With the ever-increasing price of gas pushing more and more people to get out of their cars and onto their bikes and scooters, the numbers of these new commuters seems to be increasing everyday. This is a great thing, and a definite upside to the situation.
Think Before You Pedal
Posted inOpinion
Don’t Tread on Local Trail Builders
This letter is in response to the Letter to the Editor printed in the 6/26 issue of your paper.
Thanks for the compliments on our trail building skills (I think).
Posted inNews
Physician’s Death Might Have Been Suicide
Dr. Lynn Barton McDonald, a longtime Bend physician whose body was pulled from the Deschutes River on Monday, might have been an indirect casualty of the Bend real estate boom and bust.
Posted inNews
Merkley Ads Push the Legal Envelope
When is a campaign ad not a campaign ad? The outcome of the Gordon Smith - Jeff Merkley Senate race could hinge on the answer.
Posted inNews
“Kent Couch: Helium Hero or Balloonatic?”
That's the provocative headline on a blog post in Great Britain's The Guardian newspaper about Bend's own Kent Couch, the gas station proprietor who flew a lawn chair attached to 150 giant helium balloons from Bend to Idaho on Saturday.
Posted inNews
Things Are Stranger Here?
Is Bend, Oregon on its way to becoming known as the national capital of weirdness?
Posted inNews
Wrong Address, But Right Neighborhood
Blogger Jeff Mapes at The Oregonian discloses that the Jeff Merkley campaign made a boo-boo in its latest attack video against Gordon Smith: The posh home on Country Club Drive in Bethesda, MD that the video identifies as Smith's actually isn't.
Posted inNews
Battered Bend Builders Beg Bend for a Band-Aid
Builders in Bend want the city to kick-start their stalled industry by giving them a break on Systems Development Charges.
Posted inOpinion
Don’t Rock the Mountain
Lettter of the Week
This week’s feature letter comes from Evelyn Dong who presents us with a contrasting viewpoint on the Tumalo Backcountry proposal — from a skier’s perspective. Thanks for the letter Evelyn.
Posted inMusic
Whiskey, Wednesday and Alice Cooper
Guest Artist Jack Daniels not Pictured.Whiskey was the drink of choice last Wednesday at the Midtown
Ballroom. Yes, this is still very much a beer town, but the harder
stuff came out to greet a pair of Southern-flavored acts in Drive-By
Truckers and openers Dead Confederate. The brown stuff made an
appearance on stage as well, but we'll get to that in a moment.
Sound
Check wasn't quite sure what to expect from the Midtown on this warm
Wednesday night - mid-week shows are tough to gauge. It can either be a
total sell-out or a night of chirping crickets, we can never quite
figure it out. But a respectable crowd of seemingly die-hard Truckers
fans filled up about half of the Midtown's concrete floor, creating
what we'll call a "mid-sized" crowd.
Athens Georgia's Dead
Confederate opened the show with a slightly psychedelic,
reverb-intensive set that included a good chunk of the band's
increasingly popular EP as well as some lengthy yet soaring
improvisations.