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I wonder how people would react to a company that had a official policy of male only contractors?
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A moral crisis for "our" people or yours?
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Customer reviews on line are generally negative as folks with positive experiences don't feel motivated to post. The establishment met or exceeded their expectations doesn't motivate a comment. Some negative reviews are almost hysterically funny when criticizing small faults in the context of the experience. i.e. my 30 percent discounted hotel room was "horrible" because I found a hair in the shower and leads me to other "halo effect" negative comments. The downside of this decision to me is that it will lead to attempts at business sabotage. If I own one of two Italian restaurants in town, why not post negative reviews of my competitor under various review names? It is all "opinion" and I run no risk of being held accountable. Small businesses like this one risk a lot of personal assets of the owner. I applaud them for trying to protect their business and the jobs of their employees.
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Apparently to our friends on the left it is.
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I believe Morgan and Williams. I can't believe this kind of stuff still goes on. You're helping every minority who follows; women, people of color, however-one-identifies-gender-wise and so on. Stay strong.
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The establishment of this new monument is completely unnecessary. The old growth forests in this region are already protected, and clear-cutting is no longer an accepted forestry practice. This will simply eliminate sustainable timber harvest from a huge area, at the cost of jobs and revenues. Too, anyone who has investigated the backstory of the Malheur standoff knows that the conflict in that area stemmed from the BLM working to force property owners adjacent to the wildlife refuge to sell, often by dishonest and destructive means. This new proposal simply opens to the door for a new round of federal land grabs in the west. No thanks.
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Because of filibuster rules in the Senate, it takes 60 votes to get most things passed. This is where the Democrats hold everything up. To be fair, Republicans have been known to do the same when Democrats are in charge.
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I think people are just shocked that somebody from the right is acting like a bully. The people on the right have been bullied for decades. First it was civil rights, then abortion, and gay rights. Now it seems to be transgender rights. If you do not say or do the current correct things according to the left, you are ridiculed and shut out of the town square.
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"Best" is a relative term. Doesn't necessarily mean "... couldn't be improved upon ..." , or even "... very good ..."
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Yes, and a tomato is a sports car.
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She reminds me quite a bit of a certain president that had to resign (RMN, anyone). Unfortunately, I think too many people have forgotten all about him.
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Thats a great question to ask...and frankly, it doesnt sound like the question was answered. The answer that was given was a canned response that has been used for decades. I applaud Chuck Lillis for asking it!
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Why is his flock evil? Is it that they will not follow the current set of rules that the left wants to put us under?
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This is also part of the plan by eco and animal rights extremists to kill off the sport of hunting, by placing more and more land off-limits to hunting. Hunting is not allowed on National Monuments. Bit by bit, the Federal government is taking over Oregon's land, and placing it off limits to traditional uses and access by the public. A half million acres is a very sizable chunk of Linn County.
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Hello, JF. Re: "... terrifying, releases from permafrost ...", er, terrifying to whom? You may have noted that Ruppel points out in her article that current Arctic seabed methane releases in many cases are coming from terrigenous permafrost that was drowned by rising sea levels after the Last Glacial Maximum. My own views on your point are conditioned by field research on modern Alaskan permafrost terrane, viz., GSA Special Paper 319, Pewe et al. (1997), "Eva Interglaciation Forest Bed - Unglaciated East Central Alaska: Global Warming 125,000 Years Ago." In that paper, they document how Alaskan permafrost was totally melted up to the Brooks Range during the last interglacial, when it was at least 5 deg. C warmer all year round than it is now. Not just for a little while, either. Centuries at least, possibly a millennium or two. But, the World Didn't End. Does that change your perspective? Something to think about. Thanks for the exchange of views.
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So the question arises: Why hasn't the Press, including Willamette Week, pressured or even asked Donald Trump about his views of the Bundy family criminal and domestic terrorist behavior? I've asked. Trump refuses to tell. Richard Ellmyer, North Portland
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The only reason why the government waited so long was because the Bundys, who were the leaders of the conspiracy, were hold up at their ranch all of this time. It has been less than two years since this incident. The government feared another bloody Ruby Ridge or Waco type confrontation, if they moved in on the ranch, where numerous innocent women and children also live. Remember, these people all own lots of deadly military style guns, which are designed to kill members of law enforcement. So they are extremely dangerous individuals. Note that they were charged with a number of gun crimes, so they were a clear threat to go nuts with their guns again. It would have been disastrous for the FBI to have moved in sooner against a bunch of crazed people hold up at a ranch with guns. By coming to Oregon, the Bundys gave the Federal government a safe and easy way to arrest them all. It was the opportunity that the FBI had long been waiting for. That is why this is all happening now.
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As these criminals spend the coming decades locked up in prison, they can sing this song in their cells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgtQj8O92eI
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Alley is a good pick. He understands business and economics, which is Brown's chief failing, and has private and public backgrounds, with Brown lacking any significant private sector experience. He has also signed lots of paychecks. And if the extremely partisan Democrat Kulongoski chose him for his inner staff he is obviously viewed as very capable by both sides of the aisle. His biggest problem will be red meat Republicans who will not vote for him because of social litmus tests. I would also like to see Betsy Johnson enter the race for governor.
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"Alleged" criminals. Like Hillary.
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Hillary will be slinging mud soon enough, and it will be nasty.
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Exactly. Trump is vocalizing what millions of Americans won't say out loud for fear of being publicly ridiculed by the left. Trump is immune to political correctness and that's what makes him so popular. Political Correctness has met its nemesis in Donald Trump and it sure is fun to watch.
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I agree with you here. They are totally different styles, and it would be best if when we are evaluating them we can treat them as such. Obviously, there are some things that straddle the line, but overall Northwest and Northeast IPAs have the verged into totally different beer styles. There are more different than British and American, even. It would be great to see the GABF add a category. In Portland, though, there are still so few of the new England style that I think we're going to continue lumping them together for at least a few more years.
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What if I identify as male?
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Save your breath for cooling your ceviche!
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Or stay for a while. wink wink, nudge nudge
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Actually, it was a tongue-in-cheek rhetorical query. One of America's richest men needs help to promote his private promotional track meet? "I'll take my little ol' company and leave this puny state!" Go ahead, Phil. Some of us Oregonians aren't solely driven by money and profit. At the rate this state is going, it'll be Nikegon.
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Oregon: #1 destination for relocating Americans. Top 3 state economy in the country. The severity and scope of the cognitive dissonance necessary to self-identify as a conservative in this state is alarming. Oregon destroyed. Right.
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Or better yet, why not just take a bunch of gasoline and burn down the other Italian restaurant? Why don't business owners do that? Why do we assume that business owners are inclined to be crooked? It is rare that business owners act intentionally malicious to their competition, but even the best intentioned business owners will have a customer who they have a legitimate and healthy disagreement with. You DO run the risk of being accountable, if you didn't eat there. I think that 'competitor-defamation' is some sort of a bogeyman that got invented for people who can't imagine there's someone who would disagree with them. Although please change my mind: Have there been legitimate proven case of competitor defamation? You hear about companies going after customers all the time, but have they ever found out it was the competition? I'm actually quite curious.
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And our passive, apathetic students will take it, lying down. In Europe, such attempts to raise tuition are met with near riots by concerned, passionate students. Here? "Let's go to the pot shop and then play beer bong, dude--- tuition is a bummer!"
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This, my friends, is the calamitous state higher education is brought to when business types are allowed to run the show. Universities are not corporations. Instructors are not managers. Students are not widgets or customers. Tenure is a time-honored standard of higher education for one reason, one that is crucial to the functioning of a free and true university: it allows faculty to take positions that are against the norm, against popular opinion, and to foster open discussion. Without this guarantee, people like the ignorant chairman can put pressure on spineless administrators to fire those who teach positions they do not favor. Time for a new chairman! (follow the link to see how right-wing conservatives are gutting N. Carolina's universities http://www.thenation.com/article/how-right-wing-political-machine-dismantling-higher-education-north-carolina/)
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Hey, it worked for Obama, why not Trump?
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Factored into inflation, I was as student loan leveraged as anyone back in the day. I went out and got 3 jobs, two at minimum wage. Back breaking work. Get to work, hard work and pay your loans back. When was the last time we saw any of these college kids throwing a shovel?
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No, I get it. Regardless, you couldn't explain why water is wet. I'm just not sure how your comment is civil though.
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These folks are all indicted and locked up in jail. That is a big difference. Besides, Hillary wants to ban and get rid of all Salt Rifles, so that kooks like these fellows cannot threaten the government with them anymore. These 19 men in jail are actually Hillary's defeated enemy. Hillary will make it a point to put more nuts like these behind bars once she is President. We will no doubt need to build more prisons soon, in order to incarcerate these people. They are way too dangerous to be let out in society.
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OK... The Motel is on GLENWOOD DR in Eugene, in the Gateway area, not actually IN Glenwood, as the headline would have you believe..... (as of 3/4 at 2:18pm anyway....).
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"My progressively minded colleagues, standing in a fifth-grade schoolyard, hurl invectives, as do our conservative cousins across the blacktop." And these are the 'Real" voters, not those who think about 'our national intellect'. And right now, the Real voters on both ends of the spectrum are angry. If Hillary is anointed, there will be even angrier voters on the progressive side; and they are the young, enthusiastic ones. The 'seed corn' on the progressive side. Will they forgive an forget those who 'know best' for the Democratic elite right now?
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I certainly agree that the City of Eugene should do everything possible to encourage the homeless and the travelers to arrive and stay in Eugene to partake of the cornucopia of benefits that the taxpayers of Eugene wish to offer. Free food, free housing, free medical care, free sterile needles, free sanitation facilities; hold nothing back that will encourage them to arrive in Eugene and stay. The taxpayers of Eugene are wealthy; they can easily afford it if they will just tighten their belts and quit being so greedy.
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One thing I don't see any coverage of is the fact that New Day School, a large pre-k school is located close to this facility (closer than Hosford) and the children there all eat from their large community garden.
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It passed muster as most saw it as sarcasm - part of civil discourse among mature adults. Sorry you remain uncertain. Now, about that water being wet...
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I did some repair work for PPS one summer, mostly on door locks and panic bars. A bunch of incompetents who also explained to me that even if the work did not make a whole lot of sense they would lose the federal money if they did not spend it. One of the regular PPS crew spent about half the time talking about hunting and fishing, etc. and the others said that he just didn't seem to understand that he was supposed to be working. If you can call it that. This is pretty mild stuff compared to what typically goes on in construction work. An insult is the least of it. Usually they just fire you and replace you with their buddy who is broke from his last trip to Vegas. They tell you to just shrug it off. Did either of these guys actually get terminated from their gravy jobs?
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Do you just allege that or can you prove it?
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Point taken. Filibusters are definition a tactic of the Senate minority, of course. And yes, both parties have turned to filibuster as minority in the Senate. I question redefining obstruction as Filibuster only; I think of obstruction as the daily fare of congress during the entire administration of President Obama. What I'd really like to see, instead of you and me arguing about which party is guilty of it, is all of us demanding that the party politicians on both sides start showing us that they care a whole lot more about the good of the country than they do about the good of the party. Let's all oppose politicians of either side who make party politics their priority. On that, I hope, we can agree.
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"Apparently, putting a free-speech message on a sign where it can be seen and read by passersby is an activity not condoned by our city government". Just figuring that out are you?
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Tom: While it might have been rhetorical and "tongue in cheek", it's also a very legitimate question. The event will benefit only a very small group of Oregon's elite. It will have no lasting positive on Oregon's economy. It's just a little ego boost for TrackTown and Phil and his cronies. It does, however, show how vulnerable Oregon's politicians are to pressure from the "big hitters."
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Yes! Vote for Bernie!
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I think "our" is an all encompassing word....and concept. I don't think any one group can own the word. BTW, who are "your" people? other-worldly?
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Professors are employees. Well paid and privileged employees, to be sure. But employees nonetheless. A contract governs the relationship between these employees and the U of O. In Oxford or Cambridge etc, , centuries ago, the relationships were much different. Get over it and do what you were hired to do; earn Grants or teach or both. If you aren't doing either of those, you are a mere parasite and not even a symbiotic one at that. Pontificating is not a required part of your job description.
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No problem, just take out a little more on your student loan. No problem, graduate with 50K or more loan debt. No problem, get a minimum wage job with your hours limited to 30 per week, pay your student loan monthly payment, pay your rent, pay your utility bill, buy some food, .....oh, oh,.....wait a minute..maybe it is a problem. Schill say tuition "is the one part of the budget that's under our control." What a caring, compassionate comment. Mr Schill makes $660K/year and gets the trustees to approve yet another tuition raise for Uof O students. Indeed, the U of O is being run "like a business".........take care of the "fat cats" and screw everyone else.
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You have a Board of Trustees who are dedicated to running a University "like a business." As you say, it's not a business, and professors and staff are not "at will" employees to be treated like peons. Schrill raises student tuition with the Board approval and, now, Liles proposes some serious "union busting." Nice job, guys......
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I wonder how many more victims of EPD are out there. It was clear at the time that the investigators did not want to put a lot of effort into finding all of them. The legacy of that is that EPD continues to have sexual assault and harassment claims against them. Eugene could really be a great city if we had a professional police department and a competent city manager.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but since this IS a tax measure, doesn't this have to be approved by the voters? As far as I know, any and all tax measures must be approved by us, and I, for one, will not vote for it. There is no reason whatsoever to be funding with additional tax money (which we are not will get where it is intended) a track meet in Duckville. Honestly!
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Actually, with regard to the background checks, the current law says the dealer "may" release a firearm after no result from a background check in 72 hours, but by policy none of them do. NW Armory will not release a firearm until the background check comes back, no matter how long it takes. The same for the Gun Broker in Clackamas, Fishermans Marine and Cabelas. Typically, background checks requiring any research can take eight to 12 weeks and the dealers, by policy, do not release the weapons without them. The proposed legislation would not have changed anything.
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Not all of us have, blabber. I am an Oregonian born and bred, and while I hate what Dems have done to our once great state, I choose to stay in what is still a beautiful place to live. We just need to do a complete 180 on where we are going as a state and get a whole new breed and class of politician in office to make some much needed changes. But I agree with your comments. We are in a bad way.
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I agree with you about candidates worried about the party over everything else. That is why I refer to myself as a conservative rather than a Republican, even though I am registered as a Republican. I also voted for the top two primary system in both this state and Washington to help get away from everything being controlled by the parties.
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There's two issues here: 1.) Is Eugene's sign code so onerous that it burdens our First Amendment rights? 2.) Does complaint-driven code enforcement work? I'll leave the first issue to the lawyers, although it seems that a strong case can be made that it at least places unnecessary burdens on our right to express ourselves. On the second, it leaves us with a city that doesn't enforce its own laws except in rare cases. This makes people feel singled out when enforcement is directed at them and also makes it nigh on impossible to mount a challenge that changes the code, since it affects almost no one (even when many are violating it). Who's going to call in the contractor neighbor who built a liveable "shed" in his back yard? Sure, it's sub-code by definition since it didn't get the permits that are required, but the city's ability to keep complaints anonymous isn't to be trusted, so there goes your relationship. If we're going to have laws, let's have workable enforcement.
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The more important question to ask, is what are are the most productive faculty doing? To be "collegiate", every system has what is known be to called "free riders". Never has there been a system known to be free of this defect. The argument between capitalism vs. communism is not who is doing the least, but who is doing the most. There was a day before Martin Luther's proclamation and the day after. Unfortunately for tenured professors, acceptance of that day is coming.
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Universities are not some factory to churn out wage earners. If they are, let's just eliminate liberal arts and stick with business classes taught at community colleges, alone. I am unaware of any professors that do nothing, as you imply. It would be useful if you could provide any factual information about tenured professors contributing so little. I assure you, from the personal knowledge of the many I know, that pride and a love of their fields drives them all to achieve and succeed to the limit of their abilities. Peer approval, like in all fields, is important to them. Removing tenure would accomplish one thing, definitely: it would send a chilling message to supporters of academic freedom of speech. It would also be the single greatest contributor to the dumbing down of our society.
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Who represents the plaintiffs? Who are the employees who allegedly made the comments? Who "handled" the HR investigation?
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The chairman asked a question in a public meeting of an employee, who happens to be directly accountable to a board appointed by the former governor, about the efficacy of academic tenure. If you support tenure as a way to foster open discussion and take positions against the norm and public opinion, then in that spirit it follows that such a question would be a perfectly valid one to ask in an open forum of the university's highest official. It allowed the president to respond not behind closed doors but for all to hear and on the record. Furthermore, the 79 non-renewal notices issued this week went to non-tenured faculty represented by the same union as those who are tenured. No one is suggesting busting a union. Finally, making the inconvenient effort to spell the board chairman's and president's names correctly would be a giant step toward the vicinity of persuasiveness.
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The message from recent news of car/pedestrian encounters is very clear: it is open season on anyone except motorists. There should be heavy penalties for injuring anyone with an automobile, including loss of license, and more severe ones for a death. And yet we debate and debate the point. When did distracted driving, for any reason, become all right? A distracted driver is riding an unguided missile, and we can only hope no one gets in the way.
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I have to admit that hearing her say, "I am not a crook!" would feel a little like deja vu all over again.
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I agree those are 1960-70 Republican planks and the core of their party. It defines those issues that republicans believe the federal goverment has a role. I'm not sure what you meant by tax's - Reagan went down, the back up, Bush senior did the same. That actually made them far more moderate than today's Republicans. Party policy from both sides has show that the United States can generate wealth (if not products). We have people that make money with money, our financial sector could not be happier, (they cover the huge profits with the topic switch ---- look, look, a regulation just came around the corner.....) But I'm making assumptions Tom, sorry. I'd like to hear what you might say a Republican view of each is. Democrats key issues are also economic, defense, taxes - it's just not the same opinion. The 'big' part of Democrats goes to other issues like education, (all levels but mostly colleges), envinment (which is also economic), poverty support/crime prevent
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I can prove it. I have proper documentation of my maleness. Unlike the racism quoted in this article.
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what is racial microagressions?
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What a shame. It would have been the perfect conversion for all the Starbucks in former Coffee People locations.
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None of this is true.
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You do remember that RMN was a Republican, don't you? He made a glaring mistake, but I kind of miss him.
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Eugene needs a mayor that understands much more than homelessness. It doesn't appear that Vinis has had much luck solving the homeless problem so far. Maybe Vinis just needs to get her hands on more of that sweet taxpayer money.
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"Morgan began working for PPS as a steamfitter on a temporary basis in 2010, and Jason Williams has worked for the district since 2004." Well, twelve years? That's better than twelve days, like some union---or even non-union-- jobs. At least you get to know a few people.
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Interesting comments. The elimination of tenure is, in fact, a step toward making currently tenured professors "at will" employees. I know the 79 non-renewed positions were likely "adjunct" staff, operating w/o any job security. No one would ever openly suggest "busting a union."....of course not. However, if it's possible to change the structure of employment to eliminate tenure, the impact is to enhance the power of the administration vis a vis the teaching staff, which, I would suggest, is the intent. It seems you were able to discern whom I addressed with my comments, so the spelling or mis-spelling of names wasn't a major problem. If we're really concerned with credibility and persuasiveness, I'd suggest signing a post with your real name contributes far more the spell-checking the names of the two gentlemen whose actions I address. I'll make you a deal.....I'll be more careful with spelling and you identify yourself as I have......Thanks, Gary
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Great writing. And if that is what the American people want to watch,(and aren't we a generation of TV watchers - now many media), It's a bit sad. I like to hear real policy. Representatives that show some insight, use good statistics and have accomplishments get extra attention. I think we all associate with some foundational principles that rate as very important in our judgement. We all have different life experiences, different educations, different gifts or challenges. It makes us all unique. Politically, isn't it very strange - that with all the possible combinations of how values are established, we get only TWO personalities to choose from, Democrat or Republican?
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Where can you buy seeds? Any garden store?
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This is very funny and ironic! Great job!
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It's easier to just borrow some more money and/or have your parents borrow some more money and keep on going. 'Someday' you will have to pay it back. Like retirement planning for those out there already working, 'someday' is way out in the future someplace. Current pleasures and activities are the really important 'now'.
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Yes, I do remember what party he belonged to. I think he made more than 1 mistake. I believe Hillary is as paranoid as he was and I think she handles her opponents in a similar manner. He is also one of the reasons I do not describe myself with a party label.
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Actually, you openly suggested the chairman proposed union busting, effectively putting the words in his mouth, so you'll have to own that. I'm pleased that he raised the question about the value of tenure; it deserves consideration, and it's better that the board chairman ask it than have it come from a reporter or a student or a faculty member or anyone else. Misspelling the two names was both lazy, especially with the edit feature, and disrespectful. Dismissing such oversights as somehow excusable because you use your real name is yet another example of hubris that's, unfortunately, become all too familiar.
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We can soon expect the print version of the Register Guard Tabloid to be available at our local checkout stands. The language acceptable on the Tweet portion of the current on-line R-G as well as the pictures on this portion show us that their new business model is heading towards the National Enquirer model. Full color pictures of this 22 year old punk is what I have been yearning for.
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Well, Tim, I actually respect Donald for saying what he thinks. From conservatives in Congress to those sitting on the Supreme Court, an impartial observer would have to say they ALWAYS vote against minorities' rights. Trump at least says, "Okay, I don't like or trust 'em, so sue me." (in so many words) That's partly what makes him attractive: he's willing to say what others are too cowardly to and he's willing to take the heat for it. Not defending his racism, only saying it's been there a long time among conservatives and he's underlying it with a HUGE stroke of black ink. In some ways, he's done progressives a HUGE favor.
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Uh, no. It's the hate-filled conservative core that has finally found a guy who stands up and says it, loud and proud: I'm a bigot! What's amazing is the continuing support among the conservative poor for the repeal of Obamacare. Many of them and their families are profiting from it and yet, like higher taxes on the rich or a higher minimum wage, they oppose it. This incredible stupidity on their part has been going on for years. It's like watching the village idiot hit himself in the head, repeatedly, and complain of a headache.
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Interesting review, with all respect, I don't question your opinion on this but what kinds of movies do you like? Thanks.
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Obama hardly deserves to be listed with Bill and Hillary as establishment. He finessed Obamacare (with Pelosi and Reid) through a far more hostile environment than Bill C ever had to contend with. And he got climate change agreements. And the nuclear deal w/Iran. And his executive orders limiting coal. And, and, and… It's like you're trumpeting conservative ideology, unwittingly. Why? I, by the way, am a wild Sanders supporter.
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I hope you're kidding. You think Trump and Hillary are interchangeable?
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Guest: First, please note I put "union busting" in quotations. Had I meant it in its literal sense, I would not have used those quotation marks. Goodness, both lazy and disrespectful....shame on me. If such petty concerns are your focus, you most have too much time on your hands. I feel using one's real name gives credibility to a post because it eliminates the issue of, for example, someone who works for the adminstration of the U of O posting anonymously and serving as a shill to defend the administration. Of course, you would certainly never do that. Would you?
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You might need proof in a court of law but I believe them they have no reason to lie about this and there are lot of 'white privilage' especially among the trade people.
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This has to stop who's going to look into this feather bedding behavior?
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This will take some leverage in the city to get this addressed and stopped at the root of the problem. I'm so sorry for all people that have to deal with this kind of oppression. If these bullies think they can get away with it once they keep it up.
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It is amazing how many national voices seem to think a third party effort might be possible after mid-summer. Such ignorance. Such a thing will be possible only for the next few days. Then that option will be closed - for anyone - Trump, thank God, included.
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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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I think Clinton is a conservative Democrat, a supporter of war, Wall Street and big business, like her husband and Obama. I haven't voted for the lessor of two evils in many years. It is not in my moral or economic self-interest to support the status quo, which is what Clinton represents. If Trump wins I guess that's what this country deserves.
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I'd like to see Mr. Motleycrew take a few days to pretend to be homeless and try to access this cornucopia of benefits. Especially the free housing. The only place in Eugene I can think of where such a cornucopia of benefits is provided, with exception of free needles, is the Lane County jail.
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One of greatest successes at the University of Oregon was the development of the zebrafish model organism. It is now considered one of the best systems for studying many aspects of development and disease, and Oregon gets a large amount of cachet for being the source of it. Interestingly, George Streisinger took many years to make the system work, and was considered by any outside metrics to be unproductive during that time. He would have been first on the chopping block if his employment was in the hands of a bean-counting Dean and he did not have tenure to protect him. Now, how to discern the unproductive from the temporarily unproductive future game-changers and protect only the latter? That I don't know. Maybe protecting game-changers is too much to ask of a university in dire financial straits and too much to ask of students in debt. But I think many people think of tenure as a way to protect just the political faculty; it affects the sciences as well.
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Correct - putting it square in the heart of Glenwood
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Hi CherryAnn, State tax increases do not have to be approved by voters. But they do require a three-fifths majority vote in both chambers. Voters could potentially gather enough signatures to refer this tax increase, or any other, to the ballot for a vote. But it doesn't happen automatically. Thanks.
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If Lillis had his way and tenure is eliminated, would it surprise anyone if professors who were critical of Lillis, or the idea of operating a university as "a business" were the first to go? Stephen J Remington
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Allegations can be proved in a court of law. It's a fundamental precept of our democracy. This article reported allegations in a proper and accurate way. They will be proved right or wrong in court. I do not understand why you have a problem with that.
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On a practical matter, a single university removing tenure would create a flood of faculty leaving for the employers offering better terms. The U of O could end up as an excellent educational institution, but it wouldn't be a research university.
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Actually, the first to go would be anyone with sufficient success to be employed at an institution that grants tenure.
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Obama a supporter of big business? Certainly not the fossil fuel one. And Obama ended two wars and has come under heavy fire for not fomenting a third in the ME, specifically by invading Iran or Syria (or both). You lump both Clintons in with Obama: that is unfair and indefensible--- though I'd like to hear your arguments.
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Oh contrare Deckert "winner.takes.all.proposal".............the tax 'feels' that way to you because you and business are not used to paying your part. Small businesses don't like it? Then you guys take it up w/the big corporations....they're the ones after all is said and done, who are really throwing the middle class into nonexistence.
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