Letters to the Editor

Guest Opinion: The Real Triple Crown of Economic, FireFighting, and Environmental Benefits By Dominick A. DellaSala and Rick Martinson Senator Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) recently introduced “Timber Innovation for Building Rural Communities Act” claims to “build[s] much-needed federal support for that triple crown of economic, firefighting, and environmental goals.” We find it ill-advised to promote logging […]

A letter to the Bend-La Pine School Board The unions affiliated with the Central Oregon Labor Chapter represent several thousand workers in both the private sector and public sector, including members of Chapter #6 of the Oregon School Employees Association. While the Bend Education Association is not in the AFL-CIO, their members are our allies […]

Cranes, Planes and AutoBikes “Look up in the sky and on the roads, it’s…the end of Bend as we knew it!” Most Central Oregon Bendocratsplants (yes, make it official) have seen cranes before, and surely a big jet airliner lumbering along for a landing. E-bikes, well, aside from the teens hogging the river trail, are […]

RE: New Park Projects Aim to Improve River Access News, 9/21 Bend parks design team, We appreciate efforts to maintain our riverbanks in the face of increased summer use here in town and enjoy the water park and recent river improvements. The small concrete rock style protection and recent access additions near Farewell Bend park […]

RE: BEND-LA PINE SCHOOLS REVIEWS POLICY AFTER SPORT SPONSORSHIP BACKLASH. NEWS, 9/21 From a quick glance at the Nosler product website, you can order the “Nosler 22” cartridge for your converted AR 15. (Then you can click on over to the AR-STONER website and order a 25 round capacity magazine for your Nosler 22’s.) The […]

RE: Affordable Housing. Take Me Home, 9/7 It’s a complicated issue but let’s also talk about Short Term Rental Permits if you want to discuss affordability. A reason for lack of affordability falls on the city for allowing people to acquire short term rental permits, aka STR’s. It is a big business for Airbnb and […]

Global Warming From the “Built Environment” After reading an article about Global Warming in “The New York Times,” I thought I would send some figures reported in the article concerning environmental emissions. As Bend is one of the top four fastest-growing cities in the U.S., we are likely one of the top four causes of […]

A Tree Removal and Bright Light City? I’m curious, how can the City of Bend think we could even begin to call ourselves a tree city. For at least the last six years, I’ve seen nothing but the clearing of trees by our lovely developers. How have we let this happen? Bend is well on […]

St. Charles What kind of regional medical facility and the only hospital system in our tri-county area rejects taking care of 26,000 of our most at-risk residents? St. Charles recently complained about the extra time it takes to process Medicare Advantage claims and how sometimes these claims are rejected and that some patients have to […]

Adair’s Reversal On July 26, it seemed Central Oregon had a big win on its hands as the County Commissioners voted to approve Central Oregon LandWatch’s proposal to limit the kind of luxury destination resort development that has so adversely impacted the region. But on August 9, Deschutes County Commissioner Patti Adair singlehandedly triggered a […]