The Tumalo Langlauf Club has worked diligently this fall to get the Meissner Community Ski Area ready for winter. Yesterday, some partiers visited the Meissner Shelter and managed to trash the place and leave beer bottles and cans and, most sadly, burn up a quantity of the wood that had been split and stored for wintertime visitors.
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Parkway Safety Starts With Landscaping
We've all been hearing about tragedies on the south end of Bend's parkway. We don't want to have people needlessly killed and injured here, or have Bend be known for its highway death trap. Certainly, an over-the-road pedestrian bridge would save lives. Considering where our tax dollars get wasted, this would be a smart alternative. But, something needs to be done now. I'm not a politician or business executive, but I've been a landscaper here since the 1970s.
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Restoring Sanity
A protester was stomped by Tea Party members this week, and that’s just a bit of the insanity.
The author is reporting from D.C., in a mall full of hipsters and hippies all looking to restore sanity, and someone named Molly.
A bizarro world was revealed on Sunday when Republican National Committee chairman Michael “Not of” Steele and Republican smear-mongerer Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove appeared on opposite talk shows. As Steele insisted on having no knowledge of shadow groups pumping billions (yes, billions – this election will cost $3.2 billion) into Congressional races on “Meet the Press,” Rove brought papers proving the dirty money and donor nondisclosures to “Face the Nation.” Steele is under fire in his party for not raising enough or supporting GOP candidates in need, yet still predicted, “An unprecedented wave on election day that’s going to surprise a lot of people.” Meanwhile, from his alternative universe, Rove is flush with cash and blaming “liberals” for inventing this mess, calling it and the Tea Party, “wholesome, patriotic and incredibly positive for the country.”
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That Weird Anti-Dallas Brown Ad
A third party attack ad on Deschutes County Commission candidate doesn’t pass the smell test.
Richard Gorby likes Tony DeBone. He really, really likes him.
He likes the Republican candidate for Deschutes County Commission so much, in fact, that he made radio ads supporting him and attacking his Democratic opponent, Dallas Brown. Recorded them in his own voice and paid for them with his own money.
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Newspaper Integrity
WTF is up with the wrap around political ads in our daily papers?
The front page of the newspaper has always been held with a certain amount of reverence within the world of journalism. So it was disappointing to see that our local newspaper saw fit to serve up this past Sunday's paper wrapped in a political ad for the extremely partisan Central Oregon Association of Realtors.
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Building A Better USB, Counting Campaign Cash and more!
A mish-mash of local, regional and national headlines from the past week.
Apple ReInvents The World
If you listened closely last Wednesday, it was possible to hear the simultaneous blowing of minds of the entire city of Cupertino, Calif., when Steve Jobs gave his keynote address to introduce the latest humanity- changing updates to Apple products. As Jobs' speech was streamed worldwide to MacBooks, iPads, iPods and iPhones, you could also hear teenagers in basements everywhere halting their Social Network – inspired hacking attempts because Jobs announced that the new MacBook Air has two USB ports.
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Dallas For Deschutes
I recently reread Lee Iacocca's book Where Have All the Leaders Gone? In his last chapter, he has a “Call to Action,” where he reiterates his “9 C's of Leadership.”
We have a unique opportunity here in Deschutes County to elect an exemplary candidate for county commissioner who embodies these important qualities of Leadership: Curiosity, Creativity, Communication, Character, Courage, Conviction, Charisma Competence and Common Sense. That candidate is Dallas Brown!
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Bulletin's Board Did a Disservice to Wyden and Readers
What’s up with the Bend Bulletin? They write an incomprehensible editorial about why we shouldn’t vote for Ron Wyden and then cut off all letters to the editor so no one can respond.
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Kozak Is the Logical Alternative
Mike Kozak is the most capable candidate running; the one who makes the most sense; the one with the proven track record. As mayor of Bend, his applied vision set the track for most of the things we now cherish about our community.
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Telfer Ain't the One
As a Bend City Councilor, the current Republican candidate for Treasurer, Chris Telfer, advocated and voted for the passage of Measure 37 in 2004. Measure 37 mandated that property owners may sue state or local government if they believe their property value is reduced by land use regulations.
The Treasurer is, of course, in charge of the state's funds.