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Sep 6-13, 2017

Vol. 21, No. 36

Digital Edition

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Local News

Capitol Influence

Central Oregon might lose all four of its state representatives. Will the region's clout go with them?

By Christian Trejbal
Sep 6, 2017
Local News

Muse + Soulrocker Yoga Jam with Michael Franti Today!

By Anne Pick
Sep 8, 2017
Local News

Did the rain help the wildfires in Oregon?

By Sophia Sahm
Sep 8, 2017
Local News

"Manifesto" Released of Umpqua Community College Shooter

The six-page letter says "For people like us this (is) all that’s left...My success in Hell is assured.”

By Magdalena Bokowa
Sep 8, 2017
Local News

Got the Canceled Sisters Folk Festival Blues? Volcanic Theatre Pub Has a Solution

By Anne Pick
Sep 8, 2017

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor: 20 Years Later and We're Still Writing in About the Same Issues.

Tourists, Homeless, Affordable Housing, Noise...but no Mirror Pond?

Sep 6, 2017

Culture Features

Through the Looking Glass: 20 Years of the Source Weekly

Your local, independent news source turns 20. Does that mean we're a "bonafide local" yet?

Sep 6, 2017
Culture Features

Beyond Bias: Living Out of the Closet in Central Oregon

By Renée Alexander
Sep 6, 2017
Culture Features

Mirror of Sand

Reflecting on the Needs of the River That We Now Call Mirror Pond.

By Michele LaBounty
Sep 6, 2017
Culture Features

Calling in the Cavalry

By Aaron Switzer
Sep 6, 2017
Culture Features

Growing Pains

A $2.4 million budgetary shortfall has an optimistic Bend-LaPine Schools Cutting Back While Development Soars

By Holly Groves and Joel Wright
Sep 6, 2017
Culture Features

Tower Theater: Last Chance for a Bend Landmark

By Alan Dietrich
Sep 6, 2017
Culture Features

Speed Still Kills

Central Oregon's struggle against methamphetamine

By Jeff Trainor
Sep 6, 2017
Culture Features

Crane Shed Legacy

Historic preservation law likely to get some teeth

By H. Bruce Mille
Sep 6, 2017
Culture Features

Bend Bypass Needs Major Surgery

Rapid growth has $120 million parkway clogged

By Frank X. Fielder
Sep 6, 2017
Culture Features

Opportunity of a Lifetime

The city aims big with Juniper Ridge, but the community is still in the dark. What's really going on?

By Erik Kancler
Sep 6, 2017
Culture Features

Empty Houses: When It Becomes Your Turn to Feel the Downturn

By Rebecca Lundgren
Sep 6, 2017
Smoke Signals

Drama at the Cannabis Congress

By Josh Jardine
Sep 6, 2017
Take Me Home

Nationally, Half of Homes Sold in Less Than a Month in July

By Nick Nayne, Principal Broker
Sep 6, 2017
Picks

Picks of the Week: Sept 6-13

It's the end of summer but Franti's and Sister's Folk Festival are in town.

Sep 6, 2017
Book Talk

Advice Goddess: The Sum Of His Beers

By Amy Alkon
Sep 6, 2017

Chow

Squeezed Out

Bend takes steps to create affordable housing

By Anne Pernick
Sep 6, 2017
Chow

This Land Is Your Land

Why illegal immigrants are coming to Central Oregon and what that means to you

By Elizabeth Marino
Sep 6, 2017
Beer & Drink

Bend Beer's Virginian Outpost

Inside Deschutes' brand-new Roanoke taproom

By Kevin Gifford
Sep 6, 2017

Sound Stories & Interviews

Creating Community Through Music

Michael Franti & Spearhead return to the Les Schwab Amphitheater for their annual concert in Bend.

By Anne Pick
Sep 6, 2017
Sound Stories & Interviews

Sisters Folk Festival — Canceled —

Our Source Weekly music writer tells you what to see at this year's fest.

By Anne Pick
Sep 6, 2017