Lookout PM: Eugene's connection to canceled concert at Kennedy Center

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Chuck Redd, music director for the annual Oregon Festival of American Music at The John G. Shedd Institute, is at the center of a political firestorm after he canceled a Christmas Eve jazz concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after President Donald Trump’s name was added to the institution. Annie Aguiar has the details.

While the fall and winter has been mostly mild, it does look like overnight temperatures are set to dip below 30 degrees, prompting the Egan Warming Centers to open starting tomorrow evening. Michael Zhang has more information.

Guest columnist Joshua Purvis examines Eugene’s Multi-Unit Property Tax Exemption (MUPTE) and how making it more measurable could yield better results and increase public trust.

In a letter to the editor, Caitlin Soch with Environment Oregon shares her view that H.B. 4626 would roll back energy-saving appliance standards and perpetuate energy waste.

And for those of you waiting to hit the slopes, ski season has finally started in Oregon – but the number of open lifts and runs is pretty limited.

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Egan Warming Centers open Saturday amid freezing temperatures

By Michael Zhang

With a bout of below-freezing weather forecasted through the weekend, Egan Warming Centers will open Saturday, Dec. 27. The facilities, led by St. Vincent de Paul, provide unsheltered people in […]

Making MUPTE measurable – and building public trust

By Joshua Purvis

The City of Eugene has made no secret of its goal: build more housing downtown. But the public still can’t easily see whether approvals of tax breaks actually turn into apartments. Eugene can fix it with one simple move: publish a quarterly scoreboard, and a clock that tracks each project from City Council approval to the first […]