Letters to the Editor

Guest Opinion: All We Really Need to Know to Get Along in Central Oregon We Learned in Kindergarten “It doesn’t matter what you say you believe—it only matters what you do.” — Robert Fulghum, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” The past couple years have been tumultuous and divisive in Central Oregon. […]

Roe v. Wade The case against Roe v. Wade has been waging in earnest for at least 45 years. The argument of whether abortion is legal or not can be traced to pre-Revolutionary War in British Common Law. Being 66 years old, I have been listening to this commentary for the majority of my life. […]

RE: UFOregon Feature, 4/28 An interesting and relatively objective historical article. We now know that the unofficial media policy of ridiculing UFO/UAP interactions was backed with money by agencies like the CIA, who thought (probably rightly, given the panic over Orson Welles’ 1938 broadcast of “War of the Worlds”) UFO hysteria induced by the Soviets […]

Guest Opinion: In Response to “Firefighters Feuding,” News, 4/7 There have been three news articles regarding the fighterfighters’ union staff becoming unhappy with Fire Chief Mike Supkis and the board’s management of the 115 square mile fire district and the nearly 1,000 square mile ambulance service area. In July 2021 my elected term expired and […]

RE: A Farmer’s Plea to Change Water Laws, Guest Opinion, 4/14 I recently read the “Farmer’s Plea to Change Water Laws” and I think this is the main issue facing Oregon and specifically Deschutes County in relation to water.   The letter from Megan Keller-Rode is so well written and precise to the specific issues […]

Guest Opinion: Water laws in Oregon As a local farmer in Central Oregon, I am writing today out of desperation, out of panic, and from the heaviest heart. But I am also writing out of hope. If Oregon can make some changes to water laws and regulations, and fast, we may only have to endure […]

Guest Opinion: Enforce Water Quality Laws for the Deschutes River For the past twelve years, the Wild and Scenic lower Deschutes River has been warmer and filled with nuisance algae, to the detriment of aquatic life. Meanwhile the Department of Environmental Quality has stood by and allowed the river to be harmed. At its April […]

Time to Retire Congressman Kurt Schrader Congressman Kurt Schrader’s close ties to the pharmaceutical and oil & gas industries are well documented. Publications including Salon, The New Republic, The Oregonian, and The Intercept have all published stories linking his vote to kill the prescription drug pricing provisions included in the Build Back Better Act to […]

Reduce climate anxiety with action in local elections I appreciate the Source’s article last month highlighting Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray’s work and presentation on Climate Anxiety. As someone who has known about human-caused climate change since I was 18, and been involved in taking action ever since, I do have my fair share of climate […]

Corrections: The 3/10 story, “Who’s Running,” listed Vikki Iverson as a Republican running in the House 55 race in the 2022 May primary, and stated that Tim Knopp was running in 2022; those details were both incorrect. The 3/10 story, “Tots! Moves into 9th Street Village,” incorrectly stated that the business’ new pizza cart would […]