Yes, we understand the ticket sales are necessary to support concert costs and pay bands like Michael Franti and upcoming MGMT (Aug. 31). But no, we don’t think the closure of the open lawn space at the Old Mill to freeloaders, who for the past decade have picnicked and lounged on the lawns there while […]
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One Day at a Time
MONDAY 12 We have good news and bad news to start off the week, and we’ll let you guess which is which: Abusive a-hole Chris Brown suffered a seizure this past weekend…and apparently it’s YOUR FAULT. According to TMZ, Brown experienced the non-epileptic seizure at a Los Angeles recording studio, but declined hospitalization or treatment […]
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Waste No More
In a famous Supreme Court decision, Justice Louis Brandeis posited that states and cities should be the laboratories for innovative civic ideas; that is, that creative civic policies should first be taken for test spins before being rolled out nationwide. At times, Oregon has been a prime example of such experimentation, like pioneering the Bottle […]
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One Day at a Time
MONDAY 5 While our One Day at a Time go-to gals Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes work on their mental issues and sobriety (BOOOOOOO. Just kidding. No really, BOOOOOOO.) who’s going to entertain us? How about America’s number one douchebag, Justin Bieber? Here’s this week’s example of JB douchebaggery: According to the New York Post, […]
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One Day at a Time
MONDAY 29 In a startling turn of events, a Pope said something today that was actually reasonable. In an interview aboard the papal aircraft (which we’ve nicknamed, “Our Airline of Perpetual Sorrows”), Pope Francis was asked how he felt about gay priests and responded, “We shouldn’t marginalize people for this.” Wait. Wait, wait, wait, waitwaitwaitwaitWAIT. […]
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Too Early to Claim Gold
Do you know who Vladimir Morozov is? Neither did we. But he won fifth place at the recent World Swimming Championships (100 meter free), which is exactly where Bend, the self-dubbed Bike Town USA, ranks in the state (yes, the state of Oregon, not even the nation) as a bike-friendly community. Behind the platinum- level […]
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Go Green or Go Home
It’s time for Bend to stop acting so provincial and step into a leadership role. Our city of 80,000 could do so by implementing the Oregon Department of Transportation’s lauded data analysis tool, GreenSTEP, a relatively new software that sets up various transportation and lifestyle scenarios and estimates greenhouse gas emissions. GreenSTEP came about as […]
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One Day at a Time
MONDAY 22 Though One Day at a Time usually focuses on the most terrible aspects of the human condition, today we devote our attentions to life! In particular, the birth of the royal baby! Born to the Duchess and Duke of Cambridge, the bouncing baby boy weighed in at 8 lbs., 6 oz. and…WAIT. THIS […]
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AirBnB roped into city tax
AirBnB and other informal services through which homeowners rent out their homes have remained largely unregulated by the same agencies and rules that govern hotels. But as those rental have grown in numbers (and market share), so has grown cities' interest in taxing them. Last Friday, the city of Bend issued a press release announcing […]
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One Day at a Time
MONDAY 15 Let’s start by checking in on the “First Family of Monstrosities”: the Kardashians! As we know, Kim and Kanye West’s new baby North West is going to be the worst thing that’s ever happened on this planet ever. Why? Because now the Kardashians have something new to exploit. Example: Instead of focusing on […]
