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To all Bend City Council Members,
As a homeowner in the city of Bend I am very thankful that the [Land Conservation Development Commission] was watching out for our best interest with respect to this ridiculous UGB plan.
You probably didn't hear much about it during the local, regional and national television election night coverage and it's likely that you only caught a brief news story about it in the days that followed, but Measure 74, the Oregon voter initiative that would have created a state-regulated medical marijuana dispensary system, did not pass. Also, in California, Proposition 19, which would have made small amounts of marijuana legal in the state, was voted down. In the middle of the NBC News election coverage, Brian Williams, still on camera at near 1 a.m. in New York City and appearing a bit fatigued, only jokingly commented on Prop. 19's failure when the returns came in. With the sweeping Congressional wins by Republicans, the din surrounding all things Tea Party and the remarkably contentious and ultimately close gubernatorial race here in Oregon, pot didn't make the sort of waves that grabbed headlines.
On what would've been John Lennon's 70th birthday, comes the docudrama Nowhere Boy, which chronicles Lennon's early years in Liverpool and the women who were instrumental in raising him. Or more aptly put, who provided him with the trauma that fueled his creativity.
During the years I ran a small publishing business, I got on what often seems to be every North American companys’ public relations release list. Today, I typically get from 30 to 50 e-mail public relations releases a day.
After almost ten long months in television exile, Conan O’Brien returned to late-night television last night with the debut of his new hour-long TBS show, aptly titled, Conan.
The show is, for the most part, identical to his old Late Night show, and that’s totally fine by me.
I just talked to Tom Rice, a local former chef and author of a new book (only available online for now at eatefficiently.com) called The I'd-Rather-Not Cook Book: Bachelor(ette) Culinary Science.
Whenever a Democrat wins a close statewide race in Oregon, we hear Republicans grumbling that those damn liberal elitists in Portland and Multnomah County gave the election to him. Sometimes, if they’re in a really bad mood, they’ll say they “stole” the election for him.
The third qualifying round of Central Oregon’s Last Comic Standing is tonight at the Old Stone Church (8pm, $5, 21 and up) and guess what? I’m hosting it!
That means I’ll be up there saying things like “Who’s ready to laugh?” and “You know what I hate about airplane food?” and other HILARIOUS phrases before the far more hilarious local comics take the stage for five minute sets in the hope of making it onto the next rounds and a shot at the $5,000 in prizes.
On stage tonight will be Stan Whitton, Max Guinn, Shane Coffey, Steve Unbankes, Mishal Khan, Jake Woodmansee, Kelly Edwards, Danny Yarborough, Stephanie Lester and Dakota Faxon.
Oregonian political blogger Jeff Mapes has an interesting analysis of how John Kitzhaber was able to eke out a razor-thin victory over Chris Dudley for the governorship. Some of the main points:
The Ground Game: Democrats made the most of their 10% registration edge in the state by mounting an intensive canvassing and phone banking campaign to make sure Democrats actually voted.
Miracles do happen. I arrived back at my San Francisco Bay area hotel last Saturday night after swilling cocktails and eating fatty finger food while watching the Giants lose to the Rangers in Game three of the World Series to find my wife intently watching the Ducks-Trojans game on TV.
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