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The Complexities of Remote Work for State Employees

Oregon should act fast to set policies that are fair and equitable and that don’t offer special favors for those who decide not to live here.
by The Source Staff

We’ve all heard the stats here in our own community: Bend is one of the most popular places for remote workers to come and live and reap the benefits of the lifestyle while also, often, earning the higher salaries offered in places like the Bay Area of San Francisco. While that’s meant an attractive lifestyle […]

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In the Wake of the Safeway Shooting, We Know How This Is Going to Go

we are living in an America where shootings of this type have become so commonplace that there is a threshold for what Congress defines as a “mass shooting,” and Bend’s recent tragedy doesn’t even rate among that standard.
by The Source Staff

Although we are afraid to confront it, we have all become familiar with gun violence in our public spaces. And, if we are honest, we know how the conversation around this violence will proceed. The faction of Americans tired of the violence, the death, the senseless trauma will call, now, in the wake of a […]

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With Proposed Bend Camping Code, Enforcement is a Key Issue

The alternative—not having any guidelines in place at all—is the less-humane route in a housing, economic and cultural situation that is far from humane.
by The Source Staff

This past Tuesday, the City of Bend held the first of two open houses intended to “inform the community about how developing an unsanctioned camping code fits into the City and community response to homelessness.” Another one takes place Aug. 29. Over the past several months the Bend City Council has begun establishing “time, place […]

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Effective Politicians Do It for the Results, Not the Re-Election

Good ideas are out there—but a surface-level understanding can lead to surface-level depression about the state of the world. Dig in and find the layers.
by The Source Staff

As we put out this Best of Central Oregon issue this week, we like to stop and smell the roses, so to speak. It’s easy to get lost in the entrenched pessimism that is the mood of the day, while all around us there are ideas and solutions that simply need time to play out. […]

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Deschutes County Psilocybin Services: Stop the Steal

Community members who rail about red tape, excess spending, about inefficiencies and the will of the people being subverted should be upset.
by The Source Staff

Last month, the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners listened to testimony from dozens of educated, experienced people who came from all walks of life—licensed clinical social workers, authors, therapists and “average Joes” who have seen the promise of psilocybin therapy and who are hopeful that with the passage of Measure 109 by voters statewide in […]

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Should the State Sell its Lands to a Central Oregon Golf Resort? Weigh In.

It’s going to seem like a win if the state decides not to sell the Cline Buttes land—and it will be. But in the grand scheme of things, Central Oregon’s water resources are still in big trouble.
by The Source Staff

In the 15+ years that Central Oregonians have been hearing about the development of Thornburgh Resort near Cline Buttes, much has been said, much debated. Parts of the story seem like a done deal. As was outlined in an enlightening piece by OPB this week, to ensure Thornburgh gets the approximately 6 million daily gallons […]

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My first issue: Molly Ringwald.

Avatar photo by Phil Busse

Just a few months before stepping into the Editor job a decade ago in 2012, I had seen Molly Ringwald present a confessional talk at The Moth; she talked about being a mom, and about recognizing that her middle-school daughter was a bully, and her abject frustration as that went against her entire life-philosophy and, […]

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The Source Weekly Turns 25

If this newspaper were a human, it could now officially rent a car… and maybe even move out of the parents’ basement!
by The Source Staff

In many ways, the story of the Source Weekly is the story of Bend—once small and scrappy, now a bit more citified… and populated by a Portlander or two or three. The Source Weekly, dubbed the “Deschutes Source” during its early days in 1997, has survived 25 years of fires, droughts, political upheavals, recalls, opt-outs, […]

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From Coast to Coast

32 years of marriage. 25 years of the Source. The story of this humble weekly newspaper starts with the love story of Angela and Aaron Switzer.
Avatar photo by Kyle Switzer

Twenty-five years of the Source Weekly means a regular ebb and flow of staff. There have been several editors, hundreds of journalists and a constant flow of sales reps. However, the two owners from the beginning, the two that always have managed to quietly massage their paper forward, are Aaron and Angela Switzer—my lovely parents. […]

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