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Bend Don’t Break is the newest podcast series from the Source Weekly, hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer, who started Bend’s first and only alternative weekly two decades ago. Aaron dives into range of topics relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic like the economy, the local anti-lockdown movement, mental health effects of social isolation and much more. 

This week we talk with Damon Runberg, a regional economist for Central Oregon. Damon offers some expertise about tourism trends, unemployment and some hope for the future.

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This article appears in Mar 25 – May 20, 2020.

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Bend Don’t Break: New Podcast, Hosted by Publisher Aaron Switzer

by Aaron Switzer, The Source - Bend, Oregon
April 29, 2020

<h1>Bend Don’t Break: New Podcast, Hosted by Publisher Aaron Switzer</h1> <p class="byline">by Aaron Switzer, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />April 29, 2020</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">B</span>end Don't Break is the newest podcast series from the <i>Source Weekly</i>, hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer, who started Bend's first and only alternative weekly two decades ago. Aaron dives into range of topics relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic like the economy, the local anti-lockdown movement, mental health effects of social isolation and much more.&nbsp;</p> <p>This week we talk with&nbsp;Damon Runberg, a regional economist for Central Oregon. Damon offers some expertise about tourism trends, unemployment and some hope for the future.</p> <p>Look for updates every week!</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/the-central-oregon-economy-in-a-pandemic" title="The Central Oregon Economy in a Pandemic" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">The Central Oregon Economy in a Pandemic</a></div> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/bend-dont-break-new-podcast-hosted-by-aaron-switzer-12432430/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=28752&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/bend-dont-break-new-podcast-hosted-by-aaron-switzer-12432430/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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