The Great Destination Resort Land Rush

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The Great Destination Resort Land Rush

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Deschutes County already has far more destination resorts than any other county in Oregon. And according to calculations by Paul Dewey of Central Oregon LandWatch, if all the destination resorts now on the drawing boards statewide were actually developed, the number of units at such resorts would triple.
Meanwhile the county is stuck in the deepest, darkest dungeon of the deepest, darkest economic depression to hit the US in 80 years. Resorts that by now were supposed to be covered with golf courses and multimillion-dollar custom homes remain covered with sagebrush.
So what, in light of this situation, does Deschutes County think we need? More destination resorts, of course.

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It Rhymes With Mace: Going for Broke, town horror meetings and more!

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The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He has most recently been seen in PDX, then fleeing to swim across the Columbia, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
She Made It!
Sonia Sotomayor became the first Hispanic and third female to wear a long, black robe and decide on important issues like how to use archaic maritime laws to spare Exxon-Mobil a few billion for the Exxon-Valdez spill, and whether the parents of stoners have the right to sue public schools to recoup the cost of “special education.” Congrats, Sonia! Prediction: In the next Supreme Court session, Justice Sotomayor will be the swing vote on whether Gata Gonzales illegally withheld important information from a bunch of white guys before taking all of their money in Texas Hold'em… Must a wise Latino woman show her cards first? In a related note: The Senate's 68-31 vote to confirm Sotomayor proves that the GOP has officially accepted its minority party status for the next four decades, after foolishly stonewalling a nominee from the fastest growing group of Americans.

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Emotional Rescue: Saving the Lost Dogs on the streets of Santiago

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For better or worse, “Leap and the net will appear” is an adage I can live by naturally. Most recently, this took me to Chile with the intention of making a film about homeless dogs.
My inspiration for “Lost Dogs” came from a YouTube video that shows a dog on a busy Santiago highway as he risks his life to save another injured canine. The clip prompted my research into the estimated 250,000 dogs that live on the streets of Chile's capital city.
Once I had my concept – to look for the “hero dog” and while I was at it, film his 250,000 friends – it wasn't long before I took the plunge, arriving in Santiago with my Spanish vocabulary of five words, video and stills cameras, tripod, 50 hours of tape and clothes for any eventuality over the next two months. A couple of days behind me was Chris Mortimer, a photographer introduced to me only two weeks prior as someone crazy enough to accompany me.

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Enough is Enough

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Over my lifetime, I have watched personal liberty and freedom slowly ebb away by what appeared to be reasonable explanations about what was “for the public good” from our federal government.
But I am horrified to see how quickly, in the last few months, the federal government has encroached on so many of our individual rights and freedoms – to the point of total socialism.

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Back From Phishin’

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The Blender, along with several other Bendites, have safely returned from the Gorge Amphitheater where we took in not one but two glorious days of music from Phish.
We may not be Phish experts, per say, but we think this pair of weekend shows were right up there with the best the band has played — especially Saturday night’s show.

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