One of the knocks on Jeff Merkley during the Democratic senatorial primary campaign was that he was too bland and mild-mannered to run the kind of tough campaign needed to knock off an incumbent. Now Merkley seems determined to refute that charge.
Wayne Kinney, a Democratic convention superdelegate who lives in Bend, announced today that he's supporting Barack Obama for the party's presidential nomination.
Some of the 200 or so people scattered throughout the stands at Mountain View High School’s gymnasium are gathering their belongings and tossing jackets over their shoulders as the clock on the scoreboard runs down, the digits in the hundredths of a second box fluttering by indiscernibly. The Central Oregon Hotshots are leading the West Coast High Flyers 136-128 and Arthur Lewis, Jr. – by far the shortest player on the court – is dribbling near half court and looks like he’ll run out the clock. Some High Flyers have already wandered to their bench, accepting the eight-point loss.
Lewis then bounds toward the basket (1) where two of his teammates are waiting. At first it appears as if they’re going to block their own teammate’s shot. But then Lewis flings his body at the two lumbering players who grab him around the ribs from each side and hoist him up to the basket. Lewis slams the ball, hangs on the rim for a delicate moment then descends to the floor and it’s hard to tell if the cheers or the laughs from the crowd are more audible.
With that, welcome to the International Basketball League.
It's always fun to see how people from The Great Outside perceive little old Bend, Ory-gun, so The Eye decided to pass on some observations made by blogger Jim Tankersley of the Baltimore Sun, who was here to cover Barack Obama's appearance on May 10:
The Oregonian’s editorial board handed some praise to Crook County citizens this morning for voting to put the brakes on more destination resorts.
There they go again: USA Today has published another Chamber-of-Commerce-style puff piece on Bend, touting it as "the new Boulder."
On Wednesday morning, Republican state treasurer candidate Allen Alley challenged Democratic nominee Ben Westlund to a series of five debates. On Wednesday afternoon, Westlund called Alley's bet and raised him by five.
It's not clear what the legal effect of Crook County's overwhelming vote against destination resorts will be, but it might make public officials all over Central Oregon want to hesitate before throwing open the gates for more of them.
Republican business executive Allen Alley threw down the gauntlet to Ben Westlund today, challenging his rival for the state treasurer's job to a series of debates.
Hatchet marks serve as historical reminders.The march of time has erased most of the Huntington Wagon Road. The shifting desert sand has long since filled in the wagon ruts. The few artifacts left behind by travelers on this early north-south route through Oregon are now encased behind museum glass at the Des Chutes Historical Center. But the land betrays a few signs of its former life.
The gnarled trunks of several junipers bear the scars of their function as road markers, hacked into by the hatchets of primitive road builders to mark the route for those that would follow. The hatchet marks, known as "blazes" are etched into several trees along the roughly mile-long stretch of Huntington Road, one of the few clues to the road’s role as a critical supply route during the last Indian uprising in Oregon and Northern California, The Modoc War.
Thanks to the work of local historians, the significance of this particular stretch is well documented; bullet shells, ox shoes and metal shirt buttons are just some of the Civil War-era items recovered from the site.
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