Wake up seven days a week with the Cascades Reader. Get local news, event information, podcasts, discounts and more. Sign up now!
Fri. Oct. 8
Bend Business PAC City Council Candidate Forum
The forum is presented by the Chamber of Commerce PAC and will focus on business-oriented issues.
Measure 71
Would have Oregon legislators convene annually each year to tend to the state's business, as opposed to every other year. – Yes.
It's not the money, or the free food (yes councilors are still provided meals before their meetings) and it certainly isn't the prestige that attracts people to the job of city councilor. The long hours, late meetings and the scrutiny of an entire city aren't terrific incentives either. But we still manage to get a few city councilors who are willing to serve simply because they believe in keeping Bend a great place to live while helping the city meet the growing challenges of the 21st century.
The Bend city council is a non-partisan board, but be assured, it has its ideological divides. That's why the race for Bend City Council Seat 7 is so important this year. The seat has been held by former Mayor Oran Teater since his controversial appointment to the seat two years ago when the council deadlocked on a successor to Chris Telfer. Since that time, Teater has helped cement the conservative majority on the city council, a block that includes realtor Tom Greene, Mayor Kathie Eckman, and attorney and former Greg Walden staff member Jeff Eager.
The stories coming out of Mount Bachelor Academy were shocking. Kids being deprived of sleep, cursed at by other students and staff members, being made to take part in humiliating “role-playing” exercises – including, in at least one case, having to perform a “lap dance” for another student.
The stories were bad enough, and apparently credible enough, for the state Department of Human Services to order the high-priced private school shut down in November 2009.
Jeez, Sorry for Partying
If you're in a college fraternity, there are a few activities in which you will almost certainly find yourself involved. You will consume beer by placing the keg tap directly in your mouth as your “bros” hold your feet up in the air. You will clothe yourself exclusively in T-shirts celebrating parties you and your “bros” have previously facilitated. And, if you're really, really lucky, you and/or your “bros” will douse a couch in lighter fluid and light it aflame as you stand awestruck in its glow with a smile on your face and a Busch Light in your hand.
What have you done for your local parks, rivers and wildlife recently? Not much opportunity to help? Here's a perfect chance for you to do something truly meaningful for these things we all cherish. In November, you can vote “yes” on Measure 76.
As a New Yorker, who has lived in Texas for many years and then moved to Bend two years ago…I found Jim Anderson's little “comment” (The Natural World, 9-29) about Texas offensive. It certainly had nothing to do with your subject matter. Texas, nor Texans may not be your cup of tea (java) but it is just this type of Texas bashing that infuriates me because it is usually done out of little/no knowledge regarding the state or its people. It comes from a place of insecurity or ignorance of the people or the state. I love living in Bend….it was chosen….but some of the thinking is backward and uneducated when it comes to the rest of the world.
I have read the lengthy letter of concern from Lisa Deanne Carlson, and I'm sorry, but as an entertainer and self-titled DRAG QUEEN, I don't see how my lifestyle and struggles, obstacles and challenges adversely affect hers, and I surely would never ask her or the Trans Community to cease doing what they do because it affected me or my journey, which it does not.
For the past eleven years, since my wife and I became full time residents of Bend, we have enjoyed freeloading at the monthly art walks. Have we ever bought art on these occasions?Maybe ten small Christmas gifts and one ceramic piece that I accidentally broke. All of which were probably of far less value than all the wine and snacks we’ve consumed.
Get the best of The Source - Bend, Oregon directly in your email inbox.
Sending to:
