Now or Never: County's resort map remake opens door for developers amid questions of viability

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Now or Never: County's resort map remake opens door for developers amid questions of viability

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As the de facto legal team for Deschutes County's only credible environmental watchdog group, Paul Dewey spends more time than most people thinking about destination resorts.
He thinks about the water that they suck from the ground, the cars that they put on the road, and the land that they gobble. And they've been doing a lot of gobbling.
A recent study by his organization, Central Oregon LandWatch, found that the number of resort homes and overnight units at Oregon's destination resorts is set to triple if all the recently approved and proposed resorts were completed. That's a big “if,” given that many of these resorts are located in Central Oregon where the real estate bust has been especially severe.

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The Long-Overdue OLCC Intervention

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In an intervention, the friends and family of somebody who's addicted to booze, drugs, gambling or whatever get him in a room and grill him intensively to persuade him to clean up his act.
Last week, Gov. Ted Kulongoski's office staged an intervention with the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. It was long overdue. And we sure as hell hope it works.
What prompted the intervention was a history of serious friction, going back years, between local bar, restaurant and event managers and OLCC Bend Regional Manager Jason Evers. The liquor dispensers accused Evers of acting like a banana republic dictator, enforcing OLCC rules arbitrarily, irrationally, inconsistently and in some cases vindictively.

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Take A Hike: Bill to the rescue, Touristas, the Apple conspiracy and more!

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The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is now missing and most likely deported, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
What Can't Bill Clinton Do?
When he isn't advising Hillary on foreign policy and interns on career paths, former President Bill Clinton is meeting with – What? Really? “Dear Supreme Leader” Kim Jong-Il in North Korea? Wait – Fact check! Oh ok, this makes sense: Clinton was in Pyongyang on Tuesday to try to free two CurrentTV “journalists” (Bill's VP Al Gore owns CurrentTV, enough said) who were sentenced to twelve years of hard labor after being arrested on the North Korea-China border earlier this year. Further clarification: Laura Ling and Euna Lee are getting so much attention because one of them is related to a celebrity, and hey, Bill digs babes. Regarding the unusual visit by the VIP, Asia analyst Mike Chinoy offered the obvious, “I suspect that it was made pretty clear in advance that Bill Clinton would be able to return with these two women; otherwise it would be a terrible loss of face for him.”

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Be Cool About It

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I recently had occasion to travel both downtown and to the Old Mill District for a mother-daughter movie date. Our plan to beat the heat was to grab lunch and then duck into an air-conditioned theatre to escape the soaring temperatures.

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Bend’s OLCC Regional Manager Relocated

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In a move that some bar owners will almost certainly see as long overdue, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission has moved Jason Evers, the Bend-based regional manager of the organization who has been accused by licensees as using unfair and allegedly retaliatory enforcement tactics, out of his current position to one in Medford. Also, it appears that an outside investigation into the OLCC's enforcement practices will soon be underway.

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