On Friday morning at 10am, students all over the nation walked out of their classrooms in a call to action to end gun violence. Students from area schools participated in the National School Walkout, including Summit High School and Pacific Crest Middle School students who met at Universalist Unitarian Church in Bend to write letters […]
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Redmond: An Airbnb Tax Haven No More
Short term rental app now remits 9 percent transient lodging tax
S howcasing the growing demand for Redmond short-term vacation rentals, Airbnb announced Tuesday it has begun remitting and collecting transient room taxes as of November 1. Following a similar model to Bend, there will now be an additional 9 percent transient lodging tax on all bookings. A current search for listed homes in that area, […]
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Fall Nest News
Cost of Care Paying for child care continues to be a challenge for Oregon families. Oregon was just ranked second on the list of least affordable states for child care, ranked only behind the District of Columbia, according to Care.com’s Cost of Care Survey. However, Oregonians are not the only people experiencing the rising cost […]
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Patton Oswalt Speaks
Michelle McNamara was a true crime writer who was focused on catching the The Golden State Killer: a rapist and murderer who struck throughout California from 1979 to 1986. She married comedian Patton Oswalt in 2005 and gave birth to their daughter Alice in 2009. In April of this year she died in her sleep, […]
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Goodnight & Good Luck
Early Sunday morning a man whose name I won’t type here gunned down fifty people in Pulse, the hottest gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. 50 people plus the shooter were pronounced dead, making it the deadliest shooting ever in the United States. 53 people were also wounded. According to CNN, the shooter had been interviewed […]
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2016 is starting off rough.
2016 needs to pace itself. With the passing of David Bowie a few days ago, the world was already reeling, but this morning has brought the death of the exceptionally gifted actor Alan Rickman. He is probably most famous for playing Professor Snape in the Harry Potter movies, but older folk will always remember him […]
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Bill Cosby has been formally charged with sexual assault.
The time has come. No more innuendo or jokes or innocent until proven guilty handoffs. Bill Cosby has been charged with aggravated indecent assault for his drugging and raping of a former Temple University employee that rejected his sexual advances. He was charged, booked and bail was set at a million dollars (which he had […]
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Karma is very real for Martin Shkreli
Poor Martin Shkreli. The chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals and KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc is having one hell of a year. First he becomes the target of the American media and becomes the most hated man in the country for raising the price of life saving AIDS medication by 5000 percent. Then he purchases the […]
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Rep. Knute Buehler says he won’t run for Governor
Rep. Knute Buehler (R-Bend) says that he won’t run for Governor in 2016, as he previously suggested he might, and will instead run for re-election to the Oregon House. But he did leave the door open to a gubernatorial run further in the future. “This was a highly personal rather than a political decision,” Buehler […]
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Save Pilot Butte supporter urges City to appeal land use decision
Supporters of Pilot Butte State Park have found themselves entangled in a land use process after learning about plans for a new apartment complex at the foot of the Butte. Because their concerns emerged after the public comment period for the development, members of the Save Pilot Butte group sought to appeal the development’s approval, […]