Daniel Pearson

Daniel Pearson is a seven-time award-winning journalist, a two-time ADDY award winner for marketing and promotion, and a former winner of the Oregon Coastal Writer’s Series award for fiction. He is a die-hard Atlanta Braves fan, and a long-time listener of Phish and the Grateful Dead.
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Oregon GOP’s #1

Bend Sen. Tim Knopp holds the future of the state Senate Republican Caucus
by Daniel Pearson

After the Oregon Legislature approved $400 million in new spending at the Dec. 13 special session—notably for renters facing a winter eviction and farmers harmed by drought— lawmakers and political players praised the negotiating skills of Sen. Tim Knopp (R-Bend) as the person responsible for convincing Senate Republicans to approve four bills whose chief sponsors […]

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Ending a Health Care Loophole

A bill that would stop insurance providers from excluding those with pre-existing conditions passes the Oregon Senate—despite many obstacles
by Daniel Pearson

The passage of a bill by the Oregon Senate is not typically news in and of itself, but in this era of GOP caucus slowdowns and staged walkouts to hold up voting, standoffs between parties, a 2020 session where only three bills passed into law, and a 2021 session where, nearly four months into this […]

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Bill Would Provide Funds for Mobile Mental Health Crisis Assessment Teams

For 17 years, Deschutes County has operated a program similar to the one proposed by the Oregon legislature
by Daniel Pearson

It’s a Tuesday evening and Nicole Von Laven, a behavioral health specialist with Deschutes County’s Mobile Crisis Assessment Team, answers a phone call from Bend Police Sgt. Elizabeth Lawrence that the veteran officer placed to the county’s mental health crisis hotline. Lawrence tells Von Laven she’s at the home of a family whose adult son […]

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I’ll Trade You Mine If You Trade Me Yours

Deschutes Trade Exchange offers alternative currency for local businesses
Daniel Pearson

As a business owner, would you trade your services to a mechanic for car care rather than cash? How about designing a logo in exchange for an accountant managing your books? Or booking a hotel room by painting a house? Last August, Thom Gates, a 33-year resident of Central Oregon, founded the Deschutes Trade Exchange […]

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Turn On, Tune In and Try Not to Drop Out: The slow-developing shake up in the local TV market

It's a little after 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, and KOHD-TV General Manager Jerry Upham just learned of the news story that would dominate
Daniel Pearson

It's a little after 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, and KOHD-TV General Manager Jerry Upham just learned of the news story that would dominate all U.S. media for the next week-or-so – the kind of story the 23-year TV news veteran wishes his station could break to Central Oregon viewers.
“Michael Jackson just died,” Upham said. “It's showing up on the New York Times web site but nowhere else just yet.” He checks the web site of KOHD's main competitor, KTVZ, the long-standing NBC affiliate owned by the News-Press & Gazette Co. of St. Joseph, Mo., to see if the story appeared on its web site yet. It had not. A couple of hours later, KOHD broadcast a man-on-the-street piece in downtown Bend with people's reaction to the news that the King of Pop was dead.

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