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Editor Nicole Vulcan is penning this week’s editorial under her name, rather than being a work of our editorial board, due to her personal tie to the subject matter. This week, we’re putting out our first Money Issue aimed at giving people some food for thought about handling finances in the new decade. Imagine our […]
On Jan. 8, the Bend City Council will do its second reading of proposed changes to the Bend Development Code, aimed at making it easier for developers to move projects through the system. The City Council voted 7-0 to approve the changes during the first reading of those changes in December. Among the four changes […]
As 2020 approaches, people have plenty of predictions about the next decade, and inclinations about what’s ahead. The Senate impeachment trial looms. An interesting presidential election will follow, with health care, trade and immigration only some of the topics of debate. Here in Bend, we have more locally focused ideas about what will emerge as […]
It was with heavy hearts that we learned this week of the pending lawsuit filed by the family of Deshaun Adderley against Bend-La Pine Schools. As parents ourselves, the story of Deshaun’s suicide in December 2017 hit us hard. When Deshaun’s father, Donavan, granted us an interview in the spring of 2018, Donavan’s story describing […]
This season, Bend city councilors have been busy tackling a number of important community issues. They just passed the Community Climate Action Plan—a series of actions aimed at reducing fossil fuel use in the city—after much debate about mandating the inclusion of a Home Energy Score program. The Council ultimately decided to omit the Home […]
Just about one year ago, this editorial page highlighted the efforts underway in Portland to direct some of the money collected through tourism-related taxes to a fund supporting people on the verge of homelessness. It was a novel idea that caught our attention then—and now that the arrangement, as reported by the Portland Tribune last […]
Here’s a thing that’s just as antiquated as a covered wagon: The way Central Oregon treats its relationship with one of its most coveted resources, its water. The system that allocates water resources from the precious Deschutes River has largely been in place since those covered wagon days—and if the local irrigation districts get their […]
In early December, the Bend City Council will consider whether to approve the Community Climate Action Plan—a series of recommendations aimed at reducing fossil fuel consumption in the city by as much as 70%, from current levels, by the year 2050. It’s an ambitious plan; one that comes with a set of voluntary recommendations and […]
We guess, in some strange way, we have to thank the denial-happy Deschutes County Board of Commissioners for being so creative in the way it has—without any defining language to support it—interpreted the term “Youth Activity Center” within the Deschutes County Code. With the state Land Use Board of Appeals recently telling the Commission to […]
Here at the Source Weekly, we’ve been publishing our Central Oregon Give Guide, in its current form, for the past six years. It’s been a helpful compendium of local nonprofits, with a description of their services and their year-end needs. This year, with the help of Rys Fairbrother and his online platform, WhatIfWeCould.com, we decided […]
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