Attention all you newbies to Bend!! Especially the pop tart, 20-something babes who think it's so cute to let their dogs run free on the First Street Rapids River Trail while hanging onto UNATTACHED leashes. Hint: the leash attaches to your dog's collar.
Your Pooch is a Pain
Posted inOpinion
Concealed Weapons Story is a Joke
Normally I would consider responding to the content of this "newspaper" as beneath me, because it would only serve to lend legitimacy to the unvarnished bias, circular logic, shrillness, ideological hegemony and pure hatred spewed weekly by this rag.
However, I had to make an exception for your 'Armed in Oregon' diatribe, which was only exceptional for being the most pathetic and unimaginative case for gun control I've ever read.
Posted inOpinion
Godvertising Part Deux
I wrote the original LOTW regarding the godvertising banners, and am thrilled that it has opened a dialogue.
LC, you raise an interesting point: you drive to our neighborhood from Alfalfa.
Posted inNews
Smith’s Fuzzy Numbers
You've probably seen the TV ad accusing Jeff Merkley, Gordon Smith's Democratic rival for the US Senate, of voting for $2 billion worth of new taxes as a member of the Oregon House. Smith has been repeating the same charge as he stumps around the state.
Posted inNews
More Legal Headaches for Sizemore
Conservative political activist Bill Sizemore, who's had his share of legal problems, just got another one: An Oregon progressive organization filed a criminal complaint today charging him and his associates with fraud in gathering signatures for initiative petitions.
Posted inNews
The Weirdness Continues
Is this Central Oregon's Summer of Weirdness? First we had the Pregnant Man giving birth to a baby girl, then the Balloon Man flying all the way from Bend to Idaho in a lawn chair … and now comes news that doctors have removed a 140-pound tumor from a Redmond woman.
Posted inNews
Treasurer Race Turns Into an Alley Fight
You wouldn't normally expect a campaign for the prosaic office of state treasurer to get down and dirty, but the race between Republican Allen Alley and Democrat Ben Westlund just did.
Posted inNews
When Bicyclists Go Wild
You think things are weird in Bend? Over in Portland, open war seems to be breaking out between motorists and bicyclists.
Posted inOpinion
City Is All Wet On Watering
Does anyone else see the irony of receiving city of Bend water conservation mailings when if you take a short walk anywhere in Bend you'll find gallons of water soaking the pavement? The other night I was walking down Awbrey Dr. when a sprinkler must have malfunctioned because there was a small river flowing alongside me.
Posted inCulture
Deschutes Brewery: Black Butte Double XX
Editor's Note: This is the first in an occasional column spotlighting local beers
and breweries
My own research into beer drinking habits leads me to believe that the number of true "porter" aficionados is a small one. With its big malty body, and chocolate overtones, a good porter pretty much overwhelms the palate - it's the drinking equivalent of double fudge cake.