Letters to the Editor

Correction: In last week’s “Back to the Ballot Box: Election 2024” feature, we gave cumulative totals of the cash contributions for each city council candidate, which included the cash candidates had contributed to their own campaigns. We have corrected the numbers in the online version of the story to reflect the total amount of cash […]

Bend City Council Pos. 4: The Source got it wrong In the many years that I have called Bend my home, I have witnessed a lot of changes to the City Council, as councilors came and departed. In my opinion, our most refreshing and appealing Councilor, that not only came, but has stayed for 10 […]

Jennifer Baires and the Vander Kamp story Yet another bullseye piece by Jen Baires on the whole Vander Kamp investigation documents story. A big hat tip, as well, to OPB’s Emily Cureton Cook on this will he?/won’t he?/what the hell is going on here? roller coaster of a tale. —Bruce Cummings Election Deniers Have No […]

Guest Opinion: City Council candidates agree there’s a housing crisis; new tree code suggests otherwise By Kirk Schueler and Jesse Russell On Monday, Sept. 30, the candidates for Bend City Council gathered to share their views at a forum on affordable housing. Despite their differences, the candidates all agreed that Bend is facing a serious […]

RE: “On the Outskirts,” Feature 9/19 Just read the “On the Outskirts” article … nicely written and sadly showing that what we have dealing with this continually growing problem is a handful of politicians (or wannabes) with no valuable first-hand real-world leadership experience whose primary goal is re-election or getting elected. Doesn’t that read like […]

Guest Opinion: Good News for Groundwater and the Environment By Yancy Lind Since 1955 the Oregon Water Resources Department has had a legal requirement to approve new groundwater permits only where there are “reasonably stable” groundwater levels. Unfortunately, this was never defined and few steps were taken to measure or otherwise obtain data that would […]

Just another parking lot rage story On a nice smokey Sunday morning, after returning extra supplies at Lowe’s with the very helpful, friendly lady there, I contentedly sauntered back to my car having successfully finished my project. As I was about to get in my car, I heard some angry muttering but didn’t think anything […]

Trapped in a Never-Ending Cycle Slavery was abolished on paper, and then all the poor people became wage slaves. Even when slavery was legal, some were able to buy their freedom. And that’s what it comes down to, still, you can buy your freedom just as it was back then. Our leaders made choices: our […]

Weeds Humans need to stop meddling, let nature take its course and avoid weeding out less desirables. We treat species as if some were weeds. All sentient beings have a right to survival. We have no right to eliminate some that are not to our liking. Killing is wrong. Barred owls are being eliminated in […]

RE: Jen Sorensen cartoon, 8/22 I am responding to your comics of Donald Trump. I read the Source quite often and get a lot of information out of it. I am a Trump voter and read your comics and kinda laugh at all the things you come up with. I’ve listened to that stuff you […]