Are you willing to see Tumalo Falls unnecessarily depleted? Are you willing to allow our pristine watershed—the source of Bend’s drinking water and the lifeblood of our fish & wildlife—to be permanently and irreversibly harmed? Do you want higher than necessary water rates? If not, vote for Sally Russell, Doug Knight, Barb Campbell and Jim Clinton for Bend City Council. This will ensure a majority on the council who will support an economically smart water system as well as an environmentally beneficial one.
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Posted inOpinion
GERI HAUSER ASKS FOR YOUR VOTE FOR STATE SENATE
My name is Geri Hauser and I am running for State Senate. I am not a career politician or a lobbyist. I’m a wife, step-mother and grandmother who cares about our community. We need regular people like myself fighting for progressive values in Salem.
Our elected officials will be working on three critical issues in the next session: jobs, education and health care. If I win, we will move forward in these important areas. If my opponent wins, he’ll lead us backwards and further increase the partisan gridlock in Salem.
Posted inNews
Sneak Attack
How big business wants to shrink the electorate
Astonishing. Remarkable. Sinister. Those words come up again and again in reference to the wave of voter identification laws that has swept through more than 30 Republican-dominated state legislatures in recent years. These bills sound innocuous enough. For instance, when a voter shows up to the polls on Election Day, he or she must present valid photo ID in order to cast a ballot.
The goal, proponents say, is to combat in-person voter fraud—claiming to be someone you’re not and entering a vote in their name. But study after study, including an exhaustive investigation by the Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has found almost no evidence that in-person voter fraud occurs. Culling through 5,000 documents over 10 weeks, a News21 study found only 10 cases of in-person voter fraud since 2000.
Posted inCulture
Our Picks For 10/31-11/08
Events happening in the area that we are sure you will enjoy.
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band with Harley Bourbon and Boxcar
String Band
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Everything about Rev. Peyton’s band is big. The reverend is big, as is his beard. His players are big. His sound is big. And the soulfulness of his hillbilly Americana and blues music is big. Damn big. The Big Damn Band, with their slide guitar, upright bass and washboard, are rolling in from the back roads of southern Indiana, but don’t let their size or the Reverend’s growling voice scare you—they often have big damn smiles plastered across their faces. Local rockabilly ass-kickers, Harley Bourbon and Boxcar String Band, open the show. All Ages. $10 at Bendticket.com. 10 p.m. Domino Room, 51 NW Greenwood Ave.
Posted inCulture
The Nature of Words Festival
Where writers are rock stars and prose reigns supreme
Anyone under the impression that every event in Bend involves lightning-fast athletes or souvenir beer-sampling mugs, hasn’t spent enough time investigating the Nature of Words, a five-day celebration of all things literary.
The annual festival runs from Nov. 7 through 11, with a packed schedule of events featuring authors, poets, essayists and storytellers from all walks of life. If attendance from previous years is any indication, many events are likely to sell out.
Posted inCulture
Sprawl Together Now: Cloud Atlas chops compelling individual stories into a grandiose cacophony
Tom Hanks and Halle Berry star in the recent film Cloud Atlas.
There is nobility in striving for a cause that seems foolhardy, toward a goal that, if reached, could bring greater joy and understanding to the world. That’s one of the many ideas bubbling through the sprawling Cloud Atlas, yet it’s also pretty clearly a way of thinking about the project itself.
David Mitchell’s 2004 novel seems like it should be unfilmable, with its six semi-stand-alone stories that span centuries from the 1840s to a 23rd-century post-apocalypse.
You’d have to be slightly nuts to think three different directors—The Matrix trilogy’s Andy and Lana Wachowski, and Run Lola Run’s Tom Tykwer—could wrangle that material into something that works as a cohesive three-hour cinematic experience instead of a frantic, over-ambitious cacophany.
Posted inOutside
Kooky ‘Cross: The six craziest things I saw at the Halloween Cross Crusade races
What a spectacle.
If you made your way to the Old Mill this weekend, amid the music, cowbells and laughter you would have heard loudspeakers announcing the arrival of the Cross Crusade cyclocross races, staged just outside the Deschutes Brewery warehouse on Saturday and Sunday.
I was there drinking Deschutes Fresh Hop IPA, handing out beer-feeds to thirsty racers and heckling, cheering and jeering in an attempt to absorb the awesomeness and hilarity that surrounds the popular event.
Posted inCulture
Our Picks 10/25 – 10/31
What you should do this week.
see below for more on Amy Goodman
Bend WebCAM
thursday 25-friday 26
Two days of enlightening presentations for professionals, as told by some of the biggest and best brains in the web and creative marketing world. The keynote speaker and oft-quoted webmaster expert Danny Sullivan, founder and editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, is kicking off the event on Thursday morning.
Posted inSpecial Issues & Guides
Our Crack Election Guide: Measures
This is how you should vote.
Measure 77
Yes!
Approval of this measure would amend the Oregon Constitution to allow the governor to declare a catastrophic disaster and call for a Legislative session to properly address needs.
Everyone agrees: Vote yes.
Posted inOpinion
Victor is the Choice for Position 1
VICTOR IS THE CHOICE FOR POSITION 1
I read with interest Foster Fell’s letter in support of Barb Campbell for Bend City Council, Position One. I appreciate Fell’s advocacy for his candidate, but was a little surprised that he found it necessary to take an unwarranted swipe at her opponent, Victor Chudowsky.
