Heady Writing From the Streets of Eugene, Oregon
When the Eugene Police Department released the full 23-minute body-cam footage of former officer Martin Siller ahead of Tim Lewis doing so during his Friday, May 15 press conference, they also chose to release...
“Integrity. Compassion. Courage.” The three core values of the Eugene Police Department have, once again, been proven moot by its latest scandal, which, so far, has led to former Officer Martin Siller’s abrupt resignation...
On Feb. 9, the Eugene City Council held the first of its two public monthly meetings and listened to comments from the community on a variety of topics. However, as each speaker concluded, one...
Community members across Lane County have been peacefully protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s presence in the region since last July. In doing so, people have gathered daily at the Old Federal Building downtown and...
On Jan. 30, community members in both Eugene and Springfield attended rallies to demand that ICE be out of Lane County, in solidarity with the nationwide general strike that day. In Eugene, a riot was declared.
Yesterday, Aug. 28, more than a dozen press organizations sent a letter to Mayor Kaarin Knudson and Eugene Police Department’s Chief Chris Skinner admonishing Public Information Program Coordinator Michael Rea’s use of press markers...
DSM, concerned by the EPD’s cosplay as members of the press, spoke to journalism experts who all agreed that this is bad.
Editor’s Note: Upon publication, a representative for Riverstone Mobile Home Park in Cottage Grove responded that, fortunately, no deaths occurred there. While we at DSM do not consider ourselves qualified enough to declare this...
Good journalism is a dying breed these days and printed newspapers are becoming a thing of the past. Here in Eugene, only a few outlets still print and, unfortunately, the community just lost another...
Well, we think it’s only right that we acknowledge “the elephant in the room:” we’ve published three new articles since announcing, at the beginning of September, that we would shut down our operations. Simply...
