H. Bruce Miller

KATU-TV in Portland is reporting a stunning development in the Oregon Democratic Senate race: Outsider Steve Novick is leading insider Jeff Merkley by double digits in a recently completed poll.

Under the headline "You Knew It Had to Happen," Jake at the Utterly Boring blog reports that T-shirts commemorating Bend's Famous Pregnant Man will go on sale soon.

At his campaign appearance at Bend High last week, Bill Clinton told a hair-raising horror story to illustrate how screwed up America's health care system is. An uninsured pregnant woman in Ohio couldn't afford prenatal care and was turned away by a hospital because she couldn't pay $100 up front, Clinton said. Later, she died after delivering a stillborn child.

When The EYE spotted an "In My View" column by somebody named Stephen Williams in this morning's Bulletin, bells went off.

Are people in Bend crazy? It's hard to draw any other conclusion from the spectacle of more than 100 of them standing outside in the cold and rain last week waiting for the grand opening of Trader Joe's.

Stop-Loss, the eagerly anticipated anti-Iraq war movie by writer-director Kimberly Pierce, opened today to generally positive reviews around the country, but a lukewarm reception in The Bulletin's "GO" magazine.

News flash: Former President Bill Clinton will be making a campaign stop in Bend on Monday, the Hillary Clinton campaign office just confirmed.

Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley is doing a bit of push-polling to try to find out what lines of attack would be most effective against his chief rival for the Democratic Senate nomination, Steve Novick, The Associated Press reports.

The Democratic Party of Oregon has put out a brutal video slamming our own Congressman Greg Walden for letting a million dollars in Republican campaign funds disappear on his watch.

It sounds like something that might have been published by the late, lamented Weekly World News, but apparently it's for real: A Bend man is pregnant.