Not Your Average Joe

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Not Your Average Joe

Eric Flowers

Today I read the official announcement of the opening of Trader Joe's on March 28. This exciting, quite longed for and overdue event is finally coming to Bend.
I have been a fan of Trader Joe for so many years that it dates me. I know there are many other fans chomping at the bit, hearing it discussed at the gym, in the grocery store, and almost any place people gather… "Have you heard yet when Trader Joe's is opening? Oh, you don't know about Trader Joe? Let me tell you"

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Blacked Out of the Debate

Eric Flowers

I recently sent this e-mail to NBC, parent company of MSNBC:
I have a philosophical issue concerning your showing of the recent Democratic presidential debate.
In my home town, Bend, Oregon, the only way to watch this debate was to subscribe to a premium cable package. This seems to be counter to the way democracy is intended to work.

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Expanding Meissner Is a Good Move

Eric Flowers

In the article "Whose Playground" (Feb. 21, 2008) author H. Bruce Miller and those interviewed failed to mention the benefits of the groomed ski trails at Meissner Sno-Park that hundreds of Central Oregonians enjoy every week. Dale Neubauer of Wild Wilderness complained, "If you go up there and you have a busload or 50 or 60 kids unloading for practice your experience has been changed and you need to go somewhere else." This is in reference to a local high school ski team.

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Bend-LaPine School Board

H. Bruce Miller

Picking the top administrator for a big public agency can involve a delicate balancing act. The candidates you're screening have the right to a certain amount of privacy. But the community has a right to know something about the people being considered for a vital job and the process for considering them.

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Last But Not Least: Oregon is in play in this year’s primary and changes could keep it that way

Eric Flowers

A couple of weeks ago on a rainy Tuesday morning, Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury shuffled papers on his desk when his assistant informed him of a discreet caller on the line. It was President Clinton, and this time the phone call wasn’t to discuss personal pleasantries. Bradbury worked on Clinton’s presidential campaigns in 1991 and 1995, and both of their daughters, Chelsea Clinton and Zoe Bradbury, attended Stanford University together in the late 1990s
The former president was calling Bradbury, one of Oregon’s 12 so-called Super Delegates — there are 796 nationwide — to persuade him to cast his vote for Hillary rather than Barack Obama

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The Skinny on Sizemore

H. Bruce Miller

Love him or hate him - and it seems that nobody's in between - you have to agree that Bill Sizemore has been a major mover and shaker in Oregon politics for the past 15 years. The anti-tax, anti-government, anti-union crusader hasn't written his autobiography yet, but if you want a comprehensive low-down on what he's been up to since 1993, Democracy Reform Oregon has it.

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Don Leonard tosses his hat into the ring: A talk with the Bend City Council candidate

The Source Staff

With the election season coming up and candidates beginning to work
their ways out of the woodwork, it's hard to say if there's going to be
any barn-burning races quite yet. But in the realm of the Bend City
Council, there's been some rumblings as past planning commission and
budget committee member Don Leonard threw his hat into the ring for the
council's Position 4, currently held by Jim Clinton. We chatted it up
with Leonard, and here's what he had to say about leadership,
affordable housing, and what the public wants from their city
councilors.

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