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With a melodic depth that catches the ear, Ryan Costello remains true to his roots as a member of indie rock band, the Oaks. Costello's use of 12 different instruments creates a soulful arrangement that sounds similar to that of Sufjan Stevens, who is a clear influence on Costello's most personal album yet.
I never thought I'd say this, but wolf recovery in the West has been the most successful program ever accomplished under the Endangered Species Act. Thanks to the efforts of the U.
The end of the world is nigh. We're just polishing the brass on the Titanic. This is all going down. That got your attention, right? Apocalypse sells. FOX News feeds a diet of disaster – the swine flu epidemic, nuclear arms in North Korea – into our living rooms. The Apocalypse used to be so far off, now it's always just around the next corner.
The economic crash has ushered in more doom and gloom with massive numbers of unemployed and homeless. Bend boomed big and the bust hit hard. A dire situation as this either brings communities closer together or pushes people further apart, getting us to hole-up-alone-in-a-bunker mentality. Locally there are a few folks who want to take a practical approach to problems we're facing and make a step towards getting Bend back on track.
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from where your relatives and America started – Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown, Virginia – on assignment for Or-Bust.
I write this letter in response to Wayne Bredtze's letter “Government Can Be Good” in last week's issue. At first glance federal loans and grants indeed do seem like an essential part of higher education, though upon closer inspection they are quite counter productive.
Props to Dr. Nathan Boddie for his piece in favor of health care reform.
Dear Boot,
So that's what's wrong with Bend? Goose poop that hinders using the park? You're given a column to bitch about anything you want and you pick geese? What's wrong with you?
You wasted half a page and go off about how bird droppings 'ruin' the park? And then you mock the people who try and fix it!
Well I know life sucks, however complaining about bird shit should be really low on the list. You could have used that space to actually tell your readership something useful.
Last week The Boot opined that tavern owners would only take a $6,300 hit if their share of video lottery game revenues drops from roughly 24% to 15%. I suspect that The Boot may have attended the Timothy Geithner/Charles Rangel School of Fuzzy Math and/or he/she got a head start sampling some of the delicious barrel-aged brew for the Little Woody festival.
The early stunning vistas of beautiful America gave rise to some of the best known and most evocative writings, song and poetry of this wide and sweeping land, a land to the earliest of inhabitants and those who came after, of wildness, diamond-blue skies and waves that tumbled onto golden, unsullied beaches.
“America the Beautiful” contains some of those soaring words:
“O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain!”
The Wilderness Act of 1964 recognizes wilderness, “.
Dear Mr. Miller,
I hope this letter finds you in good health and enjoying your food and plain beer.
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