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Apr 30 - May 6, 2009

Vol. 13, No. 18

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Local News

Photographic Proof: Obama's a Wimp!

It would be a shame if Republicans went extinct - they give us so many great laughs.

By The Source Staff
May 2, 2009
Local News

Bulletin Employees Hit With Pay Cut

The tough times that have battered newspapers across the country have hit home in Bend: Staffers at The Bulletin and its parent company, Western Communications

By The Source Staff
May 1, 2009
Local News

Cessna: Another Big-League Dream Has Flown

Another one bites the dust: Cessna announced yesterday that it's laying off the last 200 workers at its Bend manufacturing plant and closing the operation

By The Source Staff
Apr 30, 2009
Local News

This Labor Practice Is Enough to Make You Sick

How do you feel about a restaurant worker with swine flu sneezing and coughing on your food when he or she prepares it or brings

By The Source Staff
Apr 29, 2009
Local News

Another Shot at Skyline: Last-minute legislative deal could preserve the forest

Call it a Hail Mary pass, but a last-minute legislative maneuver has rekindled the possibility of a deal to preserve Skyline Forest in exchange for

By Eric Flowers
Apr 29, 2009
Local News

It's Not Just About the Five Bucks: An area campground becomes a recreation fee case study

Up past Smith Rock State Park, on a road lined with farmland and flanked by pine-covered hills on each side, there's a small brown sign

By Mike Bookey
Apr 29, 2009

Editorial

Earthquakes, Outbreaks and Fly Overs: The Flu Pandemic, NFL Draft, Specter vs. Spector, and more!

Suck on this, swine!The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting far from

By Eric Flowers
Apr 29, 2009
Editorial

The Downtown Anti-Panhandler Crusade

When you fall on hard times, it's always tempting to look for someone other than yourself - your financial adviser, your banker, the brother-in-law who

By Eric Flowers
Apr 29, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Dog Owner Social Engineering

This week's letter comes from Gene Seigal who keeps the dog licensing debate well-stoked with this missive on tiered licensing. Thanks for the humorous take

By Eric Flowers
Apr 29, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Forwards or Backwards?

As I was driving down the road this morning I was listening to the Democracy Now show on KPOV 106.7 radio. They were telling

By Eric Flowers
Apr 29, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Torture Just Backfires

Torture is wrong because it doesn't work. Societies must, at times, walk into questionable moral territory, but when that happens, you should at least get

By Eric Flowers
Apr 29, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Do What You Can

I was saddened to read the personal story about the closing of Santee Alley (Leaving Downtown: Contemplating the end of an era and a dream).

By Eric Flowers
Apr 29, 2009

Culture Features

Something Close to the American Dream: My night of Bunco

Call me the tumblin' diceLast month I found myself the substitute player at a Bunco party where every one of the thirteen women was a

By Suzanne Burns
Apr 29, 2009
Picks

Our Picks for the Week of 4/29 - 5/7

By The Source Staff
Apr 29, 2009

Chow

Drive On In: Because who wants to eat pork right now?

By Eric Flowers
Apr 29, 2009
Chow

The Early Bird: Sparrow is a bite of Paris in an unlikely spot

I'm always looking to try new places, so I asked a chef friend where he likes to eat locally. He's a total food snob with

By Alice Finer
Apr 29, 2009
Chow

The Early Bird: Sparrow is a bite of Paris in an unlikely spot

I'm always looking to try new places, so I asked a chef friend where he likes to eat locally. He's a total food snob with

By Alice Finer
Apr 29, 2009
Chow

Drive On In: Because who wants to eat pork right now?

By Eric Flowers
Apr 29, 2009

Film

Misinformed: Beautiful messed up people make ugly messed up movie

The Thriller video shoot is next door, guys. It's not until about three-quarters of the way through that you get to find out why this

By Mike Bookey
Apr 29, 2009
Film

The Mind's Ear: Outstanding cast boosts The Soloist

By Mike Bookey
Apr 29, 2009
Film Events

Mafia Monopoloy: Latest Godfather has the goods

I started out with no respect for The Godfather II. In The Godfather: The Game, classic scenes from one of the world's greatest movies were

By Mike Bookey
Apr 29, 2009

Sound Stories & Interviews

Comedy, Folk and Crayons

By The Source Staff
Apr 29, 2009
Sound Stories & Interviews

Gypsies in Mariachi Clothing: Creating geographical confusion with Diego's Umbrella

By The Source Staff
May 1, 2009
Sound Stories & Interviews

Making it Epic: Sitting in with Empty Space Orchestra

By The Source Staff
Apr 29, 2009
Sound Stories & Interviews

Nershi Gives Us a Little Slice of Cheese

By The Source Staff
Apr 29, 2009

Natural World

Where Wolves?: Reclassifying wolves could have consequences

This is the second installment in a two-part piece about the decision to remove gray wolves from the Endangered Species list in Montana and Idaho.

By Jim Anderson
Apr 29, 2009
Outside Features

California Dreamin': Soul Surfing and Riding Down Memory Lane

By Pam Stevenson
Apr 29, 2009