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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 July 17, 2024October 25, 2024

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 July 10, 2024July 12, 2025

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 July 10, 2024April 27, 2025

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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Letters to the Editor 07/04/2024

by The Source Staff July 3, 2024August 31, 2024

An open letter to Reps. Kropf and Levy and Senate candidate Broadman I am sure that you saw the recent reports of the huge bed shortage that exists in regard to addicts seeking help towards recovery. The changes made to Measure 110 say that if an addict is arrested he/she can voluntarily be diverted to […]

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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 July 3, 2024February 6, 2025

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 June 26, 2024December 22, 2024

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 June 26, 2024August 21, 2024

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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Letters to the Editor 06/20/2024

by The Source Staff June 19, 2024August 28, 2024

RE: A Beautiful Five Feature, 6/13 I have lived and worked in this area for 35 years, 8 of which were on the McKenzie River. Blue Pool, (aka Tamolitch Falls), Sahalie and Koosah Falls are all beautiful and well loved, but as our population increases and people are drawn to these delights, it is troublesome […]

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Public Lands Rule: A New Era for American Land Management

We may not see the effects of this change for quite some time, but we’re betting our grandchildren will thank us

by The Source Editorial Board June 19, 2024July 14, 2024

You may not have heard much about it, but a massive change just happened on public lands — one that might begin to reverse a trend of over-extraction and land degradation in the United States. Our grandchildren may one day thank us. On June 10, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management put its Public Lands […]

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Letters to the Editor 06/13/24

by The Source Staff June 12, 2024August 31, 2024

Bend’s identity crisis Bend’s identity crisis is self evident when it cannot complete a tree preservation code. Trees are vital to carbon sequestration and cool cities of concrete. Bend spouts it needs housing but then stalls the housing to build a second windowless big box Costco on a site with extraordinary mountain views now scraped […]

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