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May Elections
Election Day is May 18! While it seems like we’ve barely caught our collective breath since the raucous November 2020 election season, it’s time once again to vote. By the time you read this, ballots will already be on their way to registered voters across Oregon—and inside these pages, you’ll find our endorsements for local…
Listen: Source Weekly Update 5/6 🎧
In this week’s podcast, we look at La Niña’s deficit of rainfall and what results this will have on the wildfire system, and talk about a golf course that’s being sold to make room for new housing. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 5/5
High Risk Returns
The Bend-La Pine Schools district will move to a modified schedule as cases among young people rise, even as Deschutes County is lowered from Extreme Risk to High Risk in the governor’s risk-protection framework. In the High-Risk category, people will be able to eat at restaurants, exercise at gyms and go to indoor entertainment establishments…
Q&A with Becky Johnson
Former Oregon State University President F. King Alexander resigned on March 23 after the law firm Husch Blackwell found that sexual misconduct reports were routinely mishandled at Louisiana State University under Alexander’s presidency from 2013 to 2019. Less than a month after Alexander’s resignation, OSU-Cascades Vice President Becky Johnson was confirmed by OSU’s Board of Trustees…
4 Peaks Goes Miniature
In hopes of not sounding like a broken record, maybe it’s best to start this story not with a cry for how live music has been altered the past two years, but instead to just say that 4 Peaks Music Festival is happening in 2021. For now, that is. And under different circumstances. But fingers…
Boba Blockage
“Sometimes you are out of boba before you finish the actual drink. It’s the worst feeling.” —Feed Meimei, on Youtube Drinkers of bubble tea are bracing for the worst. Boba balls, the tapioca-based spheres that collect at the bottom of a cup of this wildly popular Taiwanese beverage are reportedly in short supply. Bubble tea…
Bend Farmers Market Opens May 5, with COVID-Friendly Options
In a sure sign of spring, Market Wednesdays in downtown Bend start again May 5. The Bend Farmers Market will be open for in-person strolling from 2 to 6pm every Wednesday through Oct. 13. Over 30 local vendors will be set up in Brooks Alley, between Franklin and Minnesota streets (near Mirror Pond). New offerings…
Return of the Vaux’s Swifts
The Vaux’s (rhymes with foxes) swift is a 4½-inch long, fast-moving bird (it’s a swift after all) that resembles “a cigar with wings.” The smallest of all North American swifts, these aerial acrobats put on a nightly show during their annual migrations through downtown Bend. From their winter range which is the tropics of Mexico…
A Backyard Escape for Restless Bendites
For many marginalized groups, accessing the great outdoors is not as easy as it should be. According to a 2019 Outdoor Participation Report published by the Outdoor Industry Association, over 70% of outdoor participants were Caucasian and less than 50% were women. AdvenutreUs Women’s mission aims to break the barriers that prevent women and people…
Addressing Inequities in the Cannabis Industry
The goals of the Black Lives Matter movement go far beyond addressing the relationship police have with the Black community. (Spoiler: It’s really, really…not good…y’all.) It also seeks to address the manner in which the United States treats Black people on a number of other fronts. Three of those fronts have multiple intersections: cannabis, the…
May the Source Be With You
So those were definitely some Oscars, huh? There were definitely a few very good choices (Daniel Kaluuya winning Best Supporting Actor and Youn Yuh-jung winning Best Supporting Actress were chef’s kiss), but if that wasn’t the most strangely anticlimactic ending of the Academy Awards of all time, then I don’t know what could top it.…
Congratulations to Hasson’s Top 40 Performers of 2020
Sponsored story: Join us as we congratulate and honor Hasson’s Top 40 Performers of 2020! Amid such a challenging and unique year for the industry, these 40 brokers continued to lead the way, proving that being a top performer is more than numbers. Together, these individuals achieved a combined total of more than $1.2 billion of closed sales volume. But of greater…
Life In The Fastened Lane & Wait Problem
Life In The Fastened Lane I’ve been with my boyfriend for a year, and I love him, but I also love my independence. I need alone time, meaning space from him and everybody. He wants to spend every minute together and seems to need constant closeness to feel okay. Is this a bad sign —…
Free Will Astrology—Week of April 29
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In her poem “Mirror,” Taurus poet Halina Powiatowska wrote, “I am dazed by the beauty of my body.” I applaud her brazen admiration and love for her most valuable possession. I wish more of us could genuinely feel that same adoration for our own bodies. And in accordance with current astrological…
Permanent Parklets
Whole industries fought for survival after state mandates across the country sought to reduce exposure to COVID-19 last spring. Restaurants in particular scrambled to find ways to stay in business through carryout and delivery, but were largely unable to recoup their losses. “Not every business model would have made sense to just go over to…
Noticias en Español
Los Condados de Crook y Deschutes, junto con otros 13 condados, fueron designados el martes por la Gobernadora del estado de Oregon, Kate Brown, como condados de riesgo extremo, luego que el número de hospitalizaciones en el estado aumentará a más de 300. El cambio de nivel entrará en efecto el viernes y los datos…
Ending a Health Care Loophole
The passage of a bill by the Oregon Senate is not typically news in and of itself, but in this era of GOP caucus slowdowns and staged walkouts to hold up voting, standoffs between parties, a 2020 session where only three bills passed into law, and a 2021 session where, nearly four months into this…
Enterprise Zones Redrawn
Deschutes County Commissioners approved redrawn boundaries to the Bend Enterprise Zone at their meeting on Wed., April 14, moving one step closer towards final approval from the state. Enterprise Zones are touted as one of the key benefits for businesses in Oregon, and Bend’s hosts 54 companies that have created over 1,400 jobs and invested $256…
Letters to the Editor 4/29/21
Editor’s note: Indoor dining, you were fun. For those of us who have bought and sold the notion that having our society get vaccinated would be the key to never seeing our bars, restaurants and other establishments closed to COVID-19 ever again, the advent of another round of Extreme Risk for Crook and Deschutes and…
