Hayden Homes tops Oregon Business Magazine’s Best Companies list.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced they are leading a national lawsuit against a ruling that would directly effect funding for Title X.
The first day of this recent big storm was magical—the white stuff piling up like lovely puffs over the grime of winter. You may have shoveled the walk a bit, mostly enjoying some time off in front of the fire. The next day, maybe the groceries were running low. Maybe you had to go back […]
In Central Oregon, Planned Parenthood’s Bend Health Center serves around 7,000 Central Oregonians a year, according to stats provided by the Center in 2017. That’s about 600 to 700 patients a month. According to the staff there, about 96 percent of the services the Bend clinic provides is preventative—including screenings and treatment for sexually transmitted […]
As we outlined in the Opinion piece on page 4 of this issue, the Source’s Woman of the Year in 2019 is Erika McCalpine, a business instructor at OSU-Cascades, who moved to this community in early 2018 from Alabama. Not long after, McCalpine experienced at least one racial incident that left her feeling vulnerable—an incident […]
Forty years ago, Lynn Jarvis and I joined a very small group of women attorneys in the Central Oregon area. The landscape of the legal profession has definitely changed over those four decades. Estimates are now that over 50 percent of law students are female. When I was in law school in the ’70s, it […]
Veronica Ramos isn’t a counselor. By day, she works in accounting for Bend Parks and Recreation District. She dreams of one day opening a halfway home for women transitioning out of human trafficking. For now, though, she’s focusing on a new support group for women survivors of sexual abuse — something she’s passionate about, as […]
Donning colors of pink, red and purple, women of all backgrounds and appearances acted out Eve Ensler’s riveting writings at this year’s mid-February performances of “The Vagina Monologues“, held in both Bend and Madras. Having a performance in a place beyond Bend is just one way the show producers aimed to make it more inclusive. […]
Much like the national political climate, in which we’re witnessing a loony, right-wing president drive insane policies to fights in the federal courts, our own right-wing Deschutes Board of County Commissioners may be driving our rural cannabis industry to Salem to seek a change to Deschutes County rules. First, an update to a story we […]
We know you’ve seen those recognizable signs claiming, “We Buy Your Home 4 Cash” or “Cash Now For Your Fixer.” The premise behind this business model: individuals or private groups of investors will purchase a home quickly, with cash, well below market value, and then fix it up and resell it for a nice profit. […]
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