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Source WeeklySeptember 1, 2011July 28, 2024

Monday, Aug. 22
It's all over! Libyan rebels claim victory, say they've taken control of 95percent of capital city of Tripoli … Maybe it isn't all over! Forces loyal to dictator Muammar Qaddafi still holding on; Qaddafi son tells journalists his dad has shrewdly lured rebels into a “trap” … Yeah, we blew it: NYC District Attorney asks court to drop rape charges against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn because of alleged victim's credibility problems … Lawyered up: Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein retains hotshot defense lawyer Reid Weingarten as investigations of his role in sub-prime mortgage fiasco continue … Not this time: Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Tea Party darling and architect of Republicans' throw-grandma-under-the-train Medicare plan, says he won't run for president this year … Bursting at the seams: GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will triple size of his 3,000-sf, $12 million home in La Jolla, CA; says he needs more room for five grown children and 16 grandkids.

Opinion

COBA's Creative Acounting

The Source StaffAugust 25, 2011January 4, 2023

The Central Oregon Builders Association (COBA) has a long history of contesting the city of Bend's fees. So it's no surprise that COBA took an early interest in the city's recent effort to update the street construction fee assessed to builders.

Opinion

Our Fresh Straight Poop Has Never Been More Affordable

The Source StaffAugust 17, 2011March 6, 2023

Monday, Aug. 8
Life on the downgrade: Stock market resumes plunge on first Monday after Standard & Poor's lowers US credit rating; Dow drops 634 points … US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner rips S&P, says it has “shown really terrible judgment” … Street fighting men, and women: Rioting in Britain enters third day, spreads from London to Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool … Oh, Jackie: British tabloid says ABC News has tape of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis blaming Lyndon Johnson for JFK's assassination, but ABC says report is “total nonsense” … Or is that “shafted”? Former Tiger Woods caddie and Sunriver resident Steve Williams has harsh words for ex-boss: “I’ve caddied for the guy for 12 years, I’ve been incredibly loyal to the guy and I got short-shrifted.”

Opinion

Getting the Mortgage Modification Runaround

Many have been misled by banks in applying and receiving their home loans.

The Source StaffAugust 17, 2011June 3, 2023

Pfc. Aaron Collette came home to Bend from Iraq in June to a warm welcome from family and friends. But the welcome from JPMorgan Chase wasn't so friendly: It was taking away the home his father, Tim Collette, bought five years ago.
Tim Collette, a building contractor, put $125,000 down and took out a $230,000 mortgage. He made the payments faithfully for 15 months. But then the real estate market crashed and burned, taking Collette's business with it – and Collette became one of the millions of Americans facing the loss of their homes in the Great Recession.

Opinion

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Source WeeklyAugust 10, 2011January 4, 2023

Monday, Aug. 1
Playing kick the can: House passes debt ceiling bill containing $2.3 trillion in spending cuts, no revenue increases; sends it on to Senate … Sources say Vice President Joe Biden accuses Tea Party Republicans of “acting like terrorists” in debt ceiling negotiations … Look who's calling names: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says US is “like a parasite” on global economy … Covering the tracks: Technology firm HCL tells British government it deleted hundreds of thousands of emails for Rupert Murdoch's News International Corp. … Clean getaway: FBI says it's zeroing in on suspect who could be D.B. Cooper, who hijacked airliner and parachuted into Washington woods with $200,000 cash ransom in 1971. One problem: The suspect has been dead 10 years.

Opinion

The High Cost of Driving While Stupid

Using cell phones while driving are still no excuse for accidents.

Source WeeklyAugust 10, 2011July 11, 2025

An estimated 2,600 people die in America each year as a result of drivers being distracted by using cell phones. This summer, 16-year-old Forrest Cepeda of Bend apparently became one of them.
Police say Cepeda and a friend were biking along Reed Market Road on July 25 when he was struck by a pickup truck driven by Erik Conn, 28, of LaPine. According to police, Conn was trying to slow the pickup – which was towing a trailer – to avoid hitting a vehicle in front of him when he lost control and slid across the narrow shoulder into the path of the two boys.
Cepeda's friend managed to leap out of the way. Cepeda wasn't quick enough, or lucky enough. He was dead at the scene.

Opinion

Jeff Merkley Refuses to Roll Over

Source WeeklyAugust 3, 2011January 12, 2023

President Obama and the Republicans have been doing a weird little dance ever since Obama was inaugurated in 2009. It might be called the Congressional Two-Step.
It goes like this: The Republicans take two steps to the right. Then Obama takes two steps to the right. Then the Republicans take two more steps to the right. Then Obama takes two more steps to the right, calls it a “compromise” and declares victory.
Obama and the Republicans just concluded an extended performance of the dance during the fight over raising the federal debt ceiling. On Tuesday – the deadline beyond which the nation supposedly would have gone into default on its debts – the Senate passed and Obama signed what was described as a compromise bill to raise the ceiling in exchange for $2.5 trillion in government spending cuts.

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Source WeeklyAugust 3, 2011January 4, 2023

Monday, July 25
First the good news: NFL players' union agrees to new contract with owners. Thanks, we needed that .

Opinion

Deschutes County Shoots the Messenger

The Source StaffJuly 27, 2011March 4, 2025

In ancient times, the legends say, potentates used to execute messengers who dared to bring them bad news. The custom of literally killing the messenger appears to have died out, but they're still metaphorically killing messengers in Deschutes County.
The Deschutes Economic Alliance is a group that's trying to find some way for Deschutes County to claw its way out of the abyss it fell into when the real estate bubble its economy was floating on popped. To aid in that task it's hired some consultants, one of them being Southern California-based Bill Watkins.

Opinion

Certified Fresh Straight Poop: It’s Good For You

Source WeeklyJuly 27, 2011February 2, 2024

Monday, July 18Stranger and stranger: John Hoare, former reporter who first blew the whistle on phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, found dead in his apartment … John Yates, assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, quits, following lead of top cop Sir Paul Stephenson … Pranksters hack website of Murdoch's The Sun tabloid, post story saying Murdoch found dead … Directors of News Corp. wondering if it's time for Murdoch to go … That explains a lot: Former neo-Nazi pre-teen pop singers Lynx and Lamb Gaede, now 19, say they now embrace diversity. “My sister and I were home-schooled,” explains Lynx … Nothing can explain this: Lionsgate producing new sitcom called “Anger Management” starring Charlie Sheen as a psychotherapist. The irony is almost painful.

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