The Latest Socialist Threat: Carbon Monoxide Detectors
Looks like conservatives in Oregon have found something else to get outraged about - government-mandated carbon monoxide detectors.
Seattle Times Joins the Kick-Bend-Around Crowd
Kick us when we're down, why don'tcha? As if the situation (economy-wise and weather-wise) wasn't dismal enough in Bend already, the Seattle Times takes a brutal shot at us on today's front page.
Public Employees and the Politics of Resentment
Oregonian blogger Jeff Mapes predicts, no doubt correctly, that public employee salaries and benefits are likely to come under attack again in these tough times.
Tea Partiers Brewing a “Revolution” — They Hope
Right-wingers all over America - including little old Bend, Oregon - are gearing up for their big "Tax Day Tea Party" next week, and the rhetoric is getting pretty hot.
Will Hard Times Kill the Platypus?
Oregon State University's Cascades Campus in Bend might be near its last gasp, if our local state representatives are reading the signals in Salem right.
On The Upswing
We’re not ready to call the Great Bend Restaurant Shakeout over just yet, but lately we’ve been hearing more about restaurants opening than closing. Following a wholesale massacre that brought down dining titans Merenda, Deep, as well as Volo, Bistro Corlise and, earlier, Blue Fish Bistro, the downtown scene is poised for a rebound of…
Spring Cleaning: Making last tracks in the Badlands Wilderness
The Friends of the Badlands Wilderness Study Area were racing against time. Monday, March 30 had dawned, bright and crisp. The day had already promised to brighten further, as we had received word the President was going to sign the newly passed Omnibus Wilderness Bill, passing full wilderness protection to the Badlands Wilderness Study Area.…
PD: Perfectly Dutiful
This week's letter comes from Dean Warner who reminds us of an old adage about people in glass houses. Regardless of what you think about leash laws, it's a pretty solid take.
Resort Impacts Aren’t Covered
As reported in The Source, Thornburgh Destination Resort west of Redmond may enjoy a $46 million dollar subsidy by Deschutes County taxpayers by the time they are fully built out. The developers are denying that is the case, but the research I have done on traffic impacts in the Tumalo area tend to support the…
Back in the Sky: More Oregon condors going free
California Condor, Topa Topa, great, great grandaddy of all the condors flying free today. The Oregon Zoo can fly a feather in their cap on their condor recovery program as the second group of young condors raised in the zoo's Jonsson Center for Wildlife are on the wing.
Three California condors from the Oregon Zoo…
Madagascar Quip In Poor Taste
Your attempt to be clever in response to the recent coup in Madagascar was in extremely poor taste (Upfront, March 19). There has already been a bloodbath, with over 100 people being killed by government troops, and thousands injured.
Swap and Tax: On being a gearhead in the New Economy
Dodging gates and taxes.The stock market is in the tank. Your 401K is now a 201K. A friend of mine bought a Westside Bend house for $99,000 about 5 years ago and sold it a year later for $175,000. That person resold it at the peak of the bubble, for $275,000. Last week, I saw…
Speak No Evil: Latest Resident Evil incarnation moves into co-op play
The last Mccain supporters are caught on tape.When the man shuffled around the corner, I knew he was infected. It was his eyes-flooded with black as though they were bleeding ink. And like most infected, he was slow. Before he could swing his axe, I braced myself and trained the laser sight of my pistol…
On Stage: Easter Fro-Day
I was gonna lock the door, but then I got high…Easter Sunday. It's a day for crowded churches followed by crowded brunches and topped off with a whole hell of a lot of ham followed by a slow-moving Monday morning. This Easter in Bend you can add one more thing to your holiday docket and…
Redmond Board Blew It
What a pathetic choice the Redmond School Board made last Wednesday evening. These are incredibly challenging times with increasing unemployment in Central Oregon, and the decision the school board made is outrageous.
And the Youth Shall Lead: We Are Brontosaurus’ sack lunch indie rock adventure
Dylan Howe is eating what appears to be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at a table in a cramped Northwest Crossing coffee shop while talking about his band, We Are Brontosaurus. In a few minutes, the power trio's guitarist will also dig into a stick of string cheese - a staple of any sack…
Cats Need Leashes, Too
Jim Anderson's latest article addresses an extremely important issue that more people need to be aware of, and overall I agree with him (despite my being an avid cat lover and him obviously having issues with them; hence the 10 pound bell comment). But regarding his statement of locking cats up being the "only way…
OUr Picks for the Week of 4/8-4/16
The Source Fiction Issue Reading Party thursday 9 We thought we'd say one more time, because we can, that we're having a reading featuring all of the writers featured in our fiction issue. All five writers will be in attendance and reading from their published pieces and more. 7pm Thursday, Apr 9. Between the Covers,…
Waiting for the Sounds of Summer: Bend’s summer music landscape fights to maintain its reputation
The weather in Bend last Memorial Day wasn't ideal for being outdoors in any capacity. Actually, that's an understatement. Save a freak snowstorm, there wasn't much that could have made the weather worse than it was - cold temperatures, gusting winds, and downpours followed by a lingering drizzle erased any memory of the week prior,…
ODOT’s Iffy Official Story
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Planet of the Apes
In response to the article in I Love Television, "Escape From Eden of the Chimps," whomever wrote this article really needs to get a few things straight before actually opening your mouth and writing these thoughts down. To begin with, if you are going to reference an animal, get the species correct! It is ridiculous…
Fast Forward: Fast & Furious uses old model and broken parts to predictable results
Apparently the way to make the fourth sequel is to take out "The" from the title and cast all the main actors from the 2001 original. But this movie is such a predictable hunk o' cheese that I can only hope that the video game is more fun. Neither the plot nor the dialogue graduates…
Dirty Jobs: Sunshine Cleaning scrubs away memories of lesser movies
Oh my god, and he left the toilet seat up, too!The unemployment picture may need to get a little worse before most of us would resort to cleaning up blood and organ tissue from crime scenes for a paycheck. Although I think we're getting there.
Sunshine Cleaning is a film about a pair of sisters…
The Efficiency
It would be extremely efficient if the bar was like a coffee shop and there was one line where people ordered and one place where they picked up. No one would ever get missed, everyone would wait the exact same amount of time for a drink, and nobody would ever wait for change or a…
The Efficiency
It would be extremely efficient if the bar was like a coffee shop and there was one line where people ordered and one place where they picked up. No one would ever get missed, everyone would wait the exact same amount of time for a drink, and nobody would ever wait for change or a…
Eat, Drink and Learn: Get a culinary education at Allyson’s Kitchen
Chop to it.Ever wonder why your cooking doesn't come out as good as a restaurant chef's dishes? Cooking classes can help shed light on tricks of the trade that turn raw ingredients into delicious meals. I recently attended a cooking demonstration held at Allyson's Kitchen in the Old Mill, and was amazed at how many…
Eat, Drink and Learn: Get a culinary education at Allyson’s Kitchen
Chop to it.Ever wonder why your cooking doesn’t come out as good as a restaurant chef’s dishes? Cooking classes can help shed light on tricks of the trade that turn raw ingredients into delicious meals. I recently attended a cooking demonstration held at Allyson’s Kitchen in the Old Mill, and was amazed at how many…
From Soul to Metal in 24 Hours
OK, so Bend's music scene might not be the most diverse in the Northwest, but don't tell that to Team Sound Check, which went from a club full of aging Deadheads to a raucous bar packed with metal heads in the span of 24 hours. How's that for genre shock? Thursday night, we were at…
We’re Broke and We’re Miserable
The American economy is in a miserable state, and Oregon is the most miserable state in the entire country - at least if you go by MainStreet.com's calculations.
Bringing Back Sobriety Checkpoints
"A man's house is his castle," the English jurist Sir Edward Coke declared in 1644.
America's founders put it into more ornate language almost two centuries later: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall…
Ron Jeremy vs. Star Wars: The Dear Leader launches one, the Rockefeller cheeseburger, and more
Editor's note: The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from somewhere between Burns and Ashland, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
Obama Spreads His Wings The tour de force that is our new President visited Turkey, where locals made "Barack-clava"…
