Tag: Kitty Piercy
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Eugene: Outside Travelers Controlling Our Public Spaces
“Lots of options, but no easy answers for downtown Eugene homeless, transient population” from The Register-Guard ~ Eugene Sept 13, 2015 With a single email sent the Thursday before last, Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy reignited an old but evergreen debate in our city: Should people be bothered by downtown’s ubiquitous homeless and transient population and,…
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Mayor Admits Downtown is Overrun by Traveling Gangs
In an impassioned email the mayor said that as I walked through downtown on Thursday, “I don’t think I saw one homeless person as I know them to be. I think I counted 27 travelers, many of them with dogs, sprawled on the corners throughout the center of town.” I’m not judging people by their looks or lifestyle,…