Letters to the Editor

Editor’s note: I don’t think I’m alone in saying that spring is one of my favorite times of the year. Snow left in the mountains to enjoy at our leisure, dry roads to bike upon and little bugs and buds just beginning to strut their stuff… there’s so much to love about the rebirthing of […]

Editor’s note: I could not have put it better than The Washington Post’s 5-Minute Fix newsletter, which on Tuesday outlined the events of the past week with the statement, “Back to our regularly scheduled mass shootings, intractable gun politics.” Fast on the heels of the Atlanta spa shootings that sparked so much conversation about ending […]

Editor’s note: It is a coincidence but not entirely surprising to me that on the week we are rolling out a feature story on a new effort to track and seek justice for the many Indigenous men and women who are missing or murdered in this country, we are also seeing the confirmation of the […]

Editor’s note: Over the past year we’ve spent a lot of time looking at the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic—but that’s just one of the challenges Oregonians have faced this year. In this week’s feature section, two contributors offer some perspective on how events over the past year—including wildfires, tourism and a lack of volunteers […]

Editor’s note: Last year, the Source Weekly—which has long had a Women’s Issue coinciding with International Women’s Day—joined forces with the Bend Chamber’s Women of the Year awards, for one giant event. Quite literally the night of the awards banquet, I arrived a little late due to the fact that I’d written a breaking news […]

Editor’s note: Last year, just days after Oregon got its first reported cases of COVID-19, I put an offer on a house in the Orchard District. As a first-time homebuyer, it felt crazy to do so at that time—and people tried to talk me out of it—but as we’ve seen over this past year, 2020 […]

Editor’s note: How was the first weekend of the return of inside dining for everyone? Cheers to those who were able to secure a coveted spot at a cozy table without having to fight gauntlet-style battles to do so. Or, maybe you went back to the food cart pod that’s been your go-to throughout this […]

Editor’s note: I can’t lie: Seeing case numbers drop sharply and hearing that Gov. Kate Brown had relaxed restrictions on Deschutes County starting this week was some of the most welcome news I’ve received in a long while. And since we’re the Source Weekly, home to a staff that loves to revel in all the […]

Editor’s note: Happy February! After an eventful January, it’s nice to look ahead to what could be an enriching Black History Month, filled with opportunities to focus on moving our country forward, rather than biting our nails about what political calamity might happen next. This week’s Source Picks section includes a few great events to […]

Editor’s note: I find it very fitting that on the week we are putting out our annual Poetry Issue, a young poet is the talk of the nation. Amanda Gorman’s rousing inaugural poem was a balm we needed to inspire us and get us thinking not of despair, but about how we are, “a nation […]