Letters to the Editor

Editor’s note: The 2020 presidential election is still 10-ish months away… but it already feels like political season is in full swing. From the opening of the Oregon legislative session next week, to the ups and downs of the impeachment trial, to us beginning to assemble our candidate endorsement board… we’re up to our ears […]

Editor’s note: I admit it: I’ve spent a bit too much time this week on Twitter and the websites of various national news outlets. With the Senate impeachment trial starting, I’m as riveted as many of you. Meanwhile, local elections are happening as early as May—and the partisan rhetoric spewing out of Washington, D.C., has […]

Editor’s note: Recently we reported on Bend getting national recognition (not unusual)—this time, for being the #1 city in which to get fit. With that designation, we know that many of our readers are already well-apprised about the basics of nutrition and exercise and fitting those things into busy schedules. I’m guessing our close proximity […]

Editor’s note: A few months ago, our team was doing a vision session about the special issues we wanted to tackle in 2020. It surprised me to hear the words, “We should do a money issue” tumbling out of my mouth. We’re a local paper and not a business or finance magazine, after all—so why […]

Editor’s Note: New Year, new laws! As we settle into 2020, we’re outlining a few changes you’ll see in Oregon laws this year (bye bye plastic bags!), as well as connecting with a futurist about everything from self-driving cars to job prospects for the coming decades. And while some futurists say computers are already able […]

Editor’s note: Reflecting upon the last decade, it hit me: I got my first smartphone about 10 years ago today. Mind. Blown. If anything spurred a massive change in today’s society, it was the advent of those bright blue screens, stuck in our faces every day. And with that came an explosion in the use […]

Editor’s note: From all of us at the Source Weekly, we hope you’re enjoying time with friends and family and reveling in the beauty of Central Oregon this holiday season. We’ll be on a slightly amended distribution schedule over the next two weeks, but you can be sure that, like always, all stories published in […]

Editor’s note: I’ve just finished reading the nine short pages that constitute the Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump. This is a historic moment for our nation, and while our publication is focused largely on the issues closest to home, there’s no doubt that the policies, orders and yes, even the alleged obstruction and […]

Editor’s note: Getting this paper from newsroom to printer to you takes a battalion of dedicated individuals—especially when the snow hits hard, as it did last week, just when we began distribution. Because of that, I’d like to take a sec to say thanks to the hard-working, hard-driving people who ensure the Source Weekly gets […]

Editor’s note: In addition to being Thanksgiving week, November is also Native American Heritage Month—declared so in 1990 by President H.W. Bush. To mark that, this week’s issue reserves some space to tell tales of local indigenous people doing important work in the community, as well as other stories of sharing in some Thanksgiving-related fun. […]