Seeking sustainability.
Byline: The Register-Guard In promoting her Sustainable Business Initiative, Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy risks embracing a concept that everybody supports, but no one can define. Piercy may succeed, however, in giving the idea a solid foundation by focusing on how particular segments of the local economy can...

REI expands health benefits.
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard If you thought a two-day-a-week job at REI might be your ticket to hang out with an active crowd and get discounts on outdoor gear ... well, you were probably right. But the Seattle-based retailer is about to extend an...

New ideas for schools win favor in Eugene.
Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard A pair of education reform advocates from the Portland-based Chalkboard Project found a largely receptive audience at the Eugene City Club on Friday, where they explained the initiative's recently unveiled strategies for improving Oregon's public school system. But one of...

Goodbye gridlock: I-105 reopens early.
Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard Eugene-Springfield's trip down the long, hard road of a disruptive spring paving project ended abruptly Friday morning. Oregon Mainline Paving finished the major Interstate 105 closures at 10:30 a.m. - more than a month ahead of schedule. That...

Supervising Staff: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians.
1555705243 Supervising staff; a how-to-do-it manual for librarians. Trotta, Marcia. Neal-Schuman 2006 194 pages $59.95 Paperback How-to-do-it manuals for librarians; no.141 Z682 Although managing collections, technology and public service...

Guest editorial.
It is with pleasure that I have been invited to be guest editor of this special issue of Rural Society focusing on rural social work practice. The idea for this edition emerged in the lead up to the 2004 International Social Work Conference held in Adelaide in October where...

'Great lifestyle, pity about the job stress': occupational stress in rural human service practice.
Abstract Social workers, welfare workers and others living and working in small rural communities report that they are generally highly satisfied with their work and lifestyle. Paradoxically, high levels of occupational stress are also reported. Rural welfare work has elements such as the adoption of dual and...

Seeking support.
Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard I feel alone - totally isolated in a place assumed to be full of allies. A Eugene School District administrator made the comment last spring at one of three focus group sessions conducted by Terry Leary, the district's equity and...

Child Abuse and Neglect: 'Who is caring for our most vulnerable children?: the motivation to foster in child welfare'.
Child Abuse and Neglect 30:10, October 2006, pp 1129-142, USA Responding to the need for more foster families to provide care for increasing numbers of children coming into care, this study was designed to understand the motivations and needs of foster parents in order to improve recruitment...

County proposes pay shift.
Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard The payments that the Lane County commissioners make toward retirement from their own paychecks would instead be paid by the county, under a proposal that the five commissioners may approve in the coming weeks. The move could save the county...