Source Weekly

Smart cities invest in their economic strengths.
Port towns invest in infrastructure for shipping and transportation.  High tech cities invest in intellectual capital.  Industrial cities build utilities and factories.  Agricultural cities invest in irrigation and processing systems.
While we are fortunate in Bend to have a continually diversifying economy, the foundation of our economy is, and will likely continue to be, the extraordinary lifestyle offered here.  From clean air, beautiful mountains, and sunny skies, to great parks, flowing rivers, and abundant trails, Bend’s extraordinary lifestyle is what separates our city from “Any Town U.S.A.”  It’s also the leading catalyst for long-term investment into our community.

In response to recent banner hangings in Bend protesting old growth forest liquidation by the EXF timber sale on Lookout Mountain in the Pringle Falls Experimental Forest of the Deschutes National Forest, the Forest Service made many false claims.
The EXF experimental study design is a pretext for allowing large-scale, old growth forest logging when there are few large blocks of old growth forest left on the National Forest outside roadless and Wilderness areas. Scientists have known for decades that thinning trees increases the radial growth of remaining trees. There is no need to demonstrate this in one of the last blocks of relatively undisturbed old growth Ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forest on the Deschutes.

Has anyone else noticed that the jumbo political signs popping up around Central Oregon for Republican candidates (Tim Knopp, Jason Conger, Gene Whisnant, etc.) fail to mention their political affiliation?
I would be naive to assume they are so ashamed of what the Republican party has become that they want to distance themselves from it.

As I write this, the Sept 13 issue of the Source lies to the left of my keyboard and the Sept. 3 issue of American Medical News (the newsletter of the American Medical Association), sits to the right.  The Source starts with a letter, “Help Stop the Fracking of the Newberry Volcano,” which outlines possible side effects of fracking Newberry, including earthquakes, groundwater pollution via the release of naturally occurring elements, and groundwater pollution by the injection of chemicals designed to disrupt underground geology.

The Herbalist’s medicine’s can be a rich source of potential knowledge, but blindly trusting an herbalist’s recommendations for treatment can be risky. A physician’s arsenal can also be a huge benefit to a patient, but just like the herbalist, blindly trusting a physician’s suggestions  can have negative consequences. Regardless of perspective and opinion, people are likely to continue to incorporate medical solutions that are outside of pharmacology. Therefore it is very important for physicians and patients to become informed and participate in the collection and recording of scientific data specific to non-pharmaceutical treatments.