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May 2025 Electoral Endorsements: Pos. 4

Vote Cary Schneider for Bend Metro Park & Recreation District Board, Pos. 4

Cary Schneider has been serving as an appointed member of the Bend Park & Recreation District board since last year, when he filled the place left by Zavier Borja. Voters should support Schneider continuing in the work. Having served on the BPRD budget committee prior to his service on the wider board, Schneider has displayed […]

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May 2025 Electoral Endorsements: Pos. 1

Vote Ashley Proctor for Redmond School District 2J Board, Position 1

Ashley Proctor is a person Redmond voters should be proud to welcome to the school board. She cites the support of educators and other community leaders in motivating her to see beyond her at-risk childhood โ€” enlisting in the Army, and later, into a career as a social worker helping those with intellectual and mental […]

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May 2025 Electoral Endorsements: Zone 6

Vote Ross Tomlin for Bend-La Pine Schools Board of Directors, Zone 6

Voters have two quality candidates in this race. Theo Wilhelm is a K-12 classroom teacher with 25 years of experience; Ross Tomlin, the incumbent who was appointed by the board last year, is a career educator with administrative experience at the community college and education service district level. Both would serve the students, teachers, support […]

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May 2025 Electoral Endorsements: Zone 7

Vote Kina Chadwick for Bend-La Pine Schools Board of Directors, Zone 7

In this race, the incumbent, Kina Chadwick, is most prepared to serve. From their years on the school board, Chadwick has a clear vision of the challenges ahead: funding cutbacks, a need for more early childhood literacy, engaging students and chronic absenteeism among them. They should have a chance to continue their work. Chadwick’s opponent, […]

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Vote Megan Norris for Bend City Council Pos. 1 โ–ถ [With Video]

Source Electoral Endorsements

This race is an interesting contrast. On the one hand you have a sitting councilor, Megan Norris, who’s been embedded in politics in California and now works for local housing developer, Hayden Homes. On the other hand you have Jonathan Curtis, who was raised in Bend and experienced homelessness before working as a wildland firefighter […]

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Vote Megan Perkins for Bend City Council Pos. 3 โ–ถ [With Video]

Source Electoral Endorsements

Megan Perkins has been out front on the issue of tackling homelessness in Bend, and for that, she should get another go-round on the Council. Her opponent, Nick Cerveny, shared during our interview how he wanted to see a 100% reduction in homelessness in Bend. It’s great to have lofty goals โ€”no one on the […]

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Vote Steve Platt for Bend City Council Pos. 4 โ–ถ [With Video]

Source Electoral Endorsements

This was a tough one for our editorial board. All three candidates have strong backgrounds and a solid grasp of the issues. All came with fairly detailed plans for addressing issues such as permit times, which developers say are stymying Bend’s growth. These are the type of prepared candidates one hopes will come forward in […]

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Brewery Engineer Seeks to Unseat Current Bend City Councilor Megan Perkins โ–ถ [With Video]

The two recently participated in an interview with the Source Weekly, discussing issues they hope to advocate for on the council

Current City Councilor Megan Perkins is running against Nick Cerveny, a veteran and engineer at Deschutes Brewery. The two recently participated in an interview with the Source Weekly, discussing issues they hope to advocate for on the council. Both candidates spoke of the importance of infrastructure funding, addressing houselessness and managing water resources. Both also […]

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Vote Anthony Broadman for Oregon Senate 27 โ–ถ [With Video]

Listen to candidates Michael Summers (R) and Anthony Broadman (D) and it might be hard to distinguish between them. The differences are in the details.

Listen to candidates Michael Summers (R) and Anthony Broadman (D), who are running for Oregon’s Senate 27 seat, and at broad brush, it might be hard to distinguish between them. Both see housing and housing affordability as the top issues for this campaign. Both talk about the need to adequately fund schools. Both want to […]

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