I implied no such thing as "ignoring"  and your use of quotation marks was deliberately misleading. 
The context, as usual, is all. The R-G article, a year after the dust has settled, btw, and taking no official editorial position on such a critical matter IS disinterest (in the result, which is all that matters). Reporting the fact of it merely is acknowledgment that it occurred. Very different things. I am amazed and angered that Eugene residents, eager to turn out in the thousands to protest a president who had as yet done nothing find no time to even write a letter demanding accountability for 5 MILLION of their tax dollars. They also have been passive in the years-long social erosion (I'm being euphemistic here) of their downtown. Something neurotic in the extreme is present in our citizenry.