Central Oregon LandWatch has come out with a detailed study of the fiscal impacts of destination resorts, and resort developers and advocates aren't going to like it one bit.
A New Look at the Numbers for Destination Resorts
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Frame Wranglers…It’s Funny as Hell
Local filmmaker Chris Kas, who works at Rage Films, but is also the brains behind a project called "Frame Wranglers" a fake reality show about a documentary team that goes looking out looking for fabled creatures, often with little success — other than making you laugh your face off. Tomorrow night (Friday) Kas is showing the third and fourth episodes of the series at Backporch Coffee Roasters (1075 Newport Ave) at 7pm.
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Dr. Telfer Prescribes a Band-Aid
State Sen. Chris Telfer has put forward what she's billing as "a community-based solution to the health care crisis." It looks to us like an idea worth exploring - but whether it's the "solution" is another story.
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Pit Bulls Got The Shaft
Because we don't take it personal when people call B.S. on our WTF?!, we're awarding this week's letter prize to Staci Bowen who makes a strong case in favor of the much maligned pit bull. Thanks for reading and responding, Staci. You can pick up your prize, an Old Mill pint glass, at our office at 704 NW Georgia.
I just wanted to let you at the Source know that I'm very disappointed in the recent WTF column featuring the legislation which would force pit bull owners to have liability insurance. The article claimed that nobody at the Source owned a pit bull, because they didn't want their faces "chewed off." I have to say, I'm ashamed of the Source for spreading even more media misinformation about these dogs.
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Hope Is Real
I just read an article re: Obama with reference to Dr. Sam Vaknin. Whoever wrote this article seems to think the American people are a bunch of sheep who can be led by one person, or persons, without any struggle. This is absolutely not true. What the author seems to forget is that there is a whole segment of middle Americans, like myself, who would not put up with this type of thing. They are usually Christians, or believers, and love their country, America.
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Being is Believing
I still believe. In a culture gone mad, calling right wrong and wrong right; calling good bad and bad good, I still believe.
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The Ski Slope Samaritan
Just wanted to say a huge Thank You to whoever found and turned in my skis in the Sunrise parking lot on Sunday. I was distracted and absent minded and left them laying next to my car.
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Equal Rights Aren’t Special Rights
The inimitable editors of Bend's daily have mocked and name-called California supporters of gay marriage with, "A temper tantrum in support of gay rights." The support group had put together what the editors called a "snarky statement," "Day Without a Gay." I can't say it's my favorite, but did it deserve "a temper tantrum" and the "infantile" behavior of what you might expect "from a 3-year-old!"
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A Guinness Alternative: Local brews to celebrate the Irish Holiday
We all know St. Patrick's Day is marked with pints of Guinness, Irish Car Bombs and lots of Irish whiskey.
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Gone to Look for America: A deep inspection of the country departs from Bend in a shag-covered RV
“She needs a name.” This is what Brad Lockwood says as he’s standing in a driveway halfway up Awbrey Butte staring at a 1979 Ford Econoline RV. He takes a long look at the 22-and-a-half foot vehicle and lights a Lucky Strike cigarette as snow flurries land on the upturned earflaps of his hunting hat. The RV actually has a name, written in brown cursive on the rear door: Van de Gran II. This is of course the name someone else slapped on it some 30 years ago and obviously won’t do because this isn’t just an old RV – it’s Lockwood’s home and office for the next two months. This house on wheels will be the vessel in which Lockwood, a Brooklyn author who has in the past two years made Bend a second home, will sail across the country for the purpose of creating an Internet television show that could become a cable television show or eventually be made into a documentary. Accompanied by video editor and all around “crazy saint” Nicolas Mamula, who prefers to go by the moniker Hank Saga, the duo will be traveling some 200 miles per day creating 52 10-minute segments that will be immediately uploaded to their website, or-bust.com. The purpose? It’s best to let Lockwood explain it.