Scott Stuart and Tony DeBone are both running in the Deschutes County Republican primary, vying for a seat on the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners.
In this interview, Source Publisher and Editor Nicole Vulcan talk with Stuart and DeBone about land use, their rating of the county health department's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic... and, not always included in a county commission race, the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
Note: Several minutes of the interview, starting at roughly the 43:00 mark, are cut off due to a technical glitch.
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Nicole Vulcan has been editor of the Source since 2016. While the pandemic reduced "hobbies" to "aspirations," you can mostly find her raising chickens, walking dogs, riding all the bikes and attempting to turn a high desert scrap of land into a permaculture oasis. (Progress: slow.)
Local irrigation districts have a plan to conserve water in the Deschutes River and protect endangered species, but environmental groups say it isn't enough