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With the Vets Village Open, an Opportunity to Learn

The collaborative project is thus far a success story about how communities, local governments and willing individuals can come together to meet a need

by The Source Staff December 1, 2021December 19, 2024

On Veterans Day, the first of what could one day be a number of villages for houseless individuals in Central Oregon opened on the Deschutes County public safety campus. The 15 armed services veterans who will live there will not only have a place to live, but will have access to social services and other […]

Opinion

With Districts Official, Here’s to Clean Campaigns

While the November 2022 election is still a year away, the primaries that precede the general election are coming in the spring.

by The Source Staff November 24, 2021July 10, 2024

This week, with a decision by the Oregon Supreme Court, the lines drawn during 2021’s redistricting process essentially became official. Those lines were redrawn due to population changes revealed during the 2020 U.S. Census, creating a geographically smaller Oregon House District 54 in Bend and dividing Redmond between House districts 53 and 59, which includes […]

Opinion

This Time, California Really is to Blame

by The Source Staff November 17, 2021January 27, 2024

We know what you’re thinking: That morning sun is great and all, but getting home from work in the dark is the pits. We also know what you’re asking: Didn’t we vote to get rid of this madness of changing the clocks forward and back two times a year? Yes, Oregon, we did. And the […]

Opinion

Roads, Bridges, Water and Broadband Were on the Line. Bentz Voted No. But Why?

Rep. Bentz’s office did not respond to our request for comment on the infrastructure bill vote by press time

by The Source Staff November 10, 2021December 13, 2024

Whether it’s out of genuine interest or just for optics, politicians in Oregon sure do like to talk about “rural issues.” Every election season, political hopefuls will trot out the talk about rural Oregon’s shortage of quality rural jobs, sub-par or inequitable education, the lack of investment in basic services and more. Mentioning these issues […]

Opinion

After a Recent Rollout in Bend, Bodycams are Doing Their Job

This is what police accountability can and should look like

by The Source Staff November 3, 2021January 4, 2023

In 2020, the Bend City Council, in a split decision, voted to fast-track a police bodycam program the City had been planning for several years. With police accountability a major topic at the time, speeding up the implementation of the bodycam program made sense. Still, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz warned that bodycams wouldn’t tell […]

Opinion

ARPA Is a Stopgap. What Happens When Those Funds Run Out?

If locals truly want to stop seeing homeless camps pop up, we need to wrap our heads around the fact that someone will need to pay for it

by The Source Staff October 27, 2021July 1, 2024

This week, property owners in Deschutes County and elsewhere in the state are receiving that oft-dreaded document: the property tax bill that shows, for most in this booming community, how much more they’ll be paying this year. Due to Oregon Measure 50, passed in the 1990s, property taxes can’t go up more than 3% from […]

Opinion

An Independent Governor May Be Just What Oregon Needs

Uniting Oregon under a banner of moderation messaging may help turn down the current temperature

by The Source Staff October 20, 2021October 4, 2023

It’s still a year away, but the buzz around Oregon’s gubernatorial race is already heating up. With Gov. Kate Brown termed out, a handful of candidates on each side of the political aisle have come forward, including House Speaker Tina Kotek, former Republican gubernatorial candidate Bud Pierce and even part-time Yamhill County resident Nick Kristof […]

Opinion

Bend’s Representation in Congress Has Long Been Shunted. Now It’s Gotten Worse.

It’s highly likely that urban-area candidates will receive more attention for the new seat than anyone from Bend could hope to get

by The Source Staff October 13, 2021May 20, 2025

Ask most Bendites about the identity of their city, and one way they may define it? “Not Portland.” While a good portion of recent transplants have moved here from cities including Portland, Seattle or San Francisco, many chose to make the move precisely because Bend was not, in fact, like the places they come from. […]

Opinion

A Statute Banning Concealed-Carry Permit Holders from Consuming While Carrying Could Have Spared Barry Washington, Jr’s Life.

It won’t bring Washington back, but it may bring a measure of justice so desired by friends, family and community members during this moment in Bend’s history

by The Source Staff October 6, 2021June 9, 2025

This past month, officials say Ian Cranston gunned down Barry Washington, Jr. on the streets of Bend. Washington’s death has caused many to call for all manner of retribution and justice, including upgrading Cranston’s charges from second-degree manslaughter to murder charges. A grand jury made that determination last week, and Cranston does now face charges […]

Opinion

Slipper: Campus Child Care Options for OSU-Cascades, COCC

This program is exactly the type of collaboration and action that employers (and educational institutions) should be moving toward

by The Source Staff September 29, 2021June 30, 2024

As journalists, one of the things we get asked most often these days is, “Where are the workers?” While we’d like to offer a definitive answer that wraps all the current challenges into one tidy bow, the situation is a combination of factors; not exactly what those who are asking us about it were hoping […]

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