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What’s Next for the Council?

A new, directly elected mayor, and a council appointee bring changes to Bend’s City Council
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Bend City Councilor Sally Russell won the election Tuesday to become Bend’s first directly elected mayor. It was a crowded race, with six candidates in the running. According to the latest unofficial results released by the Deschutes County Clerk, Russell took 50.18 percent of the vote—amounting to 21,666 votes as of Wednesday morning. Next in […]

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Letters to the Editor

The Source Staff

Corrections: In our 10/18 endorsement in the Bend mayor’s race, we erroneously stated that sitting councilors running for mayor who did not win the mayor’s race would be removed from office. Should Bill Moseley or Sally Russell not win as mayor, they will fill the remainder of their term(s) as Councilor—not be removed. If one […]

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Over 1,000 Uber Drivers Ready to Take Central Oregon for a Ride

Uber service begins May 4 in Bend and Redmond; Sisters soon to follow
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

As of 10 am Thursday, the transportation networking app, Uber, will be open for business in Bend and Redmond. Redmond Mayor George Endicott and Bend Mayor Casey Roats took a ceremonial ride in an Uber car Wednesday, somewhat unceremoniously beginning what could be a brisk business for the San Francisco-based app that connects drivers to […]

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From Community Activist to Longtime Mayor

Bend Mayor Jim Clinton looks back at 12 years in office—and to the future
Christian Trejbal

Mayor Jim Clinton chose not to seek re-election this year to a fourth term on Bend City Council. The Source Weekly caught up with him recently to chat about the past 12 years in office, where Bend is today and what the future holds. The Past Clinton’s political journey started with elk. He and his […]

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Side Notes 8/10-8/17

Renée Alexander

Legal Pot Increases Home Prices? Since June of 2015, home prices in Bend-Redmond have increased 10.4 percent, tracking closely the 10.9 percent increase in home prices in Oregon over the past year. In fact, the Beaver State topped the list of states with the biggest increases in home prices, followed by Washington at 10.3 percent, […]

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Rethinking City Council

The Source Staff

Though City Council duties, meetings, committees, and hearings require 45 to 55 hours per week to fulfill, Bend City Councilors are considered volunteers, have no administrative support staff and receive no benefits. The archaic notion of an unpaid mayor and city council is not in step with the times within the paradigm of the exponential […]

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Are You My Mayor?

Jim Clinton plans to revisit the way Bend elects its mayor
Avatar photo Erin Rook

In Bend, the mayor is not the boss of the City. He has no more authority than his fellow city councilors and, in many ways, it is the city manager who steers the ship (and receives pay commensurate with that weighty task). And yet, the mayor serves as a figurehead, a symbol of authority, and […]

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