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What Changes to Title X Could Mean for Local Health Options

Trump Administration’s rule changes mean Title X doctors can’t discuss abortion with patients
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In Central Oregon, Planned Parenthood’s Bend Health Center serves around 7,000 Central Oregonians a year, according to stats provided by the Center in 2017. That’s about 600 to 700 patients a month. According to the staff there, about 96 percent of the services the Bend clinic provides is preventative—including screenings and treatment for sexually transmitted […]

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Making Sense

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It is almost getting tiring to say, but kudos to Rep. Knute Buehler. And, at some point, an elected official acting on his best judgment and breaking from traditional political party dogma will not be news. But, for the time being, when Democrats and Republicans are expected to follow the party’s playbook for most social […]

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Side Notes 3/5-3/11

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The Oregon Senate passed a bill Monday that would reconfigure the way it assesses property taxes for large data centers (think: Apple, Google, etc.) in an effort to incentivize more of the tech companies setting up shop or expanding in Central Oregon. Supporters of Senate Bill 611, including Sen. Tim Knopp (R-Bend), say it would […]

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When Corporations Took Over

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Three years ago, in mid-September, dozens of protestors, upset about economic inequalities, stalked out a park near Wall Street in Manhattan. Over the next three weeks, similar “occupy” protests sprung up from coast to coast, entrenching the concept of “the 1%” in the mentality of Americans—or, less colloquially, that a minute portion of Americans holds […]

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What in the World: Chefs, Contraception, Immigration, ‘Nice’ Guys and Beyoncé

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CHEFS: Sunriver Resort‘s Chef Travis Taylor walked away from last weekend’s Bite of Bend Top Chef competition with the highest award—and a 10″ knife forged from layered copper and brass by local blacksmith Kellen Bateham. Travis is now qualified to compete at Bite of Oregon for the title of Iron Chef Oregon. COURT: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor […]

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