Props to Dr. Nathan Boddie for his piece in favor of health care reform.
Lotto Numbers Don't Add Up
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Who Gives A Sh#@?
Dear Boot,
So that's what's wrong with Bend? Goose poop that hinders using the park? You're given a column to bitch about anything you want and you pick geese? What's wrong with you?
You wasted half a page and go off about how bird droppings 'ruin' the park? And then you mock the people who try and fix it!
Well I know life sucks, however complaining about bird shit should be really low on the list. You could have used that space to actually tell your readership something useful.
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Fuzzy, Fuzzy Math
Last week The Boot opined that tavern owners would only take a $6,300 hit if their share of video lottery game revenues drops from roughly 24% to 15%. I suspect that The Boot may have attended the Timothy Geithner/Charles Rangel School of Fuzzy Math and/or he/she got a head start sampling some of the delicious barrel-aged brew for the Little Woody festival.
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My Country 'Tis of Thee: Take time to remember our wild heritage
The early stunning vistas of beautiful America gave rise to some of the best known and most evocative writings, song and poetry of this wide and sweeping land, a land to the earliest of inhabitants and those who came after, of wildness, diamond-blue skies and waves that tumbled onto golden, unsullied beaches.
“America the Beautiful” contains some of those soaring words:
“O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain!”
The Wilderness Act of 1964 recognizes wilderness, “.
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A Prayer For The Wandering Eye
Dear Mr. Miller,
I hope this letter finds you in good health and enjoying your food and plain beer.
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Living With Lyme Disease
You never know what you live amongst or what you're exposed to. Lyme disease is something we hear more frequently, but often played down.
Posted inNews
Looking For Java Love
I’m giving up coffee. Not because of some medical reason but for the simple reason that I can’t find a coffee shop that I like to drink my morning cup.
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These United States tonight at the Silver Moon…and there’s a new Pearl Jam album out
Tuesday nights typically aren't the most fun times of the week, but tonight is an exception. These United States, the much-talked-about folkie indie rock band from a combination of Washington, DC and Kentucky, is landing at the Silver Moon Brewing Co.
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A Job Well Done
Every so often a Bend citizen comes up with an idea that he or she feels will benefit the community and sets about their task quietly and effectively. They work the system the right way not making demands or braying in the press but with civility, working in an organized fashion making sure that the most minor details are taken care of properly.
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Dealing With the New “Slacker” Economy
The Wall Street Journal has published a first-rate piece on Bend's economic debacle, using it as a microcosm for what's going on nationally.
The story (pretty long, but well worth reading) begins by describing anecdotally how the collapse of Bend's economy has created “slack” – a gap between the economy's productive capacity and what's actually being used:
“A year and a half of recession has left local manufacturer Bright Wood Corp.