How we reported the Garcia Lopez family's story

A dad deported. A family fractured.

Misael Garcia-Lopez built a life in Eugene. An ICE arrest sent him back to Mexico. His family had to decide where to call home.

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There were many things that I wanted us to create when we built the Lookout Eugene-Springfield newsroom. One was a culture of saying: “Yes.” Maybe it was because I’ve been told “no” so much in my career that I believe if someone has a good idea, we need to do everything we can to say […]

Fire at low-income housing complex sends one person to hospital

One man was taken to the hospital with severe burns following a fire that broke out on the fourth floor of Bridges on Broadway, a low-income housing complex in downtown Eugene, according to Battalion Chief Riley Martinka. The Saturday, Aug. 1, fire comes nearly a year after its opening, Aug. 21, 2025.  Wyatt Penrod, a […]

On Iran, Trump is incapable of learning from history | Letter to the editor

I find it is time to remind everyone about war. Herbert Hoover said, “Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.”  Smedley Butler’s 1935 book “War is a Racket” exposed how military conflicts primarily serve corporate profits and the expense of soldiers and taxpayers. Lt. Col. Henry Blake of […]

Free festivals, a blackberry bicycle ride and more August foodie events

Whether you’re noshing on Swedish meatballs at the Scandinavian Festival in Junction City, or enjoying a slice of post-bike-ride blackberry pie, August has plenty of delicious — and free — family-friendly events to cap off the summer.