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May 2025 Electoral Endorsements: Zone 6

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

by The Source Editorial Board April 30, 2025June 1, 2025

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 […]

Opinion

May 2025 Electoral Endorsements: Zone 7

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

by The Source Editorial Board April 30, 2025May 25, 2025

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, […]

Opinion

Vote Megan Norris for Bend City Council Pos. 1 ▶ [With Video]

Source Electoral Endorsements

by The Source Editorial Board October 16, 2024April 28, 2025

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 […]

Opinion

Vote Megan Perkins for Bend City Council Pos. 3 ▶ [With Video]

Source Electoral Endorsements

by The Source Editorial Board October 16, 2024December 8, 2024

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 —no one on the […]

Opinion

Vote Steve Platt for Bend City Council Pos. 4 ▶ [With Video]

Source Electoral Endorsements

by The Source Editorial Board October 16, 2024June 22, 2025

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 […]

Opinion

Vote Emerson Levy for House District 53

Source Electoral Endorsements

by The Source Editorial Board October 9, 2024November 5, 2024

In this race we have two elected officials and working parents who are passionate about creating the best-possible community they can. Keri Lopez is a Redmond home builder who serves on the Redmond School Board; Emerson Levy is a Bend attorney who is rounding out her first term as the state representative for House District […]

Opinion

Brewery Engineer Seeks to Unseat Current Bend City Councilor Megan Perkins ▶ [With Video]

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

by Julianna LaFollette October 2, 2024June 19, 2025

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 […]

Opinion

Vote Anthony Broadman for Oregon Senate 27 ▶ [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.

by The Source Editorial Board October 2, 2024November 3, 2024

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 […]

Opinion

In Oregon House 53 Race, Redmond School Board Director Keri Lopez Challenges Incumbent Emerson Levy ▶ [With Video]

A face off for the Bend-Sisters-Redmond House seat in the November election

by Julianna LaFollette October 2, 2024June 14, 2025

Current representative for House District 53, Democrat Emerson Levy, will face off against Republican Keri Lopez, the current director of the Redmond School Board, for the Oregon House seat in the November election. Lopez, who’s running on the premise of adding balance to the legislature, leaned on her expertise from the Redmond School Board for […]

Opinion

Vote Yes on Measure 117

The Source opinion

by The Source Editorial Board September 25, 2024November 7, 2024

Vote Yes on Measure 117 The case for ranked-choice voting may be most easily understood when looking at recent presidential elections, where “splitting the vote” has had some very real consequences. Maybe you were a Bernie Sanders supporter, but you felt the need to vote for Hillary Clinton so as not to by consequence throw […]

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