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I n a past life I was a yoga teacher. If a past life was measured in years, and those years were three. You know, one of the snobby, Lululemon pant wearing, “I can’t believe she didn’t give me 10 minutes of full savasana” complainers. Or the huffy, “I just can’t find a Hatha class […]
Seattle Activist Group Leads First Successful Campaign to Defund Police In September 2016 the Block the Bunker campaign in Seattle was the first to persuade US city officials to divest from police funding and allocate more tax dollars for community services. In summer 2016, a coalition of antiracist grassroots organizers protested the city’s plans to […]
Think this year’s news reports have been wacky? Well, you haven’t even seen it all. Here’s more censored stories from Project Censored: The Top 25 Tories You Probably Missed This year. Law Enforcement Surveillance of Phone Records In cooperation with AT&T, US federal, state, and local law enforce-ment agencies have been secretly collecting telephone records […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., Medicare for All Act is now backed by 16 Democratic senators, and co-sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. With it, talks of universal health care are making headlines again, and actually gaining steam. “We’ve made tremendous strides in expanding access to health care across our nation, but many Americans still are […]
Update: 9:26pm: Long-time manager, Tony Dimitriades, confirms the singer’s death on behalf of his family to CNN. ** This is a developing story. Earlier reports stating Tom Petty has died are now unconfirmed as the cited source from the LAPD say they have no jurisdiction in the case. We will update once a statement is released.* […]
A crisp fall day became even chillier this morning when Ian King, 19, allegedly stabbed his father, Anthony King, 57, in the back. Bend Police responded to the 21000 block of Woodhaven Avenue when the elder King called to report the alleged crime after incurring the stab wounds. Officers from Bend PD say Anthony left the […]
Residents of Central Oregon witnessed a rather unusual scene yesterday, when Central Oregon Drug Enforcement teams descended on neighborhoods throughout Madras and Redmond, raiding homes and arresting nine. On Sept. 27, a joint operation involving the FBI and DEA, charged nine with allegedly aiding in a major drug ring in the Central Oregon area. The […]
W hen I first walked into Pfeifer and Associates, I thought I had mistakenly gone into the tattoo shop next door. Funky, brightly colored walls, industrial counters and smiley, pierced and tattooed folk greeted my confused self. Sandwiched behind the Domino Room, this unassuming office space is home to bubbly, no-nonsense Sally Pfeifer, owner and […]
Right now, a Dutch guy is bathing in Carol’s bathroom. It’s attached to her master bedroom in the mid-century bungalow she shares with her elderly mother. “He seems to take two showers a day,” she laughs. “Maybe it’s a European thing.” In her 50s, Carol—who asked to be known only by her first name—was born […]
I t claims more lives annually than car accidents or gun violence, tarnishing lives, ruining marriages, emptying bank accounts and wrecking careers. And with the Institute of Medicine reporting that 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, the use of prescription opioids— and the subsequent addiction and fallout it may cause—has quadrupled since 1999. With […]
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