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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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Source Weekly Update Podcast 6/17/20

C.O. Pride goes virtual, investigating a knee-on-neck incident in Deschutes County and more in this week’s podcast
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

In this week’s podcast: Investigating a knee-on-neck incident in Deschutes County, Central Oregon Pride goes virtual and zero cases of COVID-19 found in the OSU TRACES study. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 6/17/20

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Source Weekly Update Podcast 6/10/20 🎧

Body cams for Bend PD, budget cuts elsewhere for the City of Bend, and updates on the COVID-19 sewer study
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In this week’s Source Weekly Update podcast: Body cams for Bend Police, but budget cuts for other City of Bend departments—and an update on what researchers studying Bend’s sewage are finding in regards to COVID-19! Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 6/10/20

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Moving Forward Together 🎧 (with podcast)

A chat with our 2019 Woman of the Year and the founder of the Love Your Neighbor project
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Erika McCalpine, a business professor at Oregon State University-Cascades, was our 2019 Woman of the Year. This February, McCalpine and the Source launched the Love Your Neighbor project, highlighting the experiences and voices of people of color in Central Oregon. This week, I sat down with McCalpine to talk about this moment in history. Source […]

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The Spanish Flu in Bend and Beyond 🎧 [with podcast]

What was Bend like back in 1918? How did Americans respond to the Spanish flu?
Laurel Brauns

As Americans desperately seek to forecast the future of the coronavirus pandemic, some look to history, and to the 1918 flu pandemic especially, to make sense of a world which has become unpredictable and chaotic. Two Oregon historians share local and national stories of the “Spanish flu” and how somethings still haven’t changed a hundred […]

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Source Weekly Update Podcast 5/27/20

Deschutes County gets an “F” after a resurgence of cases, OSU researchers head to Bend and more in this week’s podcast
The Source Staff

In this week’s Source Weekly Update podcast: Deschutes County gets an “F” after a resurgence of cases, OSU researchers head to Bend to survey people about COVID prevalence and Bend moves forward with its Core Area project. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update Podcast 5/27/20

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The Urban/Rural Divide, Internet Edition 🎧 [with podcast]

Many rural homes don’t have internet access—making online school a challenge. Educators and business pros talk about working to change that
Laurel Brauns

For politicians east of the Cascades, the urban/rural divide is a popular talking point. But the extreme disparities that can exist between urban and rural students is more than a talking point—and in the age of COVID-19, it’s playing out as students try to do school, from home, in the midst of a pandemic. By […]

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