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I would hate to burst their bubble. But, EMS or firefighters aren't always the first responder. My wife and I were first responders to a recent traffic accident and treated uncontrolled bleeding and shock until EMS arrived.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
If it's Trump against Clinton, I'll vote for whoever the Green candidate is, as I have for many years. If there is no Green candidate on the Oregon ballot, I won't vote for president.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poetic license?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Why oh why would you sell this site when land is so scarce in and around the "U". Years ago both the university and peacehealth (sacred heart) were interested in Northwest Christian College, to the northwest, but NWC was not open to selling, sacred heart expansion ended up in Springfield. The university has no place to go, except north across the river. The only campus attached land, that currently exists, would be the neighborhood from Franklin south to 19th. Selling the Romania parcel doesn't make any sense unless the university has no plan to expand.....EVER!	0	0	0	0	0	0.166667	0
Wiles was completely on-point when she said, "It's code for racial and economic segregation." One might assume that as school enrollment, course offerings, and test scores decrease, appropriate funding would be provided to resolve such issues; however, this is not reality. As schools suffer, funding dwindles, leading to further issues. Most low-income families from the NEHS area do not have the time, money, or resources to transfer their children to other schools, thus are limited in their options. Families with such resources however do, and they choose their schools accordingly. This ongoing cycle of economically secure families transferring their children away from NEHS leaves only families suffering from socio-economic disparity. We see the same cycle all over the US. It's social-choice segregation, which, in turn, leaves schools like NEHS underfunded, understaffed, with a greater population of lower-income student. School choice only goes to benefit families that can afford it.	0.166667	0	0	0	0	0	0
We'll see if Hillary Clinton can get elected without the left, because we won't vote for her. If the general election is close, she has a problem. The Sanders voters will take a walk.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kathleen Parker is a conservative Republican, given the highest grade for conservative punditry in 2012...	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oregon school funding is set up so that funding goes where the students are. It only goes when the student actually goes. Failure to do that would mean that the schools with fewer students like North would have more teachers per student than schools like South. That is inherently unfair. Microsoft hires the best it can from whatever school. If that means they hire fewer from Duck U than Stanford, that means Stanford is producing a better computer person--maybe because you are there teaching Computer Science. Would you prohibit a person from taking Computer Science at Stanford instead of at Duck U because that will mean Duck U gets less money? That appears to be your rationale for denying North students the ability to transfer to what they perceive to be a better school for them. If that results in a disparity based on income, so does Microsoft's selection processes for hiring computer people.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Our community and more specifically the district board needs to address the anti-North sentiment that prevails in our city. I believe the first step to this is removing the "school choice" option. I am an AVID Tutor for the school district and have been for three years. Over these years, I have worked consistently at 6 schools across the district. I love my job and my students. However, I don't love going on defense every time I mention my alma-mater of North Eugene. Students usually respond with "Ew." or "Gross." or "North's ghetto.", while staff members will ask me in a concerned, worried manor "...and how was it?" Why is this? Why is the only IB-world school in Eugene with two student-ran businesses "ghetto" or worrysome? This is a funding issue, a class issue, and a race issue. And it's circular.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kathleen Parker is a conservative Republican, given highest grade for conservative punditry in 2012...	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
When you cut funding for a school, programs are cut, and teachers wither. Education is at stake. So, people go to schools that offer what they want. As Mr. Cranor said below, these are usually students with better-off parents, leaving the poor kids behind. Meanwhile, Marist (just across the river) offers North-region students sports/academic scholarships, increasing transfer #'s. The district notices a decline in enrollment and cuts more. The same process continues. It doesn't end. And it won't. Unless 4J halts the ability for some schools (South Eugene) to flourish while others (North Eugene) scramble to handle cuts in staff and budget. Clair Wiles put it perfectly. School choice is segregation, absolutely. Ms. Dragt is absolutely justified in her concerns for a shutdown, because it won't change without action. I urge the school board to eliminate school choice and to focus on providing a truly equitable experience for students at all 4 high schools.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
You didn't get it did you. Do you need for me to explain it to you? I'd be happy to.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
Additionally, I want to thank the Register-Guard for bringing light to this issue. Often times I think NEHS is ignored. On the first day of my senior year, the front page of the paper gasped and awed at a class at South Eugene HS who "squeezed" 37 students into one class. Meanwhile, I sat in my AP Calculus class of 52 students (which I ended up dropping because it was so big) chuckling, but also feeling invisible.	0.2	0	0	0	0.2	0	0
I've got an idea to solve all the state's funding woes: A special tax on PERS benefits! After all, that's where all of our money goes, into the pockets of career parasites who feel entitled to outrageous returns on their pension funds regardless of our ability to pay. Oregon Democrats can never get enough of other people's money. At least this particular bill extorts people who don't live in our state, whereas the usual tactic is to squeeze small business owners until they bleed. I personally don't want the track championships in Eugene. It will inconvenience me personally, and for the sole purpose of enriching special interests and appealing to the vanity of public officials. It's garbage.	0.2	0	0	0	0.2	0	0
That's cool. I'd like to see a commitment to principles of logical argumentation.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"...does the dog actually provide value commensurate with that valuation." Yes it does. If the dog alerts its' handler to an IED and keeps just one soldier from losing his legs or worse, that dog is worth whatever it cost to train.	0.166667	0	0	0.166667	0	0	0
Does Eugene actually Need a City Hall? If it's just a fancy City Council Room and will "eliminate any office space for city councilors, and the provision that the council meeting space be segregated from the mayor’s and city manager’s spaces. ", what is its purpose? I don't have a dog in this fight, having moved to Springfield, but this particular unfunded boondoggle is just so enticing to watch that I can't turn away! Any proposal or concept is just nonsense until an actual Bid type document gets prepared, so that sort of information is useless. If the seismic issue is all-important (that's what the citizenry were told, at least when everyone moved out and the building was demolished) you could put the City Council Chamber underground in a concrete bunker and be done with it.	0.2	0	0	0	0.2	0	0
This is discrimination against sexes. Wrong and I don't think I will buy from them. I would rather go.to a store because a male or females could sell me what I want.	0.2	0	0	0	0	0.2	0
Oregon funding works as you say, but the Eugene Education Fund (EEF) does not. It goes where the people who donate it want it to go. The more affluent the families there are in any given school, the more funding they have to spend on programs and additional FTE (teachers). This leads to an embarrassment of riches at some schools with other schools getting by on the 10% hold back in grants that all schools can apply for. Individual parents can do for the schools their children attend what we as a community are not allowed to do for our schools as a whole, namely pass funding levies to pay for additional programs and teachers. Affluent schools get 90%, everyone else splits the 10%. Does this sound like equity?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Of course, when I took Debate in High School, you were actually graded on what you did and how well. I only got a "B". Today, as I understand it, there are multiple Valedictorians and multiple Salutatorians because of grade inflation. We only had one of each. The Lake Woebegone principle that "Everyone is Above Average" was not part of our reality. It was called 'earning' your grade as I recall it. I don't recall my teacher's name, but I do recall some of her rather pointed critiques of my performances. A "commitment to principles of logical argumentation" is illusory unless it is rigorously tested and evaluated, in my opinion. I'm not sure that is still possible in Oregon public education.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
You seem to imply that what Trump will do has no real relation to what he says; and further, that you know what he will do even though he has not said it. Am I followin' ya?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Are there any Eugene/Springfield corporate headquarters of comparable size in Lane County or have they all moved elsewhere?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ate there this afternoon. Simply astounding. We shared four dishes, a Pfriem, and the smoothie. Cannot recommend the food here enough. –The Norvells	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
What about the three state assembly representatives from Nevada that gave speeches on the steps of the Federal Court house steps. What about Walden, who supported this gang hate extremists holding their own constitution or willing to shoot BLM employees or others? I remember in 2014 at the Bundy Ranch when these out of control militia domestic extremist had a sniper in the ready to shoot law enforcement. These extremists hate group militias attached to the Sovereign Citizen movement have killed more law enforcement that any other group in the United States. They dangerous criminals, and anyone supporting them is enabling them.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Calling Clinton a criminal doesn't fly? Not only does it fly it's quite possibly the understatement of the year. How quickly we forget just how many lives have been ruined and left in this woman's wake and just how many scandals she has been at the forefront of throughout the years. Scandals like,....: 1) Travelgate 2) File gate 3) Whitewater 4) Vince Fosters timely suicide 5) the Cattle Futures miracle that netted Hillary over 100k 6) Selling influence to the highest bidders, mostly Chinese. 7) 100's of instances of perjury 8) Soliciting donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation while SOS 9) The people who have conveniently wound up dead just prior to testifying in front of courts or congress about the Clinton Crime Family 10) The mail server scandal and her serial mendacity about the nature of those emails Books have been written on the Clinton Crime family ...there is nothing premature about calling her a criminal only in prosecuting and jailing her	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Trump is an evil man and best represents the nature of his evil flock.	0.565789	0.013158	0.013158	0	0.578947	0.026316	0
Travel Oregon: I need $250k a year for five years to help pay for the remodel on my house. It will benefit the track meet in that I'll list it for rent during the party.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Diverse? Sure Trump is the "epitome of diversity". No one is immune to his "diverse", daily discharges of hate, race baiting, misogyny, and brazen serial lying, "...Mexicans are rapists...". A pathetic windbag who tramples (trumples?) civility and compassion with obscene, disgusting comments. He'll go down hard and blame it on someone else.	0.6875	0.05	0.1	0	0.6	0.4625	0.2
The city is probably trying to concoct new property tax levy's, measures, and fees to indirectly fund the $40 million project. (Recall they are funding this with money from the general fund.) These deceitful funding scheme will make housing more expensive, while the city lies, and says they are trying to make housing more "affordable". The project should be funded solely by a voter approved bond measure. If the voters say no, the project must wait for better economic times, if there is such a thing in Eugene.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
dear Justin thanks for last night. had a great time. friday night? unhhh - gotta wash my hair Friday night...so that's out........, but i'll call you and we'll get together again real soon.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
dang - that's good solid logic. i'm using it when doing taxes. I've already got food written off as a medical expense.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I do love that "grab onto it like a dog on an ankle" metaphor .. it could be the be the U's new mission statement in squeezing money from the student population...	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
my bet's on sweetheart deal...it is the U after all...	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
“One of the primary reasons we formed the union was to improve the job security and pay for non-tenure track faculty,” he said. I'm always amazed at these articles. The goal of the school, where students = revenue, is to align the school to perpetually, effectively and efficiently deliver sustained student success performance improvement outcomes, to each and every student, resulting in individual student adaptive learning of key relevant skills, that empower students to obtain and keep relevant jobs long term to contribute to society. I don't see much strategic focus here, specific to student success outcomes. Quite simply, when students = revenue (which they do) and the students pay for an education with the goal of sustained employment upon graduation and that doesn't happen, students cease to enroll. Then revenues decrease. Reactively and strategically focusing on subsets of the real problem is what traditional education does best Tenure does not equal student success outcomes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
the democrats are destroying this state.But the PIELE CONVENTION? The University of Oregon environmental conference here,at the law school every year? THEY IGNORE all of Lane county GOVT. cutting down hundreds of trees here, more than a 100 years old! Lane county govt, and Eugene govt. DESTROYS HUNDREDS OF OLD,, ANCIENT TREES, EVEN RECENTLY.--AND NO ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP SAYS OR DOES ANYTHING! THERE IN NO TREE CONSERVATION HERE! THIS is the least environmental county and city,in all Oregon,and the state of Oregon destroys trees, wild life, wild animals and destroys them all, and lies about it. go on,check the records and facts! people who see this.and live here,know this is true. I dare you to check out the factual history. And natives here, know it's true. they'be seen Oregon destroyed, all their lives, more and more. this county, city, and state hates the environment, they are killing it.	0.2	0	0	0.1	0.1	0.2	0
I don't know what this guy looks like, so yesterday as I walked around town I stopped everybody that looked like a 20-year-old Canadian and asked for an autograph and a selfie with him. I will post all the photos to my Snapgram account once I get them developed, because he must be in there.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Where is the free ad?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oregon and Lane county and Eugene govts. have always been like this.To put it politely, the whole local govt. are crooks and thieves and dictators. I advise, if you want a real environmental area, move out of Oregon.This town has always been run by crooks and thieves. It's like a dictatorship-little-town in the Deep South, run by a tiny handful of families,and crooks at the top. Take some disreputable low-class totalitarian jerks, crooks, from the Deep South, that is Lane County,Eugene, and the state of Oregon. People who were natives, or lived here forever, have seen this. The reason you don't MEET NATIVES of Oregon, is, most of them MOVED AWAY.I know some, quite a few, who hate it, and will never come back.	0.4	0	0	0	0.4	0.2	0
LMAO	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
First off blabber, I want to thank you for your concerns regarding the well being of our once beautiful, peaceful State. Your passion is powerful and you sound like you're twisted up in knots over the true loss of our State to greed, pollution and special interests. I've spent the last ....wait......since '88 trying to bring awareness to locals and all most were concerned about was buying and selling and the worship of the almighty $$$. The only way I could find piece of mind for an outright impossible situation is/was to withdraw. Take care of yourself. I care. l2g	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"trumples ..." That's a good word. :) "V.t., To walk all over someone in a scathing and highly unfair manner ..."	0.4	0	0	0	0.4	0	0
Huh, democrats voting to RAISE taxes? Whoda thunk it?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BTW, Lew Williams had that dealership built, not Joe Romania, Lew should get the name credit.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
There still are moderates out there, you just never hear of them, thanks to the tea party. If he's the old school pre-Regan type, it might be worth it to read into his policy plans.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It's true, I have had to look for customer reviews on EVERYTHING lately, every service and product,every where. If I don't do this, I get cheated, Ive been cheated, lately, any how by local computer repairmen, Microsoft games from Amazon.com, plumbers, bug-exterminators who charged me a $1,000 termite service, and later a different co. told me it was CARPENTER ANTS, NOT TERMITES! I even found doctors in Peace Health who were so bad,I had to leave them, & I found out by online client reviews, the doctor was SADISTIC and enjoyed seeing patients in pain! That doctor almost destroyed my health and life. no, you can't sue them you have to REVIEW THEM online.No courts will help patients who sue bad doctors. I talked to many clients who got horrible treatment, or neglect at Peace Health clinics, hospital, & surgeries, ect. I was amazed. You CAN REVIEW DOCTORS , SPECIALISTS NOW,online, I recommend it. There are very good specialists who have client reviews.-Let the buyer beware!	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3--BAD FOOD and bad cooking in Oregon, or Lane county, is more likely.the main restaurant food is pizza and beer, gourmet beer, pizza, beer, beer, beer!!. I have yet to find a really good Chinese restaurant, Kowloon's food is always delivered COLD. anyone know some really good Chinese, Japanese, let me know.Even old fashioned Cantonese. I love Chinese and Japanese, I miss it.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Careful what you say about your next President.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fuggidabaud this Bundy bunch. The most bizarre thing I've ever seen is the republican lineup for President. They bash Trump in one breath, then pledge absolute obedience to him in the next! Can you say, congratulations President Hillary, Vice President Bernie, and the whole new Democratic Congress? Oh, of course you can.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Travel Oregon:" A nine-member board appointed by the Governor, the Oregon Tourism Commission governs the Travel Oregon staff and programs; the agency is funded by a 1% statewide transient lodging tax." Anyone want to bet it becomes a 10+ member board? That being said, Ms Brown, I am uniquely qualified to participate as Board Member #10. I enjoy travel and adventure and can spend money faster than anyone, as long as I don't have to waste my time at a desk actually earning it. I can start immediately, just give me a state car and a credit card.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Funny that Republicans have passed bills out of the House, only to have them stalled by Democrats in the Senate. Who are the obstructionists?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"Adding an educational component for schools" Once again the liberal Nannyists want to have the schools responsible for more social engineering. The schools are already told that they must be parents 24/7 when parents don't. They are supposed to provide food healthier than parents provide, they are supposed to monitor students emotional and physical well-being, they are supposed to develop and provide culturally sensitive classes which meet liberal views of how the world should be as opposed to how it is, they are day care centers in fact; they are required to do everything except provide education that will result in the 'students' being able to succeed after graduation either at a university or in gainful employment. That cannot be done by today's 'educators', even though it was accomplished by many 'teachers' within my lifetime. Little wonder, when they are required to spend so much of their time doing everything else.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Does the name "Phil Knight" ring a bell?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
One of the more interesting aspects here is that this was a real review, by real customers, not a fake review by a competitor or the owners themselves and friends and family. Like Blabber in that comment, I depend on reviews but – in case this is useful to anybody else – I also try to watch for the obvious fakes and read through them for hints. I always distrust reviews when there are just a few, because it's so easy for owners to fake a few. I discount favorable reviews when they the same wording as the marketing of the business, because I suspect those are owners, friends, family of owners, not objective customers. And I read through the bad ones, when I'm really interested, to weed out the cases in which – just as one example – they hated the restaurant but they will say, in the review, that they were kicked out because they were drunk. Sometimes the authors of what I call "revenge reviews" are so angry they make it obvious.	0.2	0	0	0	0.1	0	0
Listen to a supporter of the nanny state and listen to the distortion of reality to support government control. Tobacco causes 7000 deaths? Statements like that have become popular and some people fall for them. Fact is we all die (at least I am told, haven't proven it personally yet although I seem to age like everybody else). So they get 7000 deaths just be lumping together everyone who dies from certain classes of diseases. Of course those folks would pass on even if they never used tobacco, but the controllers do not want you to think about that. The cost argument. Also nonsense. Folks that have never smoked also experience medical expenses related to illness especially toward the end. There is no evidence that smokers ultimately cost more than non-smokers. I do not promote smoking. I have never smoked (except behind the incinerator once in 1962 with the boys). But government control of American's liberty and manipulation of their thinking is repulsive.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
Both parties take turns obstructing the other depending on who is in the minority. That way when they can't meet their campaign promises, they can blame the other party. Been working in this country for a couple of centuries and in England for even more centuries. Allegedly representative political systems around the world from Japan to Europe follow the same method because it keeps the parties in power.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
In some ways I like this situation. It is funny to see funny to see the establishment part of the party have problems with a candidate after having to hold my nose and vote for a candidate the last few cycles.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Implementing this new law would also assuage the compulsive need to regulate other people's behaviors that is so pervasive in liberal circles. Commissioners could roll out the old "I have the moral right to tell you what to do because I'm paying for it excuse".	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
So, a bully is worse than an incompetent and irresponsible pathological liar or a guy who's economic sensibility wouldn't fit a thimble?	0.5	0.015625	0.03125	0	0.453125	0	0
The criminal justice establishment just has nothing else to do so of course they create indictments for things that transpired and were largely forgotten several years ago. The indictments, trials, and incarceration will cost us millions, but so many of us support this bizarre system of locking people in cages for years. Much more humane and civilized to just give them a good whipping and let them get back to being productive citizens rather than pet monkeys kept at great cost in cages.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
But Gary, are you saying the right to free speech allows me to call you "crooked"?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Taxing a business owner to the point where it no longer makes sense to go to work is not what I would call "support". Bernie doesn't understand entrepreneurship. He hardly understands work. By his own admission he was a lazy and disinterested student. He demonstrated little skill in making a buck - or interest in earning money - when he was young, in spite of having a child to support. He fled to the security of a federal job at the recommendation of a friend who, apparently, knew him pretty well. Bernie's a beltline insider, and his package of Change II is just more of the same: government greed, rising taxes, and biting the hands that feed them.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
You're culling based on perceived motivations or intent. While that may help you gain a more neutral impression, I believe a few bad reviews carry more weight that a larger number of good reviews. It would make an interesting and easily designed study. The larger issue is what is considered opinion or a claim of fact, the later of which can lead to libel if unsubstantiated. In this case "crooked" appears to be an opinion. But we just debated whether calling Clinton "a criminal" is a statement of fact. Criminal and crooked seem pretty close. So the question is: How far can online comments go? Though many people think words have distinct boundaries (falsely calling them "definitions"), they can be more fuzzy around the edges. If we can call a business owner crooked, can we call them a pervert under the guise of opinion. The problem as you note is not just buyer beware, but also reviewer beware.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
This is a much-needed article, it could be longer. As a 20+ year freelancer, one would think that things such as getting paid would get better with more people doing contract work. But I am having problems getting paid and thisand it's created a huge amount of stress and financial difficulties for me. I even worked for 3 months with a nonprofit organization that is supposed to help small businesses and contractors yet they didn't pay me one cent! When I applied for small claims court settlement they put two lawyers on me and asked for a jury trial. I would have loved to have continued this but I could't afford the time and stress. So now I am the average freelancer is owed $5000 or more (according to Freelancers Union). I am a female and I have also experienced organizations assuming women are volunteers. At the very least there is a huge need for trainings on how to work with freelancers in non profits and for profits. Some legal recourse would be great too.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It seems you want to protect drivers from facing a serious infraction. Assuming you are a motorist, why would you defend motorists who speed in a school zone while talking on a phone from a judgement of "felony"? Assuming the driver was on a phone and speeding, what would be your judgement as to the punishment?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
This is exactly the type of situation Prozanski's law would address. If that child was maimed for life (but did not die, which would trigger a felony charge), should this motorist get off with just a ticket for whatever traffic infraction he incurred?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A vote for Trump is a vote for diversity.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I think all he was saying is he hopes the boy lives. We jump to assumptions so fast these days.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It was an opinion, just like yours. Get over it already.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I want to protect drivers from becoming prisoners, felons, unemployed, unemployable, etc for a very common lapse in judgement. I have no problem with levying huge fines for driving infractions. In this case the boy will be compensated via insurance and the driver should face a substantial fine. Why wait until an accident occurs? Making driving infractions felonies, as are murder and armed robbery, is IMO beyond corrective and becomes punative revenge. Also, if an injury or death is the trigger for determining felony violation, then add that to vehicle vs vehicle on illegal or unsafe passing, left turns, rear-ending, failing to yield..... I am all for DUI and driving while suspended being upgraded to felony - before it results in death.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
There is a Chinese restaurant next to Staples along West 11th in Eugene. I and my Chinese born friends find it to be quite good.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
No you aren't.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
So you'd have someone drive for you?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
At this point I wonder if the Bruins will even make the NIT. If they don't beat the Beavers, they will probably finish under .500.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
According to our friends on the left it is.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"Implementing this new law would also assuage the compulsive need to regulate other people’s behaviors that is so pervasive in liberal circles". What? You mean that bastion of progressive wunderkinds, the Lane County Commissioners?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Great. These lawsuits should never happen. In my experience and research, most of these SLAPP lawsuits are filed by business owners who are actually crooked, or at least crooked at the level of say, Trump University. Now I don't have anythng experience with this Dancing Deer Mountain, but based on my other experiences and impressions, if I had to geuss, based only on the article I read during breakfast this morning, I would geuss that they probably are crooked. I certainly will never recommend anyone to go near them. Similarly, my experience and second hand knowledge suggests that lawyers who file these SLAPP suits are sleazy. I won't be recommending "Watkinson Laird Rubenstein Baldwin & Burgess" to anybody. Again, this is not based on any personal interaction with any of them, just my general impressions. So businesses, if you think someone has impuned you unfairly, you are like every other business. Don't make it worse by filing one of these lawsuits.	0.2	0	0	0	0.2	0	0
Food cart pavilion! Upscale eateries in small environments.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thanks for illuminating the flaw in this proposed legislation. It should make no difference what mode of transportation the youngster was using when he was struck by the car; he was merely crossing the street. The combination of speeding in a school zone and distracted driving should raise this to the Class A misdemeanor of reckless driving, which is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $6,250 fine.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Now this is an interesting thought - incorporate the historically valuable Romania (Williams) structure into a new Architectural and Allied Arts School center - a nice marriage of "form and function" (Louis Sullivan) . Such symbiosis at this location would give new visual prominence to those well-regarded programs - anyone entering Eugene on Franklin Boulevard from the east would would be treated to a demonstration of what the School does. As far as this particular property being "surplus", a bit of intelligent, flexible planning could certainly switch that status to another 4.7 acres in the University's ample land inventory.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Not quite as dangerous. 32,000 people per year on average nationally are killed in drunk driving situations compared to 4,000 people per year due to distracted driving but your point is still valid. Fines have been increased and yet I still see people blatantly texting and talking on their phones. Perhaps loss of a drivers license for 6 months would cure some of these folks who find it more important to be on their phones and putting peoples lives at risk rather than paying attention and driving.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fact: The statement "Oregon doesn't take drunk driving seriously" is not a fact. It is your opinion. Are you not a proponent of truth in labeling? One of every two Americans will be maimed by a motorist during their lifetimes? Ridiculous. Why spout such nonsense? Traffic fatalities in Oregon in 2013 -- your cherry-picked reference point -- totaled 313, the lowest in half a century. Context is king. Try it sometime.	0.4	0	0	0.1	0.5	0	0
Tina, I share your concerns. My younger son went to this school years ago. Distracted drivers can do more harm than good. Praying for a speedy recovery for this boy, peace for his parents, and praying for the driver and his family.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
B.Carfree is anti-car absolutely and completely. Any statement of alleged fact by him regarding automobiles should be ignored absolutely and completely.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
That's an interesting point. "Crooked" does imply dishonesty and, likely, criminality. Unless you're a GOP candidate for the Presidency, it's stretching the limits of "free speech". I'm not sure of the history of case law on such comments. You are correct in questioning it. Thanks, Gary	0.2	0	0	0	0.3	0.1	0
JP, good points, thanks. And you are right, I do try to weed out, or discount, reviews that are not actually objective reviews by users or customers. But of course that involves guessing. I'd also guess that the extreme negative reviews have more impact. I'd like to see the study you suggest. And I'm completely with you on the fuzzy lines problems. Although few reviewers are really thinking of legal liabilities, the kind of facts that can be validated are useful to readers, even if they carry the extra legal problems.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Um, folks, let's not overlook the detail that Lananna and Co. wanted $3 million from the general fund to pay for security costs at this month's world indoor meet in Portland and the Olympic Trials at Hayward in July. That "ask" wasn't for nebulous, out-of-state tourism dollars, it was for real tax money from Oregonians. It was shot down, but it does expose the magnitude of the cojones TrackTown seems to believe it's swaying these days. Little wonder that the four senators with Lane County constituencies, each of whom could have scuttled the lodging tax increase by himself, chose instead to duck for cover by voting yes.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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If you read the opinion, it is obvious that the Oregon Supreme Court really, really, wanted to come out with the result that opinions in reviews like this one were protected by the 1st Amendment and also adopt the 9th Circuit's three step method of analysis for such cases. In order to do that, they really had to force language that looks suspiciously like facts which could be disproved (crooked) into the 'opinion' category. It also happens at the US Supreme Court level. Chief Justice Roberts upheld Obamacare a couple of years ago by holding that the 'Penalty' which will be imposed by the IRS on someone for not signing up for health insurance isn't really a 'penalty' as the law calls it, but a 'tax'. If it had been a 'penalty', it couldn't have been enforced under existing Constitutional law. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." Alice in Wonderland, indeed.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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In my opinion, both NE and West Coast IPAs are delicious and differ with their own unique aroma, flavors, mouthfeel, etc. That's why I think you can't really compare, for example, Sticky Hands or Pfriem IPA to Julius or Heady (or Juice Box in this context). They're all superb IPAs but are cut from a different cloth. It's like comparing Chicago deep-dish pizza to NY-style pizza.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Improving one's health and cutting healthcare costs are great reasons why one should not smoke but shouldn't be legitimate arguments for the government increasing age of consent to 21. At some point, as a society I think we need to accept that adults will harm themselves with recreational drugs. Arguing that we all pay a price in health care costs isn't convincing to me, because as as country, we've already decided to subsidize bad decision making. That ship has sailed. When our taxes go to Medicare , we pay for diabetes and high blood pressure that are caused or exacerbated by lack of exercise or proper diet. Skin cancer from sun exposure, broken bones from dangerous activities and on and on. Unless we're prepared to just let the government regulate every aspect of our lives so that nothing bad ever happens to us, I think we need to push back on these kinds of ridiculous ideas by politicians.	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0
The Senate is currently composed of 54 Republicans, 44 Democrats, and 2 independents, both of whom caucus with the Democrats. The current leader is Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Both houses of congress are majority Republican.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I agree with the ruling. The review was an expression of the reviewer's opinion. Like most customers, I give limited consideration to individual reviews. Opinions vary, so the collective feedback from many reviews is far more reliable. However, I would never, ever consider patronizing any establishment that sues its customers for civilly expressing their views, positive or not. I urge everyone to steer clear of this business.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Find it hard to buy the 7,000 people a year die stance as these numbers are most likely represented by people who started smoking when it was still advertised on television. The effect of changes in laws and attitudes will not be fully apparent for several more decades.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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Mr. Trump seems to know little about the real world beyond finance, and that seems dangerous. He seems to say the same thing over and over. Is ability to make money the only criteria for the office of leader of the free world? People like Trump's attitude because it seems to mirror their own, and everyone can find something to be angry about. I wonder how those same people will feel when a President Trump shouts 'Losers!' at anyone who has less money than he does, or receives any kind of public assistance (like Social Security or Medicare), and begins cutting all those programs.	0.5	0	0	0	0.5	0	0
Tom: The relationship is not that difficult. TrackTown, Nike, and Phil and his buddies want to host the 2021 IAAF World Championships. The meet, which runs 9 days, will cost over 100 million dollars, or more than $10 million per day. TrackTown doesn't have the money, and Nike, Phil and his Nike-rich buddies want help underwriting the event. They decided the State taxpayers should be the source and worked with their "lap dog" legislators to find a way to get $25 million dollars from the State. Surprise, surprise, surprise.......after a few weeks of maneuvering, they're going to get the money. There are smiles in Nikeville, and that's what counts. Who gives a damn about taxpayers so long as Phil is happy and will contribute to the "right" election campaigns. For the unintiated, this is called "democracy in action."	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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I would hate to burst their bubble. But, EMS or firefighters aren't always the first responder. My wife and I were first responders to a recent traffic accident and treated uncontrolled bleeding and shock until EMS arrived.

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If it's Trump against Clinton, I'll vote for whoever the Green candidate is, as I have for many years. If there is no Green candidate on the Oregon ballot, I won't vote for president.

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Why oh why would you sell this site when land is so scarce in and around the "U". Years ago both the university and peacehealth (sacred heart) were interested in Northwest Christian College, to the northwest, but NWC was not open to selling, sacred heart expansion ended up in Springfield. The university has no place to go, except north across the river. The only campus attached land, that currently exists, would be the neighborhood from Franklin south to 19th. Selling the Romania parcel doesn't make any sense unless the university has no plan to expand.....EVER!

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Wiles was completely on-point when she said, "It's code for racial and economic segregation." One might assume that as school enrollment, course offerings, and test scores decrease, appropriate funding would be provided to resolve such issues; however, this is not reality. As schools suffer, funding dwindles, leading to further issues. Most low-income families from the NEHS area do not have the time, money, or resources to transfer their children to other schools, thus are limited in their options. Families with such resources however do, and they choose their schools accordingly. This ongoing cycle of economically secure families transferring their children away from NEHS leaves only families suffering from socio-economic disparity. We see the same cycle all over the US. It's social-choice segregation, which, in turn, leaves schools like NEHS underfunded, understaffed, with a greater population of lower-income student. School choice only goes to benefit families that can afford it.

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We'll see if Hillary Clinton can get elected without the left, because we won't vote for her. If the general election is close, she has a problem. The Sanders voters will take a walk.

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Kathleen Parker is a conservative Republican, given the highest grade for conservative punditry in 2012...

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Oregon school funding is set up so that funding goes where the students are. It only goes when the student actually goes. Failure to do that would mean that the schools with fewer students like North would have more teachers per student than schools like South. That is inherently unfair. Microsoft hires the best it can from whatever school. If that means they hire fewer from Duck U than Stanford, that means Stanford is producing a better computer person--maybe because you are there teaching Computer Science. Would you prohibit a person from taking Computer Science at Stanford instead of at Duck U because that will mean Duck U gets less money? That appears to be your rationale for denying North students the ability to transfer to what they perceive to be a better school for them. If that results in a disparity based on income, so does Microsoft's selection processes for hiring computer people.

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Our community and more specifically the district board needs to address the anti-North sentiment that prevails in our city. I believe the first step to this is removing the "school choice" option. I am an AVID Tutor for the school district and have been for three years. Over these years, I have worked consistently at 6 schools across the district. I love my job and my students. However, I don't love going on defense every time I mention my alma-mater of North Eugene. Students usually respond with "Ew." or "Gross." or "North's ghetto.", while staff members will ask me in a concerned, worried manor "...and how was it?" Why is this? Why is the only IB-world school in Eugene with two student-ran businesses "ghetto" or worrysome? This is a funding issue, a class issue, and a race issue. And it's circular.

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Kathleen Parker is a conservative Republican, given highest grade for conservative punditry in 2012...

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When you cut funding for a school, programs are cut, and teachers wither. Education is at stake. So, people go to schools that offer what they want. As Mr. Cranor said below, these are usually students with better-off parents, leaving the poor kids behind. Meanwhile, Marist (just across the river) offers North-region students sports/academic scholarships, increasing transfer #'s. The district notices a decline in enrollment and cuts more. The same process continues. It doesn't end. And it won't. Unless 4J halts the ability for some schools (South Eugene) to flourish while others (North Eugene) scramble to handle cuts in staff and budget. Clair Wiles put it perfectly. School choice is segregation, absolutely. Ms. Dragt is absolutely justified in her concerns for a shutdown, because it won't change without action. I urge the school board to eliminate school choice and to focus on providing a truly equitable experience for students at all 4 high schools.

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You didn't get it did you. Do you need for me to explain it to you? I'd be happy to.

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Additionally, I want to thank the Register-Guard for bringing light to this issue. Often times I think NEHS is ignored. On the first day of my senior year, the front page of the paper gasped and awed at a class at South Eugene HS who "squeezed" 37 students into one class. Meanwhile, I sat in my AP Calculus class of 52 students (which I ended up dropping because it was so big) chuckling, but also feeling invisible.

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I've got an idea to solve all the state's funding woes: A special tax on PERS benefits! After all, that's where all of our money goes, into the pockets of career parasites who feel entitled to outrageous returns on their pension funds regardless of our ability to pay. Oregon Democrats can never get enough of other people's money. At least this particular bill extorts people who don't live in our state, whereas the usual tactic is to squeeze small business owners until they bleed. I personally don't want the track championships in Eugene. It will inconvenience me personally, and for the sole purpose of enriching special interests and appealing to the vanity of public officials. It's garbage.

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That's cool. I'd like to see a commitment to principles of logical argumentation.

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"...does the dog actually provide value commensurate with that valuation." Yes it does. If the dog alerts its' handler to an IED and keeps just one soldier from losing his legs or worse, that dog is worth whatever it cost to train.

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Does Eugene actually Need a City Hall? If it's just a fancy City Council Room and will "eliminate any office space for city councilors, and the provision that the council meeting space be segregated from the mayor’s and city manager’s spaces. ", what is its purpose? I don't have a dog in this fight, having moved to Springfield, but this particular unfunded boondoggle is just so enticing to watch that I can't turn away! Any proposal or concept is just nonsense until an actual Bid type document gets prepared, so that sort of information is useless. If the seismic issue is all-important (that's what the citizenry were told, at least when everyone moved out and the building was demolished) you could put the City Council Chamber underground in a concrete bunker and be done with it.

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This is discrimination against sexes. Wrong and I don't think I will buy from them. I would rather go.to a store because a male or females could sell me what I want.

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Oregon funding works as you say, but the Eugene Education Fund (EEF) does not. It goes where the people who donate it want it to go. The more affluent the families there are in any given school, the more funding they have to spend on programs and additional FTE (teachers). This leads to an embarrassment of riches at some schools with other schools getting by on the 10% hold back in grants that all schools can apply for. Individual parents can do for the schools their children attend what we as a community are not allowed to do for our schools as a whole, namely pass funding levies to pay for additional programs and teachers. Affluent schools get 90%, everyone else splits the 10%. Does this sound like equity?

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Of course, when I took Debate in High School, you were actually graded on what you did and how well. I only got a "B". Today, as I understand it, there are multiple Valedictorians and multiple Salutatorians because of grade inflation. We only had one of each. The Lake Woebegone principle that "Everyone is Above Average" was not part of our reality. It was called 'earning' your grade as I recall it. I don't recall my teacher's name, but I do recall some of her rather pointed critiques of my performances. A "commitment to principles of logical argumentation" is illusory unless it is rigorously tested and evaluated, in my opinion. I'm not sure that is still possible in Oregon public education.

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You seem to imply that what Trump will do has no real relation to what he says; and further, that you know what he will do even though he has not said it. Am I followin' ya?

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Are there any Eugene/Springfield corporate headquarters of comparable size in Lane County or have they all moved elsewhere?

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Ate there this afternoon. Simply astounding. We shared four dishes, a Pfriem, and the smoothie. Cannot recommend the food here enough. –The Norvells

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What about the three state assembly representatives from Nevada that gave speeches on the steps of the Federal Court house steps. What about Walden, who supported this gang hate extremists holding their own constitution or willing to shoot BLM employees or others? I remember in 2014 at the Bundy Ranch when these out of control militia domestic extremist had a sniper in the ready to shoot law enforcement. These extremists hate group militias attached to the Sovereign Citizen movement have killed more law enforcement that any other group in the United States. They dangerous criminals, and anyone supporting them is enabling them.

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Calling Clinton a criminal doesn't fly? Not only does it fly it's quite possibly the understatement of the year. How quickly we forget just how many lives have been ruined and left in this woman's wake and just how many scandals she has been at the forefront of throughout the years. Scandals like,....: 1) Travelgate 2) File gate 3) Whitewater 4) Vince Fosters timely suicide 5) the Cattle Futures miracle that netted Hillary over 100k 6) Selling influence to the highest bidders, mostly Chinese. 7) 100's of instances of perjury 8) Soliciting donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation while SOS 9) The people who have conveniently wound up dead just prior to testifying in front of courts or congress about the Clinton Crime Family 10) The mail server scandal and her serial mendacity about the nature of those emails Books have been written on the Clinton Crime family ...there is nothing premature about calling her a criminal only in prosecuting and jailing her

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Trump is an evil man and best represents the nature of his evil flock.

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Travel Oregon: I need $250k a year for five years to help pay for the remodel on my house. It will benefit the track meet in that I'll list it for rent during the party.

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Diverse? Sure Trump is the "epitome of diversity". No one is immune to his "diverse", daily discharges of hate, race baiting, misogyny, and brazen serial lying, "...Mexicans are rapists...". A pathetic windbag who tramples (trumples?) civility and compassion with obscene, disgusting comments. He'll go down hard and blame it on someone else.

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The city is probably trying to concoct new property tax levy's, measures, and fees to indirectly fund the $40 million project. (Recall they are funding this with money from the general fund.) These deceitful funding scheme will make housing more expensive, while the city lies, and says they are trying to make housing more "affordable". The project should be funded solely by a voter approved bond measure. If the voters say no, the project must wait for better economic times, if there is such a thing in Eugene.

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dear Justin thanks for last night. had a great time. friday night? unhhh - gotta wash my hair Friday night...so that's out........, but i'll call you and we'll get together again real soon.

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dang - that's good solid logic. i'm using it when doing taxes. I've already got food written off as a medical expense.

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I do love that "grab onto it like a dog on an ankle" metaphor .. it could be the be the U's new mission statement in squeezing money from the student population...

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my bet's on sweetheart deal...it is the U after all...

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“One of the primary reasons we formed the union was to improve the job security and pay for non-tenure track faculty,” he said. I'm always amazed at these articles. The goal of the school, where students = revenue, is to align the school to perpetually, effectively and efficiently deliver sustained student success performance improvement outcomes, to each and every student, resulting in individual student adaptive learning of key relevant skills, that empower students to obtain and keep relevant jobs long term to contribute to society. I don't see much strategic focus here, specific to student success outcomes. Quite simply, when students = revenue (which they do) and the students pay for an education with the goal of sustained employment upon graduation and that doesn't happen, students cease to enroll. Then revenues decrease. Reactively and strategically focusing on subsets of the real problem is what traditional education does best Tenure does not equal student success outcomes

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the democrats are destroying this state.But the PIELE CONVENTION? The University of Oregon environmental conference here,at the law school every year? THEY IGNORE all of Lane county GOVT. cutting down hundreds of trees here, more than a 100 years old! Lane county govt, and Eugene govt. DESTROYS HUNDREDS OF OLD,, ANCIENT TREES, EVEN RECENTLY.--AND NO ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP SAYS OR DOES ANYTHING! THERE IN NO TREE CONSERVATION HERE! THIS is the least environmental county and city,in all Oregon,and the state of Oregon destroys trees, wild life, wild animals and destroys them all, and lies about it. go on,check the records and facts! people who see this.and live here,know this is true. I dare you to check out the factual history. And natives here, know it's true. they'be seen Oregon destroyed, all their lives, more and more. this county, city, and state hates the environment, they are killing it.

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I don't know what this guy looks like, so yesterday as I walked around town I stopped everybody that looked like a 20-year-old Canadian and asked for an autograph and a selfie with him. I will post all the photos to my Snapgram account once I get them developed, because he must be in there.

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Where is the free ad?

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Oregon and Lane county and Eugene govts. have always been like this.To put it politely, the whole local govt. are crooks and thieves and dictators. I advise, if you want a real environmental area, move out of Oregon.This town has always been run by crooks and thieves. It's like a dictatorship-little-town in the Deep South, run by a tiny handful of families,and crooks at the top. Take some disreputable low-class totalitarian jerks, crooks, from the Deep South, that is Lane County,Eugene, and the state of Oregon. People who were natives, or lived here forever, have seen this. The reason you don't MEET NATIVES of Oregon, is, most of them MOVED AWAY.I know some, quite a few, who hate it, and will never come back.

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First off blabber, I want to thank you for your concerns regarding the well being of our once beautiful, peaceful State. Your passion is powerful and you sound like you're twisted up in knots over the true loss of our State to greed, pollution and special interests. I've spent the last ....wait......since '88 trying to bring awareness to locals and all most were concerned about was buying and selling and the worship of the almighty $$$. The only way I could find piece of mind for an outright impossible situation is/was to withdraw. Take care of yourself. I care. l2g

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"trumples ..." That's a good word. :) "*V.t*., To walk all over someone in a scathing and highly unfair manner ..."

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Huh, democrats voting to RAISE taxes? Whoda thunk it?

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BTW, Lew Williams had that dealership built, not Joe Romania, Lew should get the name credit.

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There still are moderates out there, you just never hear of them, thanks to the tea party. If he's the old school pre-Regan type, it might be worth it to read into his policy plans.

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It's true, I have had to look for customer reviews on EVERYTHING lately, every service and product,every where. If I don't do this, I get cheated, Ive been cheated, lately, any how by local computer repairmen, Microsoft games from Amazon.com, plumbers, bug-exterminators who charged me a $1,000 termite service, and later a different co. told me it was CARPENTER ANTS, NOT TERMITES! I even found doctors in Peace Health who were so bad,I had to leave them, & I found out by online client reviews, the doctor was SADISTIC and enjoyed seeing patients in pain! That doctor almost destroyed my health and life. no, you can't sue them you have to REVIEW THEM online.No courts will help patients who sue bad doctors. I talked to many clients who got horrible treatment, or neglect at Peace Health clinics, hospital, & surgeries, ect. I was amazed. You CAN REVIEW DOCTORS , SPECIALISTS NOW,online, I recommend it. There are very good specialists who have client reviews.-Let the buyer beware!

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3--BAD FOOD and bad cooking in Oregon, or Lane county, is more likely.the main restaurant food is pizza and beer, gourmet beer, pizza, beer, beer, beer!!. I have yet to find a really good Chinese restaurant, Kowloon's food is always delivered COLD. anyone know some really good Chinese, Japanese, let me know.Even old fashioned Cantonese. I love Chinese and Japanese, I miss it.

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Fuggidabaud this Bundy bunch. The most bizarre thing I've ever seen is the republican lineup for President. They bash Trump in one breath, then pledge absolute obedience to him in the next! Can you say, congratulations President Hillary, Vice President Bernie, and the whole new Democratic Congress? Oh, of course you can.

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Travel Oregon:" A nine-member board appointed by the Governor, the Oregon Tourism Commission governs the Travel Oregon staff and programs; the agency is funded by a 1% statewide transient lodging tax." Anyone want to bet it becomes a 10+ member board? That being said, Ms Brown, I am uniquely qualified to participate as Board Member #10. I enjoy travel and adventure and can spend money faster than anyone, as long as I don't have to waste my time at a desk actually earning it. I can start immediately, just give me a state car and a credit card.

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Funny that Republicans have passed bills out of the House, only to have them stalled by Democrats in the Senate. Who are the obstructionists?

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"Adding an educational component for schools" Once again the liberal Nannyists want to have the schools responsible for more social engineering. The schools are already told that they must be parents 24/7 when parents don't. They are supposed to provide food healthier than parents provide, they are supposed to monitor students emotional and physical well-being, they are supposed to develop and provide culturally sensitive classes which meet liberal views of how the world should be as opposed to how it is, they are day care centers in fact; they are required to do everything except provide education that will result in the 'students' being able to succeed after graduation either at a university or in gainful employment. That cannot be done by today's 'educators', even though it was accomplished by many 'teachers' within my lifetime. Little wonder, when they are required to spend so much of their time doing everything else.

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Does the name "Phil Knight" ring a bell?

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One of the more interesting aspects here is that this was a real review, by real customers, not a fake review by a competitor or the owners themselves and friends and family. Like Blabber in that comment, I depend on reviews but – in case this is useful to anybody else – I also try to watch for the obvious fakes and read through them for hints. I always distrust reviews when there are just a few, because it's so easy for owners to fake a few. I discount favorable reviews when they the same wording as the marketing of the business, because I suspect those are owners, friends, family of owners, not objective customers. And I read through the bad ones, when I'm really interested, to weed out the cases in which – just as one example – they hated the restaurant but they will say, in the review, that they were kicked out because they were drunk. Sometimes the authors of what I call "revenge reviews" are so angry they make it obvious.

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Listen to a supporter of the nanny state and listen to the distortion of reality to support government control. Tobacco causes 7000 deaths? Statements like that have become popular and some people fall for them. Fact is we all die (at least I am told, haven't proven it personally yet although I seem to age like everybody else). So they get 7000 deaths just be lumping together everyone who dies from certain classes of diseases. Of course those folks would pass on even if they never used tobacco, but the controllers do not want you to think about that. The cost argument. Also nonsense. Folks that have never smoked also experience medical expenses related to illness especially toward the end. There is no evidence that smokers ultimately cost more than non-smokers. I do not promote smoking. I have never smoked (except behind the incinerator once in 1962 with the boys). But government control of American's liberty and manipulation of their thinking is repulsive.

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Both parties take turns obstructing the other depending on who is in the minority. That way when they can't meet their campaign promises, they can blame the other party. Been working in this country for a couple of centuries and in England for even more centuries. Allegedly representative political systems around the world from Japan to Europe follow the same method because it keeps the parties in power.

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In some ways I like this situation. It is funny to see funny to see the establishment part of the party have problems with a candidate after having to hold my nose and vote for a candidate the last few cycles.

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Implementing this new law would also assuage the compulsive need to regulate other people's behaviors that is so pervasive in liberal circles. Commissioners could roll out the old "I have the moral right to tell you what to do because I'm paying for it excuse".

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So, a bully is worse than an incompetent and irresponsible pathological liar or a guy who's economic sensibility wouldn't fit a thimble?

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The criminal justice establishment just has nothing else to do so of course they create indictments for things that transpired and were largely forgotten several years ago. The indictments, trials, and incarceration will cost us millions, but so many of us support this bizarre system of locking people in cages for years. Much more humane and civilized to just give them a good whipping and let them get back to being productive citizens rather than pet monkeys kept at great cost in cages.

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But Gary, are you saying the right to free speech allows me to call you "crooked"?

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Taxing a business owner to the point where it no longer makes sense to go to work is not what I would call "support". Bernie doesn't understand entrepreneurship. He hardly understands work. By his own admission he was a lazy and disinterested student. He demonstrated little skill in making a buck - or interest in earning money - when he was young, in spite of having a child to support. He fled to the security of a federal job at the recommendation of a friend who, apparently, knew him pretty well. Bernie's a beltline insider, and his package of Change II is just more of the same: government greed, rising taxes, and biting the hands that feed them.

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You're culling based on perceived motivations or intent. While that may help you gain a more neutral impression, I believe a few bad reviews carry more weight that a larger number of good reviews. It would make an interesting and easily designed study. The larger issue is what is considered opinion or a claim of fact, the later of which can lead to libel if unsubstantiated. In this case "crooked" appears to be an opinion. But we just debated whether calling Clinton "a criminal" is a statement of fact. Criminal and crooked seem pretty close. So the question is: How far can online comments go? Though many people think words have distinct boundaries (falsely calling them "definitions"), they can be more fuzzy around the edges. If we can call a business owner crooked, can we call them a pervert under the guise of opinion. The problem as you note is not just buyer beware, but also reviewer beware.

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This is a much-needed article, it could be longer. As a 20+ year freelancer, one would think that things such as getting paid would get better with more people doing contract work. But I am having problems getting paid and thisand it's created a huge amount of stress and financial difficulties for me. I even worked for 3 months with a nonprofit organization that is supposed to help small businesses and contractors yet they didn't pay me one cent! When I applied for small claims court settlement they put two lawyers on me and asked for a jury trial. I would have loved to have continued this but I could't afford the time and stress. So now I am the average freelancer is owed $5000 or more (according to Freelancers Union). I am a female and I have also experienced organizations assuming women are volunteers. At the very least there is a huge need for trainings on how to work with freelancers in non profits and for profits. Some legal recourse would be great too.

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It seems you want to protect drivers from facing a serious infraction. Assuming you are a motorist, why would you defend motorists who speed in a school zone while talking on a phone from a judgement of "felony"? Assuming the driver was on a phone and speeding, what would be your judgement as to the punishment?

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This is exactly the type of situation Prozanski's law would address. If that child was maimed for life (but did not die, which would trigger a felony charge), should this motorist get off with just a ticket for whatever traffic infraction he incurred?

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A vote for Trump is a vote for diversity.

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I think all he was saying is he hopes the boy lives. We jump to assumptions so fast these days.

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It was an opinion, just like yours. Get over it already.

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I want to protect drivers from becoming prisoners, felons, unemployed, unemployable, etc for a very common lapse in judgement. I have no problem with levying huge fines for driving infractions. In this case the boy will be compensated via insurance and the driver should face a substantial fine. Why wait until an accident occurs? Making driving infractions felonies, as are murder and armed robbery, is IMO beyond corrective and becomes punative revenge. Also, if an injury or death is the trigger for determining felony violation, then add that to vehicle vs vehicle on illegal or unsafe passing, left turns, rear-ending, failing to yield..... I am all for DUI and driving while suspended being upgraded to felony - before it results in death.

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There is a Chinese restaurant next to Staples along West 11th in Eugene. I and my Chinese born friends find it to be quite good.

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No you aren't.

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So you'd have someone drive for you?

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At this point I wonder if the Bruins will even make the NIT. If they don't beat the Beavers, they will probably finish under .500.

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According to our friends on the left it is.

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"Implementing this new law would also assuage the compulsive need to regulate other people’s behaviors that is so pervasive in liberal circles". What? You mean that bastion of progressive wunderkinds, the Lane County Commissioners?

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Great. These lawsuits should never happen. In my experience and research, most of these SLAPP lawsuits are filed by business owners who are actually crooked, or at least crooked at the level of say, Trump University. Now I don't have anythng experience with this Dancing Deer Mountain, but based on my other experiences and impressions, if I had to geuss, based only on the article I read during breakfast this morning, I would geuss that they probably are crooked. I certainly will never recommend anyone to go near them. Similarly, my experience and second hand knowledge suggests that lawyers who file these SLAPP suits are sleazy. I won't be recommending "Watkinson Laird Rubenstein Baldwin & Burgess" to anybody. Again, this is not based on any personal interaction with any of them, just my general impressions. So businesses, if you think someone has impuned you unfairly, you are like every other business. Don't make it worse by filing one of these lawsuits.

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Food cart pavilion! Upscale eateries in small environments.

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Thanks for illuminating the flaw in this proposed legislation. It should make no difference what mode of transportation the youngster was using when he was struck by the car; he was merely crossing the street. The combination of speeding in a school zone and distracted driving should raise this to the Class A misdemeanor of reckless driving, which is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $6,250 fine.

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Now this is an interesting thought - incorporate the historically valuable Romania (Williams) structure into a new Architectural and Allied Arts School center - a nice marriage of "form and function" (Louis Sullivan) . Such symbiosis at this location would give new visual prominence to those well-regarded programs - anyone entering Eugene on Franklin Boulevard from the east would would be treated to a demonstration of what the School does. As far as this particular property being "surplus", a bit of intelligent, flexible planning could certainly switch that status to another 4.7 acres in the University's ample land inventory.

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Not quite as dangerous. 32,000 people per year on average nationally are killed in drunk driving situations compared to 4,000 people per year due to distracted driving but your point is still valid. Fines have been increased and yet I still see people blatantly texting and talking on their phones. Perhaps loss of a drivers license for 6 months would cure some of these folks who find it more important to be on their phones and putting peoples lives at risk rather than paying attention and driving.

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Fact: The statement "Oregon doesn't take drunk driving seriously" is not a fact. It is your opinion. Are you not a proponent of truth in labeling? One of every two Americans will be maimed by a motorist during their lifetimes? Ridiculous. Why spout such nonsense? Traffic fatalities in Oregon in 2013 -- your cherry-picked reference point -- totaled 313, the lowest in half a century. Context is king. Try it sometime.

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Tina, I share your concerns. My younger son went to this school years ago. Distracted drivers can do more harm than good. Praying for a speedy recovery for this boy, peace for his parents, and praying for the driver and his family.

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B.Carfree is anti-car absolutely and completely. Any statement of alleged fact by him regarding automobiles should be ignored absolutely and completely.

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That's an interesting point. "Crooked" does imply dishonesty and, likely, criminality. Unless you're a GOP candidate for the Presidency, it's stretching the limits of "free speech". I'm not sure of the history of case law on such comments. You are correct in questioning it. Thanks, Gary

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JP, good points, thanks. And you are right, I do try to weed out, or discount, reviews that are not actually objective reviews by users or customers. But of course that involves guessing. I'd also guess that the extreme negative reviews have more impact. I'd like to see the study you suggest. And I'm completely with you on the fuzzy lines problems. Although few reviewers are really thinking of legal liabilities, the kind of facts that can be validated are useful to readers, even if they carry the extra legal problems.

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Um, folks, let's not overlook the detail that Lananna and Co. wanted $3 million from the general fund to pay for security costs at this month's world indoor meet in Portland and the Olympic Trials at Hayward in July. That "ask" wasn't for nebulous, out-of-state tourism dollars, it was for real tax money from Oregonians. It was shot down, but it does expose the magnitude of the cojones TrackTown seems to believe it's swaying these days. Little wonder that the four senators with Lane County constituencies, each of whom could have scuttled the lodging tax increase by himself, chose instead to duck for cover by voting yes.

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Ve haf our vays uf making you comply.

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Fourth photograph from the top.

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Jade Palace =)

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If you read the opinion, it is obvious that the Oregon Supreme Court really, really, wanted to come out with the result that opinions in reviews like this one were protected by the 1st Amendment and also adopt the 9th Circuit's three step method of analysis for such cases. In order to do that, they really had to force language that looks suspiciously like facts which could be disproved (crooked) into the 'opinion' category. It also happens at the US Supreme Court level. Chief Justice Roberts upheld Obamacare a couple of years ago by holding that the 'Penalty' which will be imposed by the IRS on someone for not signing up for health insurance isn't really a 'penalty' as the law calls it, but a 'tax'. If it had been a 'penalty', it couldn't have been enforced under existing Constitutional law. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." Alice in Wonderland, indeed.

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Rip Gary

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In my opinion, both NE and West Coast IPAs are delicious and differ with their own unique aroma, flavors, mouthfeel, etc. That's why I think you can't really compare, for example, Sticky Hands or Pfriem IPA to Julius or Heady (or Juice Box in this context). They're all superb IPAs but are cut from a different cloth. It's like comparing Chicago deep-dish pizza to NY-style pizza.

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Improving one's health and cutting healthcare costs are great reasons why one should not smoke but shouldn't be legitimate arguments for the government increasing age of consent to 21. At some point, as a society I think we need to accept that adults will harm themselves with recreational drugs. Arguing that we all pay a price in health care costs isn't convincing to me, because as as country, we've already decided to subsidize bad decision making. That ship has sailed. When our taxes go to Medicare , we pay for diabetes and high blood pressure that are caused or exacerbated by lack of exercise or proper diet. Skin cancer from sun exposure, broken bones from dangerous activities and on and on. Unless we're prepared to just let the government regulate every aspect of our lives so that nothing bad ever happens to us, I think we need to push back on these kinds of ridiculous ideas by politicians.

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The Senate is currently composed of 54 Republicans, 44 Democrats, and 2 independents, both of whom caucus with the Democrats. The current leader is Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Both houses of congress are majority Republican.

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I agree with the ruling. The review was an expression of the reviewer's opinion. Like most customers, I give limited consideration to individual reviews. Opinions vary, so the collective feedback from many reviews is far more reliable. However, I would never, ever consider patronizing any establishment that sues its customers for civilly expressing their views, positive or not. I urge everyone to steer clear of this business.

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Find it hard to buy the 7,000 people a year die stance as these numbers are most likely represented by people who started smoking when it was still advertised on television. The effect of changes in laws and attitudes will not be fully apparent for several more decades.

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Lots of "allege" and not any "proof"

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Mr. Trump seems to know little about the real world beyond finance, and that seems dangerous. He seems to say the same thing over and over. Is ability to make money the only criteria for the office of leader of the free world? People like Trump's attitude because it seems to mirror their own, and everyone can find something to be angry about. I wonder how those same people will feel when a President Trump shouts 'Losers!' at anyone who has less money than he does, or receives any kind of public assistance (like Social Security or Medicare), and begins cutting all those programs.

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Tom: The relationship is not that difficult. TrackTown, Nike, and Phil and his buddies want to host the 2021 IAAF World Championships. The meet, which runs 9 days, will cost over 100 million dollars, or more than $10 million per day. TrackTown doesn't have the money, and Nike, Phil and his Nike-rich buddies want help underwriting the event. They decided the State taxpayers should be the source and worked with their "lap dog" legislators to find a way to get $25 million dollars from the State. Surprise, surprise, surprise.......after a few weeks of maneuvering, they're going to get the money. There are smiles in Nikeville, and that's what counts. Who gives a damn about taxpayers so long as Phil is happy and will contribute to the "right" election campaigns. For the unintiated, this is called "democracy in action."

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