Letter of the Week: Don't Deny Inmates Correspondence

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Letter of the Week: Don't Deny Inmates Correspondence

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This week's letter comes from alert reader Tricia Knoll who makes a good case for not restricting inmate correspondences as several Oregon county jails are considering. Thanks for the letter Tricia. If you're ever in the neighborhood, drop by the Source for your bag of free coffee courtesy of Lone Pine roasters.

Recently The Oregonian had an article about upcoming county jail restrictions on inmates' right to receive mail by restricting mail to postcards. Note that the sidebar on this article mentions that Deschutes County is soon to enact this same restriction.
Yesterday's Oregonian editorial says this is a bad idea, quoting Max Williams of the Oregon Department of Corrections among others.

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Are You With Conan? Late Night Chaos at NBC

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As you may have heard, Conan O’Brien, the host of The Tonight Show released a somewhat funny, but mostly serious statement today announcing that he will not accept NBC’s offer to move to 12:05pm to accommodate the terribly nice but  less-than-hilarious Jay Leno and his self-titled show.
In the wake of the announcement it seemed every Conan fan descended on the Internet, jamming up Twitter feeds and Facebook pages with remarks in support of the lanky redhead.

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Empty Space Orchestra: On Tour

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Empty Space Orchestra is heading out on tour this week, hitting up locations that up till now had been untrodden territory for the local instrumental space rockers.
I ran into guitarist Shane Thomas last night at Parrilla Grill, where Thomas, a faithful employee of the wrap and burrito purveyor, constructed my Red Headed Stepchild (chicken, Frank’s hot sauce, Gorgonzola cheese, spinach = awesome) and chatted a bit about the tour.

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Uber Weird: talking about funky weather

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Tell me I’m mistaken about this being the funkiest winter weather I’ve ever seen in my 32 years living here in poverty with a view. First there was that freaky early snow in October followed by the Polar Express a month later, a prolonged case of the inversion blues, rain with Bend living seeming like living in Eugene, and then fog that Londoners would be proud of.

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SHOCKER: Common Sense from a Republican

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At least one prominent Oregon Republican is going to vote for Measures 66 and 67: former Labor Commissioner Jack Roberts, who gave the tax measures his reluctant endorsement in an op-ed piece in The Oregonian Thursday.
It’s “misleading to label Measures 66 and 67 ‘job-killing tax increases,’” wrote Roberts, who was labor commissioner from 1995 to 2002 and now is executive director of the Lane Metro Partnership, an economic development agency.

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It's Not the End of the World, but You Can See It from There

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Jason Evers, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission official who was removed from his Bend post for being overzealous, has been transferred to lovely Nyssa,  a Malheur County town of 3,000 people that’s about as close to Siberia as you can get and still be in Oregon.
This is the second time in Evers’s OLCC career that he’s been “voluntarily” sent to Nyssa (nickname: “Thunder Egg Capital of the World,” and no, I didn’t make that up) after overstepping his authority.

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Ashland Council Backs Cover-Up

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If you like to walk around naked, don’t try it in Ashland anymore: The city council there has enacted a ban on public nudity.
The council adopted the citywide ban Tuesday night by a 4-2 vote despite a warning from the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that it violates the Oregon Constitution’s protection of free speech.

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