Letters to the Editor

Guest Opinion: Psychedelic Frontier By Erin Naftalin, R.N. I’m writing to express my concern regarding the recent Psychedelic Frontier column promoting unsupervised psilocybin use and offering vague guidance for self-administration. As someone deeply committed to safe, ethical and transformative psilocybin facilitation, I believe this approach is not only irresponsible but poses a significant risk to […]

Saving Grace/Mary’s Place As a board member of Saving Grace, I proudly support all the domestic violence services that we offer to the Central Oregon community—but I specifically wanted to highlight the value of Mary’s Place and ensure that community members know about this program. Mary’s Place offers supervised parenting time and safe exchanges for […]

Guest Opinion: ‘Tis the Season: The Season of Small Business and Small Business Saturday by Beto Yarce, Pacific Northwest Regional Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration Did you know that, according to various surveys, more than 80% of Americans trust small businesses and believe it’s important to support them? This approval rating is higher than virtually […]

Protect Bend’s Parks, Schools and Historic Open Spaces Bend needs affordable housing. However, adding “Income Qualified Housing Allowed Outright” to the Public Facilities Zone, as proposed by the Planning Commission, is neither mandated by Oregon law nor in our best interest. Nothing in the Oregon Affordable Housing legislation states that cities must alter their zoning […]

In Response to the Pilot Butte Incident with Child Bringing Gun to School Did you also know, Oregon ranks near dead last for mental health care in the nation, and ranks dead last for mental health care for youth in our nation? I remember being told this statistic somewhere around the last two years I […]

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 […]