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At RiverBend, doctors voted 342-25 to say they have no confidence in two top hospital executives: Jim McGovern and Kim Ruscher. It is the latest fallout from the executives’ decision to end a longstanding contract with a local physicians group to staff the emergency department — and replace it with a Georgia-based company. The doctors also voted 363-4 in support of reversing that decision. Ashli Blow continues her coverage of this story.
The mother of a 26-year-old man fatally shot by police two days after Christmas in 2024 is suing an Oregon State Police sergeant and others, alleging negligence in the death of her son, Tyler Holloway. The lawsuit seeks up to $12.5 million in damages. The shooting occurred east of Yachats in the Oregon Coast Range. Jaime Adame has the story.
Republicans boycotted the House floor Monday afternoon after the Oregon Senate sent the House a controversial bill that would reschedule a citizen vote on gas tax and vehicle fee increases — from November to May. Republicans want the issue to be on the ballot with the governor’s race. Our partner Oregon Capital Chronicle reports from Salem.
The City Club of Eugene has scheduled its next forum on a timely topic: roles, responsibilities and ethical obligations of public governing boards.
And in our opinion section:
- A guest column from three former chairs of the Springfield school board says the real story worth telling in the district is about academic gains, fiscal responsibility and oversight — not the scurrilous topics that have been getting attention in the news.
- Columnist Joshua Purvis says our immigration enforcement and protest activities need more order, less cruelty.
- And a letter-to-the-editor writer says Eugene City Council got it wrong to vote down the panhandling ban, saying it would have improved dangerous traffic situations.
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Hundreds of medical staff vote ‘no confidence’ in RiverBend leadership
By Ashli Blow
Doctors at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend took a vote that challenges the decision of the executives who approved a switch in emergency providers.
Wrongful death lawsuit filed after fatal police shooting
By Jaime Adame
The lawsuit seeks up to $12.5 million in damages and alleges officers at the scene were negligent in their tactics. The Oregon State Police are also defendants in the lawsuit.
As gas tax, gun control votes near, state House Republicans walk out
By Shaanth Nanguneri / Oregon Capital Chronicle
GOP lawmakers said they were pausing work over lack of negotiation on a bill moving a gas tax and vehicle fee referendum from the November ballot to May, as well as developments on a 2022 gun law.
Given a chance to improve road safety, Eugene councilors let us down | Letter to the editor
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