Letters to the Editor

Energize Bend’s Future with Your Expertise as a Bendite If we are going to keep growing, we should all have a say. When I returned to Central Oregon after graduating from college, I could not believe how many new neighborhoods had popped up. It made me wonder where all the water, electricity, and energy to […]

Close Encounters of the Wildlife Kind Let me begin by stating that I am not a wildlife biologist, or any other type of “ologist.” I did, however, spend a career in conservation, including nearly a decade working in Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) member institutions. I’ve worked with and around a lot of animals […]

McKenzie Meadows/Sisters development (July 16 issue) I agree with Bill Willitts and with McKenzie Meadows for urban growth expansion. That was halted with an environmental issue of Trout Creek, which already has only a month or so with water while we live in a drought. The considered UGB east of town into 10-acre-RR Zone properties […]

Being Seen At Munch & Music the other night, a handsome man, early forties maybe, looked at me and said, “You are pretty.”     Three words.     At this season of my life, I never expected to hear those words again. But his tone, his eye contact, the plain sincerity of it, made me believe him. I […]

Bicycles are traffic The local problem between bicyclists and drivers is the drivers. Bicycles are traffic in Oregon. Their right-of-way is equivalent to that of motorists except that they are allowed to treat a stop sign as “yield.” None of this means that you have to freeze up when somebody on a bicycle is waiting […]

A movie for the times A few nights ago, I went to see the movie, “Pressure.” I like history. I have always found it interesting to compare and contrast the past with the present. I believe there is much to learn there. I have read about the landing of Normandy many times and have seen […]

Comment on Trump’s and Vought’s huge federal grant rule change by July 13    The Trump administration plans to change the federal research grants process in ways that would cripple science in the United States. Oregonians need to tell Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought that we won’t stand for these rule changes. […]

The Fix our Forest Act is flawed It is great to see considerable local support to save The Roadless Rule, and I am one of those Roadless Rule supporters. I am writing this letter because there also needs to be opposition to the Fix Our Forest Act (H.R.471 /S.1462). Janelle Bynum voted in support of […]

Rodeo season in Central Oregon We’re coming up on my least favorite season in Central Oregon: rodeo season. What I find so disturbing is the contradiction. Local news outlets like KTVZ and Central Oregon Daily regularly promote animal welfare — helping pets find homes, celebrating kindness toward animals — then turn around and promote or […]

Egg 0iling program I’ve just read the latest issue of the Source and the letter of the week enlightened me to the fact that Bend Park and Rec has been doing a goose egg oiling program. I reached out to Parks and Rec and the person who is in charge is Zara Hickman, with whom […]