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The Ongoing Circus of the Traveling Library

Try to keep up as we outline what users of the Deschutes Public Library are going to experience in the coming years
by The Source Editorial Board

Try to keep up as we outline what users of the Deschutes Public Library are going to experience in the coming years. As we outlined in a news story last week, DPL is in the midst of building its big new “Central Library” on the far-east side of Bend – a location selected secondarily, after […]

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Letters to the Editor 07/18/24

by The Source Staff

RE: On E-Bikes In The Forest, Data Brings Clarity Opinion, 7/11 Based on articles like this, I’d say that there isn’t much hope for the future of humanity! It doesn’t take much brain-power to see that an e-bike allows one to travel much farther than one can on a regular mountain bike, which already allows […]

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Limits on Tech Use in Schools Have a Clear Benefit

As we’ve seen with things like tobacco, sometimes the only thing to do to solve a problem as large as the one we are currently seeing among our youth is to regulate it.
by The Source Editorial Board

Just before the end of the school year, a group called Well Wired began a campaign that aims to get local schools to reconsider how they use technology in classrooms. During the last school board meeting of the year, Bend-La Pine Schools parents expressed concerns about the amount of time their young children were spending […]

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On E-Bikes in the Forest, Data Brings Clarity

Who are we to say who belongs and who doesn’t, when the data shows little extra trail maintenance and minimal user conflicts?
by The Source Editorial Board

In recent years, e-bikes have exploded onto the cycling scene. Parents use them to commute with their kids. People with more limited mobility embrace them as a way to get outside on two wheels. And around the country, an increasing number of trail-network managers have begun to allow limited types of them, even on singletrack […]

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Letters to the Editor 07/11/2024

by The Source Staff

Clarification: In the print edition of the 6/27 story, “Boarding Babes Branch Out,” Cady Lindsey stated, “I now have a job I love.” She is a volunteer, not an employee or business owner. Boomers are not paying the price Boomer America long ago abandoned the republic. As evidence, far too many today play bingo and […]

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Oregon Enacted Laws Around Homeless Camp Removals in 2023. After the Grants Pass Decision, Will They Be Enough?

Are we destined to listen to endless diatribes about criminalization versus compassion during this election season?
by The Source Editorial Board

There’s plenty to be concerned about with the recent Supreme Court decision that upholds a ban on camping in Grants Pass, Oregon. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision, saying that laws criminalizing sleeping in public places are not in violation of the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment protections. The case […]

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Oregon Water Use Is Moving In the Right Direction

We’d love to see Oregon’s historical water-rights laws to be more closely examined altogether, and the “use it or lose it” approach be swapped for a more conservationist one.
by The Source Editorial Board

There’s a reason we devote an issue each year to water. Not only is it the most basic of human needs, but the issues around it only continue to grow. In recent years, the farmers who actually grow crops in the region have suffered from shortages of irrigation water. A longstanding drought — which has […]

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Letters to the Editor 06/27/2024

by The Source Staff

Rodeos and Animal Cruelty: Tradition Shouldn’t Excuse Violence The phrase, “if you don’t like it, don’t go,” is a common response to those who speak up for animals abused in rodeos. This phrase is problematic when referring to a tradition that involves participants who have no choice and face injury or death. Non-human animals in […]

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