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Local Columnist Lily Raff Gets Op-Ed in NY Times

One thing you should do today is read Lily Raff's op-ed about hunting and the NRA, published in the New York Times on April 24.
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One thing you should do today is read Lily Raff’s op-ed about hunting and the NRA, published in the New York Times on April 24.
The longtime Bulletin reporter and columnist lays out one hell of a well-researched and well-written argument for why hunters and NRA members are not one and the same.

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Another Pulitzer Prize Awarded to an Alt Weekly! The Stranger’s Eli Sanders wins in 2012

Sanders’ haunting story brings home the Pulitzer Prize. 2007 was the last time an alt-weekly writer won the prestigious award.
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Eli Sanders, associate editor at The Stranger, was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his 2011 story The Bravest Woman in Seattle.
Sanders’ gripping narrative recounts the horrifying experience of a Seattle woman who survived an attack that left her partner dead.

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Hey punks- you just got lucky

The city council has banned smoking in the downtown parking garage.
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To those of you who like to hang around the Mirror Pond Gallery and smoke in the nearby parking lot- you just got lucky.
The Bend City Council was considering making it illegal to smoke in any city parking lot at its regular meeting last night.

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Food cart owners relieved

There will be no food cart regulations – at least for now.
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There will be no food cart regulations—at least for now. 
The Bend City Council decided to hold off on passing new rules that would have forced some food carts to upgrade the locations of their carts with potentially costly additions such as parking, landscaping and possibly even paving.

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Saving Grace opens new center

Women and children experiencing domestic or sexual assault related violence will soon have a new place to get help.
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Women and children experiencing domestic or sexual assault related violence will soon have a new place to get help.
It’s called the Bend Crisis Center and Saving Grace, Central Oregon’s primary resource for people experiencing such violence, will open the location in the coming weeks.

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Oregon Capitol News goes bust

Another casualty of the troubled journalism industry announced defeat today
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Another casualty of the troubled journalism industry announced defeat today. Oregon Capitol News, an online news site devoted to political and investigative reporting in Salem, said today that it will shut down immediately, according to a news release.

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Director of Human Dignity Coalition to step down

Bruce Morris will leave position as director of the Human Dignity Coalition in April.
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The executive director of the Human Dignity Coalition announced yesterday that he will leave the organization.
Bruce Morris, who has led the nonprofit devoted to equality for members of the LGBTQ community since January 2011, said he will leave his position in mid-April to return to his career in law with a firm where he was formerly employed.

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