The Gordon Smith campaign is out with another TV spot ripping Jeff Merkley as a tax-and-spend liberal. In this one, we actually see Merkley saying: "I advocate for tax hikes every night in living rooms across Oregon."
How easy or hard is it to get around your neighborhood without a car? The Eye spotted a handy little tool on the Web that tells you.
Next weekend just got a bit more affordable for music fans as the folks at the helm of next weekend’s 4 Peaks Music Festival announced today that they’ll be cutting the ticket prices for the second annual gathering in Tumalo. Organizers also announced that the festival will move from it’s Rockin’ A Ranch location in 2009.
In a development that has to make Republicans everywhere a little jittery, Rasmussen Reports has just released a poll showing that Jeff Merkley has narrowly pulled ahead of incumbent Republican Sen. Gordon Smith.
Hallelujah — Bend has made another of those "Top 10" lists. This time it's NorthWest Crossing being hailed as one of the "Top 10 Cottage Neighborhoods" in America by Cottage Living magazine.
One of the beauties of public transportation? You don’t actually have to be awake during your commute. There's a revolution going on in the streets of America. And it ain't the one dreamed up by the marketing folks at Chevrolet. Quite the opposite, record high gas prices are pushing people out of their cars and onto other forms of transportation. Bike sales are up. Amtrak is breaking records and bus ridership is at its highest in 50 years and growing.
Right in our backyard, the number of people punching bus tickets is climbing steadily - roughly half a million riders have taken the Bend bus system since it started service in September of 2006. But at a time when public transportation is looking better and better, the future of Bend's fledgling bus system is in question.
The city council cut more than $200,000 out of the Bend Area Transit
(BAT) budget this year and is looking at much deeper cuts if voters
don't approve a proposed transit district in November. If approved, the
new district would take over administration of BAT and would remove the
burden of funding the system from the city council, which this year is
putting about $1.3 million into BAT from the city's general fund -
money which otherwise could go to services like police, fire, road
repair, etc.
You've probably seen the TV ad accusing Jeff Merkley, Gordon Smith's Democratic rival for the US Senate, of voting for $2 billion worth of new taxes as a member of the Oregon House. Smith has been repeating the same charge as he stumps around the state.
Conservative political activist Bill Sizemore, who's had his share of legal problems, just got another one: An Oregon progressive organization filed a criminal complaint today charging him and his associates with fraud in gathering signatures for initiative petitions.
Is this Central Oregon's Summer of Weirdness? First we had the Pregnant Man giving birth to a baby girl, then the Balloon Man flying all the way from Bend to Idaho in a lawn chair … and now comes news that doctors have removed a 140-pound tumor from a Redmond woman.
You wouldn't normally expect a campaign for the prosaic office of state treasurer to get down and dirty, but the race between Republican Allen Alley and Democrat Ben Westlund just did.
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