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.
Expanding Meissner Is a Good Move
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Bend-LaPine School Board
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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Kitzhaber Backs Liberal Pantywaist
Steve Novick, campaigning for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, picked up a valuable endorsement this week - that of former Gov. John Kitzhaber.
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Battle for the Metolius Rolling Into Court
Central Oregon LandWatch and Friends of the Metolius are going to court to try to protect the scenic river from two planned new destination resorts.
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Last But Not Least: Oregon is in play in this year’s primary and changes could keep it that way
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
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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“Somebody Else” Makes a Good Showing
KBND-AM's on-line presidential poll found Republican nominee-apparent John McCain in the lead with 32% — not a big surprise, considering KBND's all-right-wing-all-the-time talk show lineup.
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Don Leonard tosses his hat into the ring: A talk with the Bend City Council candidate
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.
Posted inCulture
HERstory: More than a phrase: Bend’s ladies celebrate their legacy by showing off talent
The HDCs Jenni Peskin: She’s not only one of the minds behind HERstory, she’s also a performer.Women's history month is upon us, and what better time to celebrate
women than spring? Fertile, re-birthing, glorious spring! Though we
certainly do not forget women for the rest of the year, the National
Women's History Project successfully petitioned to have March adopted
as Women's History Month in 1987, 10 years after March 8 was designated
as International Women's Day.
Before the NWHP, even the concept of
women's history was unheard of. Throughout the 1970s the group worked
hard to promote the study and recognition of women's unique place in
the historical record. With this study comes the inevitable scrutiny of
the word "history" itself and in this era that has witnessed
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, most people can break it down to
read "his story." During the cultural revolution referred to as Women's
Liberation, the term "HERstory" was coined to refer to the study of the
past in which women play more than a wifely role. This year the NWHP
has chosen the theme of "Women's Art: Women's Vision." Women chosen to
be honorees by the organization include painters, sculptors and
printmakers.
Posted inOutside
Goodbye, Old Friend: A farewell to a lopped juniper
An ancient juniper falls to an unknown hand,It once stood as an Old Friend to myriad wanderers that needed a place
to rest, a place to search for food, a place for shelter, and a place
to just hang out.
When Freemont, the "Pathfinder," and Kit Carson
wandered though here in the 1840s, my Old Friend was green and robust.
Over the ensuing years it survived countless wildfires. Native
Americans and early pioneers somehow passed it by while looking for
firewood to cook their game or warm their feet.
It is now nothing
but a pile of dead wood, cast aside for some reason known to only the
person who cut it down – the delightful old juniper snag on the east
side of Highway 20, near the irrigation pivots across from the eight
mile post.