To put it mildly, I was outraged when I learned that the City, in including a 1% budget for the arts in the new City Hall project, decided to give the (approx. $250,000) grant to a Portland outfit.  I wonder why there is not an active protest from my artist-friends--I too am a Eugene artist, and ready to stand up-- about this huge misappropriation.  Certainly it must be stopped before it occurs.  And certainly we must deal with such scandals before we as artists ask for more.