Oregon has “the highest levels of violence against people who were unhoused we have ever documented,” according to the National Coalition for the Homeless 2024 Hate Crimes Report.

This is KEPW-LP 97.3 FM, broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon, and simulcast online at KEPW.org. And now: the news. (Newsday theme) This is KEPW Newsday End of Week Edition for Thursday the 30th and Friday the 31st of October, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday: The governor of Oregon has declared a food emergency. A police response interrupts a crime in progress in Salem.

Celine Swenson Harris: "It doesn't call on you to invest additional dollars. It provides people with an opportunity to own their home. It's also a proven solution for other housing types here in Oregon and for these housing types in other states." 

Jacob Trewe: The Budget Committee passed a measure that by the end of October, we'd have a presentation from the city manager about how we'd fund $2.5 million worth of alternative response funding such as CAHOOTS, including from the community safety payroll tax.

This is KEPW-LP 97.3 FM broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon, and simulcast online at KEPW.org. And now: the news. (Newsday theme) This is KEPW Newsday Top of the Week Edition for Tuesday the 28th and Wednesday the 29th of October, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday: We have deputies and a K-9 in Blachly arresting a man after an assault and a house fire.

Kaarin Knudson: The mayor will cast the deciding vote to move this forward to public hearing, and the motion passes with a vote of 5-4.

Community rights groups will host former Rep. Marty Wilde, who will suggest three ways our elected representatives might better reflect the people's interests.

City Recorder Katie LaSala noted that the current practice—prioritizing official representatives from boards, commissions, and neighborhood groups—began under Mayor Kitty Piercy.

This is KEPW-LP, 97.3 FM, broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon, and simulcast online at KEPW.org. And now: the news. (Newsday theme) This is KEPW Newsday End Of Week Edition for Thursday the 23rd and Friday the 24th of October, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday: A blind man is dragged by federal agents into a Portland ICE facility. …

Lane County District Attorney Christopher Parosa: This is a well-funded, highly organized crime syndicate that we are dealing with.

Presenter: Lane County recognized employees for a major multiyear multidepartment property cleanup. Oct. 21, County Administrator Steve Mokrohisky: Steve Mokrohisky (Lane County, administrator): Compliance Officer Amber Watson, is here. We're also recognizing Compliance Officer Jane Burgess. I don't think she's able to join us today. We have Engineering and Construction Services Division Analyst Mike Davis. And then we're also recognizing Assistant County Counsel Marcus Vejar.

The report included a broken window, tampering with the brakes on a woman's car, two cases involving display of a noose, and physical violence against an unhoused woman, a gay couple downtown, and a man under the Ferry Street bridge.

Nathan Robinson said the book distills and summarizes an argument Noam Chomsky made over 50 years of public life: The disjunction between the rhetoric of U.S. benevolence around the world versus the reality of violence, aggression, and domination.

Presenter:  Join the club at the Springfield Thunderegg Rock Club 67th Annual Rock and Mineral Show this weekend. It's at the Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St. in Springfield. That's Saturday, Oct. 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. You can find driving directions on their website, SpringfieldThundereggRockClub.org…

This is KEPW-LP 97.3 FM broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon, and simulcast online at KEPW.org. And now: the news. This is KEPW Newsday Top Of The Week Edition for Tuesday the 21st and Wednesday the 22nd of October, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday: The Trump administration notifies states that SNAP benefits are not coming in November. Also, early morning shots fired call results in two people being arrested.

Jensina Hawkins: We would like to see that coordinated statement to our community saying that hatred, targeting, terrorizing is not allowed for any demographic. 

Meredith Tufts: I am here as a parent, and speaking on behalf of other families who feel that tightness in our chest in smoke season and thinking ahead to what climate is going to bring to our community in our lives and in our children's lives.

Beck Bentz: Flock "funnels intimate data of our comings and goings to some of the most punitive and bloodthirsty elements of law enforcement across the country. It offers up Eugene residents on a golden platter to wolves. Can you imagine if the Nazis had access to something like Flock? Oh my God, they would have loved Flock. That is the gravity of our situation."

Debbie Williamson Smith: Today we are going to show the world that we disagree with the horrific and illegal actions taken by the Trump regime. We stand with immigrants. We stand with the trans community. We stand with labor. We stand with democracy, humanity, and dare I say, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

This is KEPW-LP, 97.3 FM, broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon, and simulcast online at KEPW.org. And now: the news. (Newsday theme) This is KEPW Newsday End Of Week Edition for Thursday the 16th and Friday the 17th of October, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday: An early morning FBI raid at a Eugene apartment complex disturbs the local residents.

Sue Barnhart: The U.S. military releases more carbon dioxide into the air than any other organization, any other country, any other military. They're the biggest polluters.

Huckleberry: Amazon is a prime driver of ICE's deportations, by providing ICE with data storage services. They're helping expand the growth of their surveillance data accumulation, arrest, imprisonment, and deportation of immigrants.

Sam Cook: All of the institutions and social safety nets that were built in this country in the 1930s were built by militant and politically independent labor unions. The eight-hour workday, the five-day work week, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, these were all reforms that were fought for and won by socialists and by organized and militant labor.

Elijah, Zach, Steve Zorn, and Rogue will perform the songs Fentanyl, Adelaide, D.I.D., I Need Better Meds, and more from their album, Safe Place.

Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner: I think what we've identified through our experience in the Police Commission is a vulnerability amongst all of our boards and commissions.