11/11/2010: My personal preferences are for more riverfront development, not less. But they are also for more transparency, not less. And the Connecting Eugene people have just demonstrated, very convincingly, that UO and ORI would have been *much* better off with more transparency from the start. Now ORI faces long…
Posts tagged as “riverfront research”
11/10/2010: From Dan Corcoran of KEZI. The most purely rhetorical question I’ve heard in a while is from Paul Cziko of Connecting Eugene: “Should the University follow the law and uphold its contracts? That’s the question. Do we do it all the time, or do we do it when it’s…
11/9/2010: The Senate has an unusually full agenda for tomorrow – everything from the ORI building to a report by Frances Dyke on parking. The opposition to the ORI project has dug up some documents that apparently show the decisions to approve the building were made without the necessary community…
8/21/2010: From Greg Bolt in the RG: A group opposed to the construction of a new building in the University of Oregon’s Riverfront Research Park has dropped its appeal of the project. The group, Connecting Eugene, on Friday said that rather than pursue the case with the Oregon Court of…
7/20/2010: Op-Ed in the RG by 2 UO alumni and the ASUO president against the ORI Riverfront research building: … Despite decades of overwhelming opposition by students, faculty and community members to development north of the railroad tracks, the university hasn’t held a single public meeting related to the placement…
1/20/2010: I really don’t know anything about local land use decisions. I wish someone who does would start a blog. From the outside, the local decision process seems to involve a few passionate citizens obstructing OK projects because they are not perfect, combined with secrecy, brinksmanship and apocalyptic warnings from…
1/17/2010: Anthony Biglan of ORI calls out the AAA professors opposing their new building: This year Oregon Research Institute will celebrate its 50th anniversary of doing research in the behavioral sciences. Much of our work focuses on the prevention and treatment of the major psychological and behavioral problems that jeopardize…
11/13/2009: There is a certain theme to these 2 stories in the ODE today: Alex Zielinski on the Research Park expansion: A group of University students and faculty is attempting to interrupt the University’s plan to add 4.2 acres of new buildings to the south bank of the Willamette River.…