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Jun 25 - Jul 1, 2009

Vol. 13, No. 26

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Local News

Fuzzy Conservative Numbers

Economist Randall J. Podenza from the conservative Cascade Policy Institute makes some interesting (although totally predictable) predictions about the effects of HB 3405, which raises

By The Source Staff
Jun 26, 2009
Local News

The OLCC: Still Drunk With Power

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission seems to have sobered up a little, at least regarding regulation of some events in Central Oregon.

By The Source Staff
Jun 25, 2009
Local News

Like Taking Nicotine from a Baby

Sen. Jeff Merkley is leading a crusade to take candy away from children - tobacco candy, that is.

By The Source Staff
Jun 24, 2009
Local News

Finally a Majority on the Metolius: Dems rally for the river and OLCC offers an olive branch

Using a razor-thin majority, Oregon House Democrats pushed through the cornerstone of their effort to protect the Metolius River basin from destination resort development. With

By Eric Flowers
Jun 24, 2009
Local News

On the (Fun) Bus: How a Panda Made Me Realize I Might Like Gambling

It's 10:20 - precisely - on a Wednesday morning and I'm running at what in the post-athletic phase of my life passes for a sprint

By Mike Bookey
Jun 24, 2009

Editorial

Supreme Defeat The South is redeemed by court order, Iraq burns while Iran learns, and more!

The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from St. Charles Medical Center's

By Intern
Jun 24, 2009
Editorial

The Come-From-Behind Metolius Victory

The Metolius Basin protection bill arose from the dead last week, and everybody in Oregon who cares about the irreplaceable treasure that is the Metolius

By Intern
Jun 24, 2009
Guest Commentary

I've Seen This Movie Before: Student unrest from Middle America to the Middle East

We students wait for word from the West. We know the mainstream media want our movement to fail, but our telephone service provider doesn't care

By Intern
Jun 24, 2009
Letters to the Editor

A Degree of Depression

I am one of the 200 or so students who just graduated from the OSU-Cascades campus here in Bend. Hurrah, I'm done! After 6

By Intern
Jun 24, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Time To Bring Cats Indoors

To those tuned into natural rhythms, things seem to be quieting down in the Central Oregon bird world with much of the calling at a

By Intern
Jun 24, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Cell Phone Drivers Are A Danger

Regarding what happened to Andrey, the guy who works at WebCyclery and was hit from behind while riding his bike on Shevlin Park road a

By Intern
Jun 24, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Is A Dollar A Dollar?

By Intern
Jun 24, 2009

Culture Features

That's Dwight!: Rainn Wilson, the man behind Schrute, tells us about faith, art and ninjas

Where's the mustard-colored shirt and wrist calculator?We caught up with Rainn Wilson, as in "the guy who plays Dwight Schrute on The Office," last week

By Mike Bookey
Jun 24, 2009
Picks

Our Picks for the Week of 6/25-7/1

By Mike Bookey
Jun 24, 2009

Chow

Judgment Days: Top chefs slug it out at the Bite of Bend

busting a culinary move at the bite.As the saying goes, those who can't do, critique. Okay, maybe that's not exactly how it goes, but when

By Alice Finer
Jun 24, 2009
Chow

Oregon Rocks!: Terrebonne Depot offers a taste of Oregon history with a backdrop that can't be beat

dining by the tracks at terrebone depot.I've never been much for climbing. Stairs, okay. Ladders, fine. But rocks, particularly when they're positioned at a dead

By Alice Finer
Jun 24, 2009
Chow

Oregon Rocks!: Terrebonne Depot offers a taste of Oregon history with a backdrop that can't be beat

dining by the tracks at terrebone depot.I've never been much for climbing. Stairs, okay. Ladders, fine. But rocks, particularly when they're positioned at a dead

By Alice Finer
Jun 24, 2009
Chow

Judgment Days: Top chefs slug it out at the Bite of Bend

busting a culinary move at the bite.As the saying goes, those who can't do, critique. Okay, maybe that's not exactly how it goes, but when

By Alice Finer
Jun 24, 2009

Film

Building a House of Gas and Dung: Harold Ramis' latest isn't exactly Caddyshack

Tenacious Archery time with JB.Little boys, whatever their ages, have always loved permission to laugh at potty humor. Like baseball, number two pencils, and visiting

By Intern
Jun 24, 2009
Film

Arizona? Sure looks like Madras to me: Zahn and Aniston serve up romantic quirks

Mister rabbit says, "A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers." Management is set in Kingman, Arizona but anyone who has been around here

By Intern
Jun 24, 2009

Sound Stories & Interviews

Grades, Stomps and Rhodes

That ain't the real axl.We're still icing our eardrums after a busy weekend of live music and figured we would have recovered by now. But

By Mike Bookey
Jun 24, 2009
Sound Stories & Interviews

Alternately Alternative: Idaho's Finn Riggins bends genres with or without the Internet

Finn Riggins battle it out, Idaho style.The wave of bands hitting the airwaves in the early 1990s - Green Day, The Offspring, Nirvana and Oregon's

By Intern
Jun 24, 2009

Natural World

Leave Baby Wildlife Alone: Those fawns don't need your help

One of thousands of Mule Deer fawns lying about Central Oregon these days. Please, leave them alone!Editor's note: Some folks didn't recognize Jim Anderson's column

By Jim Anderson
Jun 24, 2009
Outside Features

Going With the Flow: Wet 'n Wild on the McKenzie and Umpqua

The ump runs hot, cold and wild. I am a whitewater neophyte, but I'm joining some far-flung friends to do a trip down the Middle

By Pam Stevenson
Jun 24, 2009