Donny Morrison

Show your support to our ongoing efforts to catalogue the best music writing on the internet by subscribing to the Passion of the Weiss Patreon. Donald Morrison read through thousands of pages of documents provided by the Kansas City Police…

About a week before he was murdered, 20-year-old Damien DeTar told his brother and his girlfriend that he was ready to slow down. He’d been arrested in Florence the month before for meth possession and burglary and spent eight days in jail. It seemed…

By Gina Scalpone, Zack Demars and Donny Morrison Jourdan Horton made her way from Minnesota to Oregon two years ago on the promise of working on a farm near Eugene, a liberal university town in the state’s Willamette Valley. The job fell through, she…

Laura Mills sits in the shade atop a thin piece of mattress padding outside of her blue tent. She’s nursing an Eagle cigarette and staring into a series of trees blocking the sun. She has no plans of moving. It’s May 20, and Mills first rolled her…

The protest started as a reaction to the killing of George Floyd and other acts of police violence against black people that have gone on unstopped in America. As the hour grew late, what had been a peaceful gathering and march became what the Eugene…

This is not the first time Portland lawyer Shenoa Payne has come forward about her alleged 2005 sexual assault. She brings the painful story up again now because the man she alleges was her assailant is now in a race to become Lane County’s top…

Some of the best conversations I’ve ever had were in the tub. In fact, the first time I’d ever been to Springfield Spas and Tanning, an hourly hot tub rental and tanning salon on Main Street in Springfield, was for the sole purpose of therapy. In…

He promised that everything would be paid for. The flight. The hotel. The food and transportation. He also promised that the work wouldn’t take more than a few hours and she’d earn $2,000. She could keep her panties on and it would just be…

“The past Is but the cinders Of the present; The future The smoke That escaped Into the cloud-bound sky.” - Kwesi Brew, Ghanaian poet From the stuffy window seat of our bus, I noticed it peeking through the trees: a large white fortress, atop a giant…

Editor's note on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 2: Frankie Kerner, an arts and culture writer for the Emerald, is a member of the Music Industry Collective and is featured in the above photograph. Kerner had no part in reporting this story or in the…

A well-known Eugene actor and musician has begun performing again, after being identified as as a neo-Nazi last year by the Rose City Antifa. A little over a year ago, Executive Director of The Shedd Institute Jim Ralph told Eugene Weekly that the…

As thousands of runners gathered at Autzen Stadium early Sunday morning, University of Oregon student Justin Gallegos was counting down the minutes before he could run in his second Eugene Marathon. “Last year I ran it in two hours and three…

As a transgender biological anthropologist, Zachary DuBois is always searching for representation. Since receiving his doctorate in 2012, DuBois has been a part of numerous studies, including his latest project in New England, The Transitional…