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How will automation transform the tourism industry? 🎧 [with podcast]

Todd Montgomery, OSU-Cascades professor of hospitality, discusses tech advancements in the travel and leisure sector, and brings an international perspective to the debate about a post-COVID economic recovery
Laurel Brauns

For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast, we talk with Todd Montgomery, a business and hospitality professor at Oregon State University – Cascades. His research focuses on automation and technology in the tourism industry from both the perspective of workers and customers. He’s the co-host and co-producer of “Tech Trek,” a TV show highlighting innovative […]

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The Source Weekly Update 7/15/20 🎧

From the Jefferson County drought, to the North American Beaver, this week its all about water!
The Source Staff

In this week’s Source Weekly update we’re focusing on water: we explore the struggles of farmers in Jefferson County during a drought year and the importance of the North American Beaver to our water system. Finally we’ll finish with a summery of the best movies, shows and books of 2020 (so far). All in this […]

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Environmental Watchdog: Central Oregon LandWatch Executive Director Ben Gordon 🎧 [with podcast]

Gordon will lead the organization’s efforts to enforce Oregon’s land use laws and protect local rivers, farm lands and forests
Laurel Brauns

For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast, we talk with Ben Gordon, the head of Central Oregon LandWatch, a local environmental nonprofit. COLW has been working behind the scenes for decades to mitigate the effects of urban development and wasteful water use. Gordon started as the new executive director of Central Oregon LandWatch on June […]

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Source Weekly Update 7/8/20 🎧

To wear or not to wear? The grey area of wearing a mask in public, and the impacts COVID has had on Bend’s tourism based economy.
The Source Staff

In this week’s Source Weekly Update were focusing on the grey area connected to wearing masks in public. Later, we’ll talk about Bend’s tourism and the role it has been playing during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the economic impacts the city of Bend is facing due to the pandemic. All in this week’s […]

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Former Bend Mayor: Jeff Eager on Local Government 🎧 [with podcast]

Jeff Eager, author of the “Bend Business Roundup,” shares his views on lockdowns, protests, public health and polarization
Avatar photo Laurel Brauns and Aaron Switzer

For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast, we talk with Jeff Eager who is a business attorney and former mayor of Bend. He shares his perspective on the coronavirus lockdowns, the protests against police brutality and the need for competent leadership in the wake of a worldwide pandemic. He attributes increasing polarization to the media’s focus […]

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Source Weekly Update Podcast 7/1/20 🎧

A look into Redmond’s economy and Redmond’s new innovative ways to keep the fourth festive.
The Source Staff

In this weeks Source Weekly update were focusing on Redmond: why Redmond’s economic recovery is looking stronger than Bend’s, how Central Oregon’s tourism-driven economy is responding to COVID, and new innovative ways Redmond is keeping the fourth of July festive while adhering to COVID restrictions. All in this week’s Source Weekly Update. Source Weekly – […]

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The Long Slog Back to Baseline 🎧 [with podcast]

In Redmond, an economic recovery that’s looking slightly stronger than Bend
Laurel Brauns

Adapt. Evolve. Support. These words were a common theme among Redmond’s small business owners who have turned towards one another and the City of Redmond for support during the darkest economic times in a nearly a century. Jon Cruz, along with his wife Katie, owns HIIT Logic, a boutique gym that hosts small workout classes […]

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Source Weekly Update Podcast 6/24/20 🎧

The story behind Bend’s “Rock Box” party bus, campers leave Juniper Ridge and more in this week’s Source Weekly Update
The Source Staff

In this week’s podcast: Local runners adjust their training with no Olympic Trials, Juniper Ridge campers move on, and the story behind the “Rock Box,” the party bus that rolls around Bend, all in this week’s Source Weekly Update. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 6/24/20

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A Central Oregon “Dreamer” on the Supreme Court’s DACA Decision 🎧

A local college student shares her reaction to the recent ruling by the nation’s highest court
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Liliana Bernabe was featured in the 2018 Source Women’s Issue, sharing her story of living in the U.S., after coming to the country from Mexico as a young child. The Source checked back in with Bernabe following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the Trump Administration’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals […]

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Paralytic Economy: A State Economist’s Predictions for Recovery 🎧 [with podcast]

Josh Lehner takes a deep dive into the economic impacts of declining tourism revenues, Oregon’s “kicker” tax and remote workers
Laurel Brauns

For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast, our guest is Josh Lehner, an Oregon state economist whose work has been published in the New York Times, NPR and the Washington Post. With a particular focus on the outlook for Central Oregon, Josh talks about the region’s strong professional services sector and how these types of […]

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