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Jeff Merkley is pointing the finger at Gordon Smith for the meltdown of the American capitalist system, and Gordon Smith is pointing the finger right back at … Ron Wyden?
Home prices in Bend continue to drop, but we’re still the second most overvalued real estate market in the country, according to the international economic analysis firm Global Insight.
The buzz in the Bend blogosphere about suicides among local developers has gotten loud enough for The Oregonian to devote a lengthy story to the topic Saturday.
Renaissance Homes, one of Oregon's biggest home builders, will soon file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, The Oregonian is reporting.
An intriguing note from the world of science: People may hold conservative political views because they're hard-wired to be more fearful than liberals, according to a team of eight researchers.
A poll out this week shows Democratic state treasurer candidate Ben Westlund has opened up a double-digit lead over Republican rival Allen Alley, but there's less there than meets the eye.
Holy cowboy boots, tank tops and leather vests, Blender readers, what a show on Wednesday night at the Midtown. It was Mr.
Willamette Week is saying it has proof that Sen. Gordon Smith's family-owned frozen food company has employed at least some illegal immigrants.
America already has the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the FedEx Orange Bowl and the Allstate Sugar Bowl - not to mention the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl, the AT&T Cotton Bowl and the Chick-fil-A (formerly Peach) Bowl. So why shouldn't Bend-LaPine schools let businesses (for a price, of course) attach their names to athletic fields and other facilities?
Weird as it sounds, the school board actually is kicking that idea around.
An American Band in Jamaica, part I.Taking your all-white, six-piece reggae band to Jamaica is a bold move.
It certainly takes some balls. In some respects, this is akin to
growing up in Norway crafting since the age of seven what you believe
is an authentic and high-quality country western act, then taking your
show across the Atlantic to Nashville. So, it was with a bold stride
that drummer Chris O'Brian and the five other members of Rochester, New
York's Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad arrived in the birthplace of
reggae a little over a year ago.
"As a large reggae ensemble of
Caucasians from upstate New York, we tried not to let ourselves get
singled out for playing this music that has spread all over the world
in a short amount of time. We don't take it heavy, we don't take it
lightly, we just don't even take it when people come with their funny
look on their face," O'Brian says rather assertively while driving on
the Massachusetts Turn Pike on the way to what will be GPGDS' second
festival appearance of the day.
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