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For those who missed the 10pm news on KTVZ last night, you weren't alone. News Manager and Anchor Lee Anderson was conspicuously absent from last night's broadcast along with his co-anchor Molly Hendrickson.

What does a president's daughter from Texas do when she's in Bend and gets a yen for some liquid refreshment and a fellow Texan to talk with?

Remember that "tall tale" the Clintons were telling about Trina Bachtel, an expectant mother in Ohio who reportedly died because she didn't have $100 to pay for medical care? Turns out the tale wasn't as tall as it appeared.

One of our staffers was watching American Idol (for research purposes) last night on the local Fox affiliate when the screen went blank on his set as the show ran over into the time slot designated for the nightly news cast, which is beamed over from sister station KTVZ (both stations are owned by the News Press and Gazette Co out of St. Joseph Missouri.

KATU-TV in Portland is reporting a stunning development in the Oregon Democratic Senate race: Outsider Steve Novick is leading insider Jeff Merkley by double digits in a recently completed poll.

Under the headline "You Knew It Had to Happen," Jake at the Utterly Boring blog reports that T-shirts commemorating Bend's Famous Pregnant Man will go on sale soon.

At his campaign appearance at Bend High last week, Bill Clinton told a hair-raising horror story to illustrate how screwed up America's health care system is. An uninsured pregnant woman in Ohio couldn't afford prenatal care and was turned away by a hospital because she couldn't pay $100 up front, Clinton said. Later, she died after delivering a stillborn child.

When The EYE spotted an "In My View" column by somebody named Stephen Williams in this morning's Bulletin, bells went off.

Are people in Bend crazy? It's hard to draw any other conclusion from the spectacle of more than 100 of them standing outside in the cold and rain last week waiting for the grand opening of Trader Joe's.

Stop-Loss, the eagerly anticipated anti-Iraq war movie by writer-director Kimberly Pierce, opened today to generally positive reviews around the country, but a lukewarm reception in The Bulletin's "GO" magazine.