to accept them. There is no guarantee conservatives will win the Presidential election. Would you prefer Clinton or Sanders to make that choice?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I can see why you might feel that way if you are an Oregon resident. But there are many places in American where conservatism dominates and speaking out as a liberal receieves litttle impact. Just something to think about Bill, we all want to be heard and have felt ignored at some point in our life.	0.1	0	0	0	0.1	0	0
I've gone through the data on the LRAPA site and have found that Eugene's air regularly violates the current EPA standards for particulates. When the new standards are put in place, watered down though they turned out to be, we will be in violation approximately thirty to fifty days per year. Pretty much any time we have clear winter skies, we have substandard air quality. Add in the fact the LRAPA doesn't measure anywhere near the sources, and many of us are breathing toxic air as a matter of course. In my opinion, Eugene needs a ban on all outdoor burning (okay, maybe folks can use a closed barbecue) and on all wood burning fireplaces and stoves. All houses inside the city are hooked up to the grid, so everyone has a source of heat that doesn't involve fouling the air. I see this as a case of my right to swing my fist ends before it strikes your nose. These particulates cause strokes, cancer, heart attacks and brain damage. Time to stop swinging, folks.	0.3	0	0	0.2	0.1	0	0
I don't understand the 6 mutations conclusion you have. Mutations occur at a low rate for sure (1 mutation in 300 genomes for bacteria). So the chance of two mutations is 1/300 x 1/300 and the chance of 6 mutations is (1/300)^6, or 1 in 79 trillion. But the number of bacteria on earth is 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, so 6 billion bacteria will have 6 new mutations arising at any time. Given a generation time of 20 minutes, that is searching a lot of genome space every year. This doesn't even take into account that there are 6 billion billion bacteria with 2 mutations arising at the same time, and most of these will pass those mutations on to the next generation, allowing 2 additional new mutations to arise in 6 billion of those, and then 6 bacteria to have all 6 new mutations after just 3 generations. Most new genes arise from duplication and subfunctionalization (also work of U of O researchers), so no one wonders how a gene with 1000 amino acids could appear at once.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Umm... You do know Grand Cayman is nowhere near the Bahamas, right?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I think it is a little bit like the "welfare queen driving a Cadillac". People can always find the worst examples of a group, whether it is a teacher who shuts down discussion of a controversial topic, or a rich person receiving benefits meant for the needy. The question is if they take the exception as the rule or recognize that babies should not always be thrown out with the bathwater.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Perhaps we need to start enforcing our traffic laws. If we did, then in short order those careless drivers would no longer have licenses due to accumulated points.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
With all due respect DougN, Justice Scalia's opinions relating to the American Arbitration Act seem to demonstrate his pro-corporate bias and radical judicial activism. For example, he basically read into the AAA, a view that the originally narrow statute (originally written to only apply to union arbitration) now trumps most statutes passed by both state and federal legislatures intending to give people their day in court. Many knowledgable people now say his opinions on the AAA have pretty much slammed the door on employee and consumer access to the courts. In my personal view, Justice Scalia was a radical activist judge. Not saying that's a bad thing, but please, let's call a spade a spade. As nice as it sounds, he was NOT a pure Constitutional originalist. He was a conservative activist judge who acted like a "quasi-legislator," at least in some cases.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Freeway lanes are counted from left to right, so the fast/passing lanes have lower numbers than the slow/truck/right lanes. The motorist here was in the right lane. Presumably, the pedestrian entered that lane from the shoulder.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I map or diagram certainly would have been helpful.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Would that have prevented this "killing"? It was reported that the drive was not cited. Same with the accident on 13th & Willamette, or on Territorial. Neither diver was cited there either. Like Zako, you are evading my point, which is a disservice to bikers and pedestrians.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fences on both sides of the right-of-way and a concrete divider between lanes to jump. Not sure what "motivation" would be involved. Commuted this road for many years and occasionally would see people (several times groups of 2-3) doing the same thing during rush hour traffic.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
ACLU is one of the organizations that disagrees with my views and tries to kick people like out of schools and the like. I take it you disagree when people call the ones who do not agree with same-sex marriage names. Do you also disagree with professors that require you to use gender-neutral terms? Do you also insist that only one theory of the origin of man be taught? These are the type of things that drive my side nuts. and frustrate us.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The discourse may have been civil but Obama's presidency has been obscene.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
He was obviously being sarcastic.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I agree with you that sometimes it does go the other way. Here is one thing where conservatives have a harder time, watch most mainstream network TV shows or movies. Almost all of them encourage the liberal lifestyle as a good thing and people on the right as nuts.	0.3	0	0	0	0.2	0	0
True... I can't think of a modern, mainstream show where someone with conservative values was portrayed in a flattering light.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Depends on how you define conservative as well. I think commercialism(business conservatives) drives things like junk movies, shows, ect. Marketing is a lot more than advertising. You produce products that will sell to current trends. Sex sells, violence sells, it's all good old american enterprise at work. I think it's still a pretty small part of our overall economy - at least I hope it is. I do not believe all business are corrupt and many advance the general welfare for the public. Are you a Republican Bill? I'm an NAV here in Oregon.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
What are 'accumulated points'? I've heard of those in Florida and other States, but I don't know of a 'point system' in Oregon that can get you license taken away.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thank you, Jayme. You tell it exactly as it is.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
What would your comment be about a statement that the American Civil War had very little to do with slavery and more about which was supposed to be more powerful, the states or the federal government? Another one of my questions, should the theory of evolution be taught as fact when there are major questions about it? As far as being an independent thinker, consider I grew up in the Olympia and Seattle areas and ended up as a conservative.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dwight Schrute as a hard-working beet farmer?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I consider myself conservative more than Republican. I am however registered as a Republican. The Republican leadership has not always done some of the things I would like to have them to do. I am more concerned about ideology than the party.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
What's your point? -- Paul	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The obvious point is that there are four positions on the City Council which could be opposed and at this point, no one is dissatisfied enough with the Eugene City Council in three of those four wards to run against the incumbents. Either everyone is happy in those wards or they just don't care to put their efforts forward for change. We can whine all day on these threads; that will not change the makeup of the Eugene City Council. Running or supporting someone who will do something different might.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Piercy has been a disaster. While posing as a "civil" "progressive," she is a vicious, back-biting reactionary who is determined that she and her cabal "rule." To accomplish this, Piercy has made a "devil's bargain" with the City Manager that there will be no accountability for performance or integrity, as long as the staff marshal their considerable (tax-paid) resources to support her agenda. I work with "grass-roots" folks across the City, and there is general disgust with the way the self-anointed "progressives" (Zelenka and Syrett, in addition to Piercy) have betrayed ordinary working folks. It's unfortunate that there was no candidate to challenge Syrett because she is widely loathed in her own ward. Oddly, but thankfully, George Brown and Mike Clark, councilors with integrity from opposite poles of the conventional political spectrum, have on a number of occasions put together a majority that supported citizens. It's sad that many progressives seem to accept this. -- Paul	0.3	0	0	0	0.3	0.2	0
You need counseling. -- Paul	0.1	0.1	0	0	0.1	0	0
I don't like this new system at all ...you can't copy and paste? whats up with that? anyway wow...Wow… This article makes my head hurt and is filled with so many historical inaccuracies I don’t know where to start. 1. M. Reza Behnam – Is a recognized expert on middle east cultures and has written several books on this topic …Google his name and decide for yourself but as far as I am concerned his opinion stands heads and shoulders above Mr. Weinermans 2. Mr. W. goes to some trouble to claim victimhood …initially blaming Jew hating newspapers (all owned or controlled by fellow Jews) so I look up one of his examples of this bias and the headline about the teen s being shot by Israeli soldiers. I looked this story up and read it and then read the version written by al jazeera … Here are the differences ,,,the teenagers who were alleged to be engaging in deadly violence were 14 yr old girls who were shot …their victims turned out to be victims of friendly fire CONT'D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CONT'D HERE The girls were killed and their weapons were scissors and after they had been shot they were beaten with a chair and then shot again as they lay on the ground bleeding out. Sorry Mr. Weinerman you are complaining about the already heavily edited versions of what transpired …which proves Behnam’s point not yours. 3. Killing unarmed people is one of Israel’s specialties and unarmed Palestinians are their favorite targets whether they be 14 yr old unarmed girls they kill for fun or a member of Hamas. Israel is especially brave when using the full force of their military against countries who can’t fight back…sorry Mr. W there just isn’t anyway to dress that fact up.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Your dichotomy isn't valid. There is tremendous dissatisfaction with the "net" from this council and the City Manager. The problem is that Eugene's "strong city manager," ward-based elections and low-pay for councilors makes it hard to have truly democratic outcomes and accountability. If Zelenka or Syrett had to run a city-wide campaign, under a strong mayor/council structure with good pay, they'd be history. -- Paul	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
What a tired worn out excuse and rationalization for stealing land belonging to others...call them whatever you like Will they were the rightful and legal owners of the land that was taken from them by force. These "Jews" were not returning to their homeland because very few have any semitic blood in their veins and their ancestors have never been there before.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It was not just the effects of a Jewish dominated liberal crusade and boycotts against apartheid which put South Africa six feet under: The African National Congress, whose political agitation, murder and brutality was a major problem for the white dominated South African government, was a communist terrorist organization, and the communist party in South Africa was headed by Joe Slovo, an immigrant Jew and intimate of communist terrorist Nelson Mandela. Since the arrival of 'democracy', South Africa has virtually collapsed into a state of chaos: Corruption is rampant (overseen by a police force in which corruption is now the norm), utilities and other government services are virtually nonexistent. But the Jewish role in the destabilization of white South Africa goes back at least to the Boer War, which was instigated over South African minerals, and which resulted in Jewish domination of South African mineral industries. Just saying...	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It's real simple ...if you want wage rates to rise ....get rid of all of the illegal aliens currently keeping then artificially low	0.7	0.1	0	0.3	0.1	0.6	0
and who are you to tell someone how much they can earn before it becomes subject to government theft and redistribution .,..I've seen how the government spends money...no thanks	0	0	0	0	0	0.166667	0
At 15 an hour a machine will be making your lunch and it won't be free. Lefties have no understanding of simple economic principles and they prove it every time they advocate for the government artificially raising the min wage	0.3	0.1	0	0	0.2	0.2	0
Solve the illegal alien problem and you solve a big chunk of the poverty problem Lynn ...	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"All of which is to say that — while I support and admire students’ efforts to make the world a better place — I also kind of understand the right’s fear that student activism may be disparately used to muzzle conservative viewpoints." This is to me a very odd statement. It implies that conservatives are racist, sexist, extremists if you read the article. The students wanted to ban racist and sexist talk, as well as allow the colleges to not allow extreme speakers. I know some conservatives that fall into those categories. I know some so called liberals that do too.	0.3	0.1	0	0	0.2	0.2	0
$145... for a hangover cure? Seriously? For something that will go away with some scrambled eggs, a couple Excedrin, plenty of Gatorade, and a nap? Oh! Oh. This is one of those services for rich people who have nothing better to spend their money on, isn't it?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
People had their homes takes from them when the banksters caused a world financial crisis but Bundy still has his home?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
No kidding, good question! The city is full of shelf appointed mouthpieces who's best attribute is tiptoeing around any kind of common sense.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Is Trump the Alpha Male, or is he the Great White Hope of those abandoned by their country? I truly don't understand racial politics, but have the uncomfortable perception that we humans just aren't able to belong to a tribe that is very different from us. Combine the sure destruction of the lower middle class by cutthroat capitalism as it moves manufacturing to Mexico and China, and the loss of the ability of the Democratic Party to help poor whites as unions weaken, and Trump emerges as the only Republican championing them. Kind of weird that a billionaire is the one who gets how lost and afraid poor people are, who gets that Americans have awoken to the lie that business cares, that politicians represent them, that the future is anything but a bleak fight for dignity and hope. Sure, I will be voting for Bernie, but I understand Trump's appeal. Don't mistake it for something temporary. This American ship is sinking, and terror leads to grasping at any straw. Hugh Massengill	0.3	0	0.1	0	0.2	0.3	0
I understand the excuse of making this tax hike permanent. It has been reported that this tax will give the Travel Oregon’s unelected board more money to blow on a bunch of other “tourism-related projects”. This is nothing more than a sporting event for the pleasure of entertainment. Sure its a big event, but tapping the public to finance it sends the wrong message. Imposing this tax will indicate that entertainment events are more important than tangible services, such as police, fire, libraries, pools, COHOOTS, etc.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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Hey folks, this happened west of Mohawk on I-105, look on KEZI's website for the picture. In order to prevent all pedestrian vs. vehicle deaths you would have to have a cross walk or pedestrian bridge every ten feet. I see peds crossing 5th, Harlow/Hayden Bridge and Q street daily when there is a crosswalk within 100, 50 even closer to them. Recently even on Main street where the new flashing reds are I saw a woman and child cross about 100 yards east of the crossing. I worked with a Springfield traffic engineer several years ago to get the lights put up on 5th street because drivers were not stopping at the bike path crosswalk. It is disappointing for me to see folks cross at the intersection of T and 5th rather than walk the 50 feet to the cross walk and also folks not activating the lights. Walking, biking or driving we all bear some responsibility for our own safety.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hillary: 40-20 used the exact same phrase (mocking someone who was fresh in the grave is is low as it gets) in a post relating to to Finicum. Are you two the same person?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The Portland-area folks who oppose this tax would change their tune if they were in the running for an NFL team. They would tap this tax and maybe ask for it to be raised so they could build a new stadium. And they would raise their already-oppressive room taxes, which truly affect all of us because we all have to go to Portland now and then. I think they are hypocritical.	0.4	0	0.1	0	0.4	0	0
These rules are not needed. The urbanists' attack on rural folk continues. Now, LRAPA believes burn barrels should be banned because "they are magnets for burning plastics and other illegal items." Who do they think they are? That is like banning automobiles because they are magnets for speeders and drunk drivers. It is an excuse to control us. LRAPA says this proposal should not be controversial because most communities have leaf pick-up. Which rural parts of the County have leaf pick-up? What about the wood debris that needs dealt with? LRAPA needs to concentrate on working with industry to stop the real pollution that happens in our county. Backyard debris burns are not an issue. This is LRAPA exerting control where it sees a potential power grab in order to satiate those who want it to do more. What is a yard debris burn compared to a single moment of forest fire, or International Paper plant output?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
it's very sad that mr finicum died behind this action as it it does seem to have been fruitless. the bundy-ites wound up preaching to the choir and didn't turn any heads that weren't in that vein of thought already. LaVoy should have stayed home with his wife and kids and taken care of business at home. he died a martyr in only a few minds, the already converted. for the rest of us it seems just a waste of a good life. rest in peace la voy..very sad to have seen you go..	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The article doesn't imply that conservatives are racist, sexist extremists. You infer that because that's what you believe. Certainly there are factions in this and other forums that try to muzzle conservative viewpoints by calling them ___ists and trolls. The muzzling of the truth is going to stop.	0.4	0	0	0	0.4	0	0
we bear SOME responsibility for our own safety? I think we bear 90% of it. people ae just dumb about street smarts - they've been conditioned by our backwards laws. cars rule, simply cause they are bigger and will hurt you should there be a misunderstanding of who has the right away. using a crosswalk helps a heck of a lot. as a walker, I always yielded in a parking lot to a car backing out of a space. common sense , yeah? the drivers have 2 directions that other cars can come from, people walking across from the store exit to the parking lot and dumb people who step behind a car that already started pulling out. stepping off the curb pretty much right in front of a car...just a split second distraction and the care doesn't have the time to stop - this guy on 126 (HWY or business route?) by Mohawk street is just the latest victim of the poor traffic control around here. traffic control would be a relatively cheap fix for some of the problem areas. just use the crosswalk	0.4	0	0.1	0	0.5	0	0
Nice work, Civil Comments folks. Someone else has posted a few times this morning (including twice in this thread) with my username.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
One grainy, blurry video without sound has been released. Sheriff Palmer, Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, Assemblyman John Moore and others have raised questions. Palmer and Moore are veterans...and Fiore has been described as "gun-crazed", freakazoid, and words I won't repeat. Yet, there no answers - not even basic accounting of rounds fired or when. This is just not right..	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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hearing this yesterday , I was struck by the fact that the GOP and the DEMs first reaction/public response was to say we are not going to cooperate with one another. no names have been thrown out there so how does the GOP know to vote against whoever Obama presents? the goal of the GOP is to jam the process so Obama can't name the judge. (were it a republican pres, i'm guessing the DEMS would do the same thing)... it's what's beome politics as usual, that very lowest level of us VS. them...except we are one. that is the sad part...we are so divided as a nation, but we will have to come together to survive this crazy world.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The city council positions are unrewarding and the work is intimidating. To be honest, I can barely make it through the South Willamette proposal without my eyes glazing over at the density of the bureaucratese. City councilors need to be able to work through this crap, parse and understand it, and then effectively discuss it. Add in the low pay and ridiculous restrictions on communication with city employees and I understand why very few people are interested.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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I do hope the Paiutes tribe sues the heck out of the bundy-ites and the possibly the feds if any of their artifacts have been destroyed. maybe the tribe should have demanded access to the refuge to be allowed to remove the artifacts once the bundy-ites moved in. going through them so ignorantly was awful of the occupiers.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The difference between the Schumer speech and now is that Schmer had something to say about an actual nominee. That was not the same as this current obstructionism that arises without even a single nominee being named, without any single nominee to examine, and with near universal disdain for a fair hearing despite the potential for a perfect nominee to come forward. Republican's have lost some of their moral high road on this one.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Trump talks about how he hates "political correctness." My definition of political correctness is basic civility and respect; or just plain good manners. I was brought up in a family of several siblings who loved to debate. We would argue without getting angry. I'm always surprised when people get red in the face when someone doesn't agree with them. Lighten up, friends, and enjoy the fact that we have this forum to discuss different points of view. Where else can we do this?

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A comment last week wrote that the average cost of a two bedroom apartment in Eugene is about $800.00 a month. I've heard your housing should cost about one week's income. If that is true, then $20.00 an hour would be a good base for wages. The very fact that we have billionaires while one in three children are hungry means big changes need to be made. $15.00 an hour would be a decent start. Working as a server in an upscale restaurant (see photo) is not a good example of someone working minimum wage. I've worked in the industry 20 years ago made $30.00 an hour on average. I suggest an hourly wage of $8.00 an hour for servers who are given gratuities.

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I miss being able to edit after I write a post-or is there some way to do this?

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I wonder what would happen if we had a cap on income? Let's say we raise the income tax to 90% for anything over three million dollars? Use the tax money to pay for two years of college, universal health care and fix our crumbling infrastructure. Oh, and we would have to close tax loopholes and off-shore banking.

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Agreed- very good points. It's easy for those who make well above minimum wage to say it doesn't need to be raised. I would like to hear from those who are working at minimum wage. Is it enough? No answer? That's because they are probably working two or three jobs.

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You think he would not have the courage to say that Finicum was "heroic"? Finicum's widow might appreciate the sentiment of the letter.

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Yes, yes... "Biocomplexity" is the house ego publication of the ID creationist "Discovery Institute." Their publication record is pathetic. Do you know how few articles they could dredge up, or how few were not from the "editorial board." Doug Axe, and Ann Gauger are pathetic failures in competitive science, and today use their degrees as creationist camouflage. The absurd personal remark that I must " buy a lot of lottery tickets," merely shows your lack of understanding of probability. In fact, someone always eventually wins a lottery.

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I agree. If I note a typo after having posted, there seems to be nothing I can do about it. Hey civil comment folks, show us the way........

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One thing for sure; the form of capitalism we are practicing now is totally unsustainable and taking away the possibility for a healthy future. We currently have a capital/socialist system that privitizes the profits and socializes the costs. We, the taxpayers pay for the clean up of toxic brown field sites, land slides, degradation of water quality, wildlife habitat, etc. caused by over cutting our forests, species extinction, cattle grazing degrading public land, burning coal that causes an estimated 30,000 deaths in the USA alone, etc. We subsidize the fossil fuel industry millions of dollars a year- the wealthiest industry in the history of civilization and many other industries that make billions. Our system is fundamentally corrupt by legalized bribery of our political system. THAT is the root of our injustices and degradation of our Earth's resources and should be what we are working on to change. Go BERNIE!

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Your proposals suggest ways to level an very uneven playing field. Since the key players (our elected representatives) are hugely dependent on campaign contributions from the wealthiest and most powerful; the very people who benefit from the current uneven playing field, it's very unlikely any significant changes in the tax code which might really benefit the bottom 20% of Americans will occur.

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The "independent contractor" approach is widely used by businesses to avoid having to pay decent wages, avoid having to provide insurance or other benefits and avoid payroll tax. Just one more tool which helps the wealthy stay that way and, of course, "helps" the poor to stay that way as well.

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thanks Mike.....I'm sending you an email right now.....cheers, Gary

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This underscores the obvious need for the Vision Zero resolution to spell-out explicitly how and what bicyclist and pedestrians need to do, to take ownership in their own safety. For BEST to only advocate for reduced speed limits, and "enforcement" is a disservice to the same people they are trying to protect. As I was traveling east on a very busy section of 18th yesterday, and witnessed what looked like a family crossing the avenue. Not one of them looked either direction prior to crossing, with the adults leading the way. Apparently they were depending solely on flashing lights at the crosswalk, as though a flashing light will somehow stop a careless driver.

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Tragically, bikers and pedestrians blindly trust lines painted on the street, or traffic/pedestrian lights. Until that changes, we'll probably hear more tragic news. At some point, these people need to look-up, at the traffic.

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FT, we're working on adding an option to edit posts, hang in there!

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The City of Eugene's web page about Getting Around Safely already highlights the need for everyone to take responsibility for themselves and those around them: "Transportation in Eugene includes a variety of travel choices: motor vehicles, bicycles, walking, and transit. All transportation users are responsible for ensuring their safety and the safety of others around them. Obeying posted speed limits, stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks, and obeying all traffic controls, such as stop signs, prevents user conflicts and keeps the system working smoothly. To ensure the safety of all users, the City of Eugene relies on a variety of traffic safety devices and educational programs. This page links to resources and tools that all transportation system users should know and understand to help everyone get around safely." https://www.eugene-or.gov/491/Getting-Around-Safely

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Yep, agreed, we thought we had good reasons for leaving it out, but we're convinced, we need to add it. Working on it!

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Maybe the progressive movement has run-its-course, and now is showing cracks.

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hello aja.........thank you for being so prompt in addressing user concerns. I realize this is a "new" site and you, quite naturally, have some glitches to address. I feel you guys are doing so and have already solved several of them. As a user, may I congratulate you on the hard work you guys are doing to continue to improve the site. regards, Gary

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bill: You're repeating a very popular extreme RW talking point. In fact, liberals are the most outspoken and active supporters of our First Amendment Rights. I'm guessing you've heard of the ACLU. I can only speak for myself, but I welcome a civil discussion and/or debate with you over any of the many topics of the day. I may (and likely often will) disagree with your comments and will express that disagreement. This doesn't mean I'm trying to "shut down" any debate. I'd enjoy such conversation on this site or, should you ever be interested, in person over coffee or a beer. regards, Gary

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Thank you Gary! We're a small team, but we're serious about making this a good experience. We're working to have most of the requests taken care of within the next few weeks. Best, Aja

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It seems after 12 years Kitty's tyranny, the city's arrogance may be the biggest piece of her legacy. And maybe the proposed rezoning of S. Willamette and LTD's bid to extend their dreaded EmX boondoggle to 13th Avenue will both be defeated; leading to the collapse of Kitty's Envision Eugene.

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Chuck Areford — According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s website, there is 97 percent scientific consensus that global warming is indeed caused by human activity. ME — Do you believe everything the government tells you? Have you ever bothered to check the facts behind that false claim? Here they are: 1. That claim is based on a survey of abstracts of papers, therefore it is a lie to claim it is of scientists. 2. The survey found that 66% of the abstracts made no statement about cause and simply tossed out 66% of the survey hits. Honest surveys do not simply disregard 66% of the results. If they are properly included, the highest number is 34%. 3. The keywords were carefully chosen to IGNORE thousands of papers that debunk the climate scam. Examples include: we find the past was warmer than now; we find nothing unusual about today’s weather; we find the Medieval warm period was worlld wide; we find the glaciers melted faster in the past.

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Anyone can download the paper from the link at: http://www.debunkingclimate.com/97percen_%20of_scientists.html An honest survey of professional weathermen found only 25% bought the climate scam: http://www.debunkingclimate.com/amssurvey.html

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Chuck Areford — More recently, climate change-denying scientists have been found to have deep ties to fossil fuel corporations. ME — Those are simply lies. Here is the real money situation: http://www.debunkingclimate.com/bigmoneyscaring.html The climate scare industry is a TRILLION DOLLARE INDUSTRY: http://www.debunkingclimate.com/trillion_dollar.html Chuck Areford — Historical records show no known natural processes to account for the rapidity and degree of warming. ME — Again this is a lie. The earth warmed faster and more before man emitted much CO2. Here is what one CRU/IPCC lead author wrote about the last 4 warm periods: So, in answer to the question, the warming rates for all 4 periods are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other. http://www.debunkingclimate.com/jonesinterview.html The Minoan, Roman and Medieval warm periods were all warmer than now.

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bill: this is a common RW "strawman." As a teacher of history and civics I promoted independent thought and expression....I often told students "hey, I'm not here to tell you WHAT to think.......I just want you TO THINK......Over my 28 years of teaching virtually all my colleagues had the same attitude. I consider your comment an unsubstantiated and unwarranted attack on teachers..

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Chuck Areford — The natural cycle and history of climate variation indicates that we should be in a prolonged cooling period, so current global warming is even greater than it appears. ME — The Earth quit warming 20 years according to the best records we have, RSS, UAH, USCRN & HadAT2. Only the NOAA derived records show warming since the scammers at NOAA substituted ship intake water temperatures for the more accurate ARGUS system. Chuck Areford — We cannot continue to live our lives as we are. If we really think that the Earth is in peril and we have a chance to prevent its destruction, shouldn’t we try everything and anything to do just that? ME — The first step is to quit lying about the climate and show actual evidence that man’s CO2 is the cause of the warming (that stopped 20 years ago!)

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There's little farther away from a "free lunch" than working a minimum wage job, or more likely two of them, to try to survive. I agree with you comment and invite those who dismiss the working poor as "just a necessary part of our economic system," to work a few months at one of those jobs and try living on that wage.

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I think perhaps you misunderstood that this portion of 126 is no different than a freeway and similar to a pedestrian crossing I5. The writer probably should have clarified as in Eugene Hwy 126 is again a surface street, 6th Ave.

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Bernie has labeled himself as a socialist and as a progressive. He is getting the votes so far of those Democrats making less than $200,000 and less than 65 years old, both male and female. The young, as others have noted, are usually more progressive. The old hippies either, through self-identification or nostalgia identify with Hillary. Many young become more conservative as they earn something to conserve; I know I did. Like Hillary, I supported Gene McCarthy in my college days. The feeling passed as I found the progressives wanted to take what I had earned later in life and give it to those who hadn't worked for it just because they 'needed' it.

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what do you expect from a guy who owned WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)..take a look at the videos of those "matches"....they look a lot like the GOP debates....

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It wasn't on Business 126 (Main Street) at all. "Highway 126 at the Mohawk Boulevard exit" You may know that road as I-105. It's the limited access highway from Bob Straub Parkway to Valley River Center and downtown Eugene. The accident happened near the "exit" to Mohawk Blvd.

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So why do we need Vision Zero as a duplicate? Is VZ just a political ploy by BEST, or another LTD gimmick?

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As per the police scanner it is I105 That is known to osp and odot as hwy 126 freeway. The area of main street is 126 business. So this happened between Mohawk and pioneer parkway. The detour was to put vehicles onto Q street and let them pass and get back on a pioneer parkway.

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TIYPS: We need Vision Zero because what is being done so far isn't sufficient and people continue to be killed or injured at alarming rates. And to date, it isn't LTD but the City of Eugene that has passed a resolution.

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Yes as others have clarified, the pedestrian walked out into the freeway traffic lane (105/aka 126) near the Mohawk Exit. Tragic but questions lingering about why, why try crossing on a non pedestrian area; if he was hit in the second lane going west bound that suggests the left hand west bound lane and he would already have crossed one lane if going south or was entering the third lane (having already crossed two lanes) if going north. The technical elements may able to be reconstructed, the motivation for his choice to cross 4 lanes of freeway traffic at 0630 in the relative dark will sadly never be known.

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I think the power of hearing a leader say what we want believe is often greater than the attraction of truth that contradicts one's belief.

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I can see the disrespect of mocking someone who just died. What do you think of McConnell making his statement before Scalia had his time of respect?

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It isn't a "calm pond" for people who don't make enough to live on. It's disgusting that the kind of middle-class people who write RG editorials think that everything is okay the way it is. "But there’s no correlation between high minimum wages and low poverty rates; if there were, Oregon would not be a high-poverty state." Oh come on. There is no logic at all in that statement. Oregon is a high poverty state because there aren't enough jobs, rents are too high for a lot of us, and the jobs there are don't pay enough to match the high rents and other living costs. Jobs that don't pay enough to live on are, from the point of view of an employee, useless. I hope the $15 per hour minimum wage gets on the ballot, and I will certainly vote for it.

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This relates to the "Vermont is next to New Hampshire" reason for Sanders's victory. It says, sure they know Sanders, but more importantly, what they know they like. He could just as well be disliked.

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Ok, now we're back to my point. Unfortunately, it is apparent that pedestrians (and probably bikers too) need explicit instructions to help them ensure their own safety. The feel good rhetoric on the city's website is not enough; its not working. The final draft of Vision Zero needs to be something tangible, not rhetoric. Otherwise, it seems people will continue to let themselves "be killed at alarming rates", such as walking into travel lanes. Since it is the pedestrians and bikers who are the ones being "killed", why continue resisting pro-active safety measures that bikers and pedestrians can use to help themselves stay alive? To make a real difference, I would think in terms of a since and frank resolution that applies exclusively to the vulnerable. There are all kinds of forums that apply specifically to consumers, as a self-help tool preventing them from being ripped-off. It works for consumers, why not for pedestrians and bikers?

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I think the President should and will make an appointment Bill. That doesn't mean they will be confirmed. We probably look at the issues in a different way. Anyway, that will make for even more interest in the general election. I would not expect Obama to go very liberal in his appointment. If he presents a good candidate conservatives might be wise to accept them. There is no guarantee conservatives will win the Presidential election. Would you prefer Clinton or Sanders to make that choice?

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I can see why you might feel that way if you are an Oregon resident. But there are many places in American where conservatism dominates and speaking out as a liberal receieves litttle impact. Just something to think about Bill, we all want to be heard and have felt ignored at some point in our life.

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I've gone through the data on the LRAPA site and have found that Eugene's air regularly violates the current EPA standards for particulates. When the new standards are put in place, watered down though they turned out to be, we will be in violation approximately thirty to fifty days per year. Pretty much any time we have clear winter skies, we have substandard air quality. Add in the fact the LRAPA doesn't measure anywhere near the sources, and many of us are breathing toxic air as a matter of course. In my opinion, Eugene needs a ban on all outdoor burning (okay, maybe folks can use a closed barbecue) and on all wood burning fireplaces and stoves. All houses inside the city are hooked up to the grid, so everyone has a source of heat that doesn't involve fouling the air. I see this as a case of my right to swing my fist ends before it strikes your nose. These particulates cause strokes, cancer, heart attacks and brain damage. Time to stop swinging, folks.

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I don't understand the 6 mutations conclusion you have. Mutations occur at a low rate for sure (1 mutation in 300 genomes for bacteria). So the chance of two mutations is 1/300 x 1/300 and the chance of 6 mutations is (1/300)^6, or 1 in 79 trillion. But the number of bacteria on earth is 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, so 6 billion bacteria will have 6 new mutations arising at any time. Given a generation time of 20 minutes, that is searching a lot of genome space every year. This doesn't even take into account that there are 6 billion billion bacteria with 2 mutations arising at the same time, and most of these will pass those mutations on to the next generation, allowing 2 additional new mutations to arise in 6 billion of those, and then 6 bacteria to have all 6 new mutations after just 3 generations. Most new genes arise from duplication and subfunctionalization (also work of U of O researchers), so no one wonders how a gene with 1000 amino acids could appear at once.

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Umm... You do know Grand Cayman is nowhere near the Bahamas, right?

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I think it is a little bit like the "welfare queen driving a Cadillac". People can always find the worst examples of a group, whether it is a teacher who shuts down discussion of a controversial topic, or a rich person receiving benefits meant for the needy. The question is if they take the exception as the rule or recognize that babies should not always be thrown out with the bathwater.

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Perhaps we need to start enforcing our traffic laws. If we did, then in short order those careless drivers would no longer have licenses due to accumulated points.

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With all due respect DougN, Justice Scalia's opinions relating to the American Arbitration Act seem to demonstrate his pro-corporate bias and radical judicial activism. For example, he basically read into the AAA, a view that the originally narrow statute (originally written to only apply to union arbitration) now trumps most statutes passed by both state and federal legislatures intending to give people their day in court. Many knowledgable people now say his opinions on the AAA have pretty much slammed the door on employee and consumer access to the courts. In my personal view, Justice Scalia was a radical activist judge. Not saying that's a bad thing, but please, let's call a spade a spade. As nice as it sounds, he was NOT a pure Constitutional originalist. He was a conservative activist judge who acted like a "quasi-legislator," at least in some cases.

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Freeway lanes are counted from left to right, so the fast/passing lanes have lower numbers than the slow/truck/right lanes. The motorist here was in the right lane. Presumably, the pedestrian entered that lane from the shoulder.

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Would that have prevented this "killing"? It was reported that the drive was not cited. Same with the accident on 13th & Willamette, or on Territorial. Neither diver was cited there either. Like Zako, you are evading my point, which is a disservice to bikers and pedestrians.

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Fences on both sides of the right-of-way and a concrete divider between lanes to jump. Not sure what "motivation" would be involved. Commuted this road for many years and occasionally would see people (several times groups of 2-3) doing the same thing during rush hour traffic.

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ACLU is one of the organizations that disagrees with my views and tries to kick people like out of schools and the like. I take it you disagree when people call the ones who do not agree with same-sex marriage names. Do you also disagree with professors that require you to use gender-neutral terms? Do you also insist that only one theory of the origin of man be taught? These are the type of things that drive my side nuts. and frustrate us.

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I agree with you that sometimes it does go the other way. Here is one thing where conservatives have a harder time, watch most mainstream network TV shows or movies. Almost all of them encourage the liberal lifestyle as a good thing and people on the right as nuts.

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True... I can't think of a modern, mainstream show where someone with conservative values was portrayed in a flattering light.

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Depends on how you define conservative as well. I think commercialism(business conservatives) drives things like junk movies, shows, ect. Marketing is a lot more than advertising. You produce products that will sell to current trends. Sex sells, violence sells, it's all good old american enterprise at work. I think it's still a pretty small part of our overall economy - at least I hope it is. I do not believe all business are corrupt and many advance the general welfare for the public. Are you a Republican Bill? I'm an NAV here in Oregon.

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What are 'accumulated points'? I've heard of those in Florida and other States, but I don't know of a 'point system' in Oregon that can get you license taken away.

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Thank you, Jayme. You tell it exactly as it is.

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What would your comment be about a statement that the American Civil War had very little to do with slavery and more about which was supposed to be more powerful, the states or the federal government? Another one of my questions, should the theory of evolution be taught as fact when there are major questions about it? As far as being an independent thinker, consider I grew up in the Olympia and Seattle areas and ended up as a conservative.

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Dwight Schrute as a hard-working beet farmer?

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I consider myself conservative more than Republican. I am however registered as a Republican. The Republican leadership has not always done some of the things I would like to have them to do. I am more concerned about ideology than the party.

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What's your point? -- Paul

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The obvious point is that there are four positions on the City Council which could be opposed and at this point, no one is dissatisfied enough with the Eugene City Council in three of those four wards to run against the incumbents. Either everyone is happy in those wards or they just don't care to put their efforts forward for change. We can whine all day on these threads; that will not change the makeup of the Eugene City Council. Running or supporting someone who will do something different might.

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Piercy has been a disaster. While posing as a "civil" "progressive," she is a vicious, back-biting reactionary who is determined that she and her cabal "rule." To accomplish this, Piercy has made a "devil's bargain" with the City Manager that there will be no accountability for performance or integrity, as long as the staff marshal their considerable (tax-paid) resources to support her agenda. I work with "grass-roots" folks across the City, and there is general disgust with the way the self-anointed "progressives" (Zelenka and Syrett, in addition to Piercy) have betrayed ordinary working folks. It's unfortunate that there was no candidate to challenge Syrett because she is widely loathed in her own ward. Oddly, but thankfully, George Brown and Mike Clark, councilors with integrity from opposite poles of the conventional political spectrum, have on a number of occasions put together a majority that supported citizens. It's sad that many progressives seem to accept this. -- Paul

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You need counseling. -- Paul

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I don't like this new system at all ...you can't copy and paste? whats up with that? anyway wow...Wow… This article makes my head hurt and is filled with so many historical inaccuracies I don’t know where to start. 1. M. Reza Behnam – Is a recognized expert on middle east cultures and has written several books on this topic …Google his name and decide for yourself but as far as I am concerned his opinion stands heads and shoulders above Mr. Weinermans 2. Mr. W. goes to some trouble to claim victimhood …initially blaming Jew hating newspapers (all owned or controlled by fellow Jews) so I look up one of his examples of this bias and the headline about the teen s being shot by Israeli soldiers. I looked this story up and read it and then read the version written by al jazeera … Here are the differences ,,,the teenagers who were alleged to be engaging in deadly violence were 14 yr old girls who were shot …their victims turned out to be victims of friendly fire CONT'D

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CONT'D HERE The girls were killed and their weapons were scissors and after they had been shot they were beaten with a chair and then shot again as they lay on the ground bleeding out. Sorry Mr. Weinerman you are complaining about the already heavily edited versions of what transpired …which proves Behnam’s point not yours. 3. Killing unarmed people is one of Israel’s specialties and unarmed Palestinians are their favorite targets whether they be 14 yr old unarmed girls they kill for fun or a member of Hamas. Israel is especially brave when using the full force of their military against countries who can’t fight back…sorry Mr. W there just isn’t anyway to dress that fact up.

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Your dichotomy isn't valid. There is tremendous dissatisfaction with the "net" from this council and the City Manager. The problem is that Eugene's "strong city manager," ward-based elections and low-pay for councilors makes it hard to have truly democratic outcomes and accountability. If Zelenka or Syrett had to run a city-wide campaign, under a strong mayor/council structure with good pay, they'd be history. -- Paul

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What a tired worn out excuse and rationalization for stealing land belonging to others...call them whatever you like Will they were the rightful and legal owners of the land that was taken from them by force. These "Jews" were not returning to their homeland because very few have any semitic blood in their veins and their ancestors have never been there before.

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It was not just the effects of a Jewish dominated liberal crusade and boycotts against apartheid which put South Africa six feet under: The African National Congress, whose political agitation, murder and brutality was a major problem for the white dominated South African government, was a communist terrorist organization, and the communist party in South Africa was headed by Joe Slovo, an immigrant Jew and intimate of communist terrorist Nelson Mandela. Since the arrival of 'democracy', South Africa has virtually collapsed into a state of chaos: Corruption is rampant (overseen by a police force in which corruption is now the norm), utilities and other government services are virtually nonexistent. But the Jewish role in the destabilization of white South Africa goes back at least to the Boer War, which was instigated over South African minerals, and which resulted in Jewish domination of South African mineral industries. Just saying...

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It's real simple ...if you want wage rates to rise ....get rid of all of the illegal aliens currently keeping then artificially low

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and who are you to tell someone how much they can earn before it becomes subject to government theft and redistribution .,..I've seen how the government spends money...no thanks

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At 15 an hour a machine will be making your lunch and it won't be free. Lefties have no understanding of simple economic principles and they prove it every time they advocate for the government artificially raising the min wage

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Solve the illegal alien problem and you solve a big chunk of the poverty problem Lynn ...

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"All of which is to say that — while I support and admire students’ efforts to make the world a better place — I also kind of understand the right’s fear that student activism may be disparately used to muzzle conservative viewpoints." This is to me a very odd statement. It implies that conservatives are racist, sexist, extremists if you read the article. The students wanted to ban racist and sexist talk, as well as allow the colleges to not allow extreme speakers. I know some conservatives that fall into those categories. I know some so called liberals that do too.

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$145... for a hangover cure? Seriously? For something that will go away with some scrambled eggs, a couple Excedrin, plenty of Gatorade, and a nap? Oh! Oh. This is one of those services for rich people who have nothing better to spend their money on, isn't it?

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People had their homes takes from them when the banksters caused a world financial crisis but Bundy still has his home?

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No kidding, good question! The city is full of shelf appointed mouthpieces who's best attribute is tiptoeing around any kind of common sense.

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Is Trump the Alpha Male, or is he the Great White Hope of those abandoned by their country? I truly don't understand racial politics, but have the uncomfortable perception that we humans just aren't able to belong to a tribe that is very different from us. Combine the sure destruction of the lower middle class by cutthroat capitalism as it moves manufacturing to Mexico and China, and the loss of the ability of the Democratic Party to help poor whites as unions weaken, and Trump emerges as the only Republican championing them. Kind of weird that a billionaire is the one who gets how lost and afraid poor people are, who gets that Americans have awoken to the lie that business cares, that politicians represent them, that the future is anything but a bleak fight for dignity and hope. Sure, I will be voting for Bernie, but I understand Trump's appeal. Don't mistake it for something temporary. This American ship is sinking, and terror leads to grasping at any straw. Hugh Massengill

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I understand the excuse of making this tax hike permanent. It has been reported that this tax will give the Travel Oregon’s unelected board more money to blow on a bunch of other “tourism-related projects”. This is nothing more than a sporting event for the pleasure of entertainment. Sure its a big event, but tapping the public to finance it sends the wrong message. Imposing this tax will indicate that entertainment events are more important than tangible services, such as police, fire, libraries, pools, COHOOTS, etc.

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We need to take back our parks from these lawless, militant, occupiers. Roadblocks should be set up to prevent them from escaping and they should be surrounded by cops hiding behind trees or street posts, waiting to shoot them in the head if they make a wrong move...

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Hey folks, this happened west of Mohawk on I-105, look on KEZI's website for the picture. In order to prevent all pedestrian vs. vehicle deaths you would have to have a cross walk or pedestrian bridge every ten feet. I see peds crossing 5th, Harlow/Hayden Bridge and Q street daily when there is a crosswalk within 100, 50 even closer to them. Recently even on Main street where the new flashing reds are I saw a woman and child cross about 100 yards east of the crossing. I worked with a Springfield traffic engineer several years ago to get the lights put up on 5th street because drivers were not stopping at the bike path crosswalk. It is disappointing for me to see folks cross at the intersection of T and 5th rather than walk the 50 feet to the cross walk and also folks not activating the lights. Walking, biking or driving we all bear some responsibility for our own safety.

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Hillary: 40-20 used the exact same phrase (mocking someone who was fresh in the grave is is low as it gets) in a post relating to to Finicum. Are you two the same person?

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The Portland-area folks who oppose this tax would change their tune if they were in the running for an NFL team. They would tap this tax and maybe ask for it to be raised so they could build a new stadium. And they would raise their already-oppressive room taxes, which truly affect all of us because we all have to go to Portland now and then. I think they are hypocritical.

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These rules are not needed. The urbanists' attack on rural folk continues. Now, LRAPA believes burn barrels should be banned because "they are magnets for burning plastics and other illegal items." Who do they think they are? That is like banning automobiles because they are magnets for speeders and drunk drivers. It is an excuse to control us. LRAPA says this proposal should not be controversial because most communities have leaf pick-up. Which rural parts of the County have leaf pick-up? What about the wood debris that needs dealt with? LRAPA needs to concentrate on working with industry to stop the real pollution that happens in our county. Backyard debris burns are not an issue. This is LRAPA exerting control where it sees a potential power grab in order to satiate those who want it to do more. What is a yard debris burn compared to a single moment of forest fire, or International Paper plant output?

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it's very sad that mr finicum died behind this action as it it does seem to have been fruitless. the bundy-ites wound up preaching to the choir and didn't turn any heads that weren't in that vein of thought already. LaVoy should have stayed home with his wife and kids and taken care of business at home. he died a martyr in only a few minds, the already converted. for the rest of us it seems just a waste of a good life. rest in peace la voy..very sad to have seen you go..

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The article doesn't imply that conservatives are racist, sexist extremists. You infer that because that's what you believe. Certainly there are factions in this and other forums that try to muzzle conservative viewpoints by calling them ___ists and trolls. The muzzling of the truth is going to stop.

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we bear SOME responsibility for our own safety? I think we bear 90% of it. people ae just dumb about street smarts - they've been conditioned by our backwards laws. cars rule, simply cause they are bigger and will hurt you should there be a misunderstanding of who has the right away. using a crosswalk helps a heck of a lot. as a walker, I always yielded in a parking lot to a car backing out of a space. common sense , yeah? the drivers have 2 directions that other cars can come from, people walking across from the store exit to the parking lot and dumb people who step behind a car that already started pulling out. stepping off the curb pretty much right in front of a car...just a split second distraction and the care doesn't have the time to stop - this guy on 126 (HWY or business route?) by Mohawk street is just the latest victim of the poor traffic control around here. traffic control would be a relatively cheap fix for some of the problem areas. just use the crosswalk

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Nice work, Civil Comments folks. Someone else has posted a few times this morning (including twice in this thread) with my username.

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One grainy, blurry video without sound has been released. Sheriff Palmer, Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, Assemblyman John Moore and others have raised questions. Palmer and Moore are veterans...and Fiore has been described as "gun-crazed", freakazoid, and words I won't repeat. Yet, there no answers - not even basic accounting of rounds fired or when. This is just not right..

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Looks like someone has found a way to game the system.

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hearing this yesterday , I was struck by the fact that the GOP and the DEMs first reaction/public response was to say we are not going to cooperate with one another. no names have been thrown out there so how does the GOP know to vote against whoever Obama presents? the goal of the GOP is to jam the process so Obama can't name the judge. (were it a republican pres, i'm guessing the DEMS would do the same thing)... it's what's beome politics as usual, that very lowest level of us VS. them...except we are one. that is the sad part...we are so divided as a nation, but we will have to come together to survive this crazy world.

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The city council positions are unrewarding and the work is intimidating. To be honest, I can barely make it through the South Willamette proposal without my eyes glazing over at the density of the bureaucratese. City councilors need to be able to work through this crap, parse and understand it, and then effectively discuss it. Add in the low pay and ridiculous restrictions on communication with city employees and I understand why very few people are interested.

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clearly if the GOP blocks Obama's nominations for judge (plural because it will be at least 2..) the court may be gridlocked with the even number of justices while deciding some important cases. let's hope that someone is acceptable for both sides, is sworn in and keep this USA democracy machine rolling.

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I will delete the comments that are not the real Xavier's. Civil doesn't work very well. It spontaneously gave me Xavier's account.

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I do hope the Paiutes tribe sues the heck out of the bundy-ites and the possibly the feds if any of their artifacts have been destroyed. maybe the tribe should have demanded access to the refuge to be allowed to remove the artifacts once the bundy-ites moved in. going through them so ignorantly was awful of the occupiers.

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The difference between the Schumer speech and now is that Schmer had something to say about an actual nominee. That was not the same as this current obstructionism that arises without even a single nominee being named, without any single nominee to examine, and with near universal disdain for a fair hearing despite the potential for a perfect nominee to come forward. Republican's have lost some of their moral high road on this one.

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