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Feds Crack Down on E-Cigs

Local campaigns aim to alert adults about marketing tobacco to youth

They’re so small you might mistake them for USB devicesโ€”but those small e-cigarette devices are the subject of big discussions with the Food and Drug Administration. In September, the FDA declared that the use of “e-cigs” has reached “an epidemic proportion,” according to a report in The New York Times, saying that more than two […]

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Camping at Juniper Ridge

Local officials wrestle with what to do with people living on publicly owned land

Traveling along the bumpy, dusty roads that weave through the property owned by the City of Bend and the Central Oregon Irrigation District, you might see remnants of tents, tarps, a few cars and piles of household items. You’ll also see creative engineeringโ€”a house made out of tarps and old crates and a greenhouse full […]

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Displacing the Displaced

Redmond’s homeless find blockades to encampments. Deschutes County says it’s a “and-use issue; COID plans to sell parcel for a reported $8 million.

Estimates vary, but soon 200 to 400 people will be finding a new place to call “home,” packing up their motorhomes, tents and tarps and hitting the road to find unoccupied land on which to settle. Large boulders or physical gates sit at the head of two main roads leading to a swath of land […]

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