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When It Comes to Power, Taxes and Jobs, Data Centers are Not Winners for Oregonians

State regulators just announced a one-dollar reduction in power bills for Pacific Power customers. That is not enough to win over the public about the problems data centers present.
by The Source Editorial Board

On the last day of 2025, the Oregon Public Utilities Commission sent out a press release announcing a welcome event: Customers of Pacific Power would see their power bills reduced in the new year. With recent rate increases making our power bills 50% more now than they were in 2020, hearing about a rate decrease […]

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The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Wrestling with social media’s many faces
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Social Glue: Bringing people together online, for food, fellowship… and a lot less political fervor By Nicole Vulcan A few weeks back, I tried to find a new home for an errant rooster that had accidentally made his way into my backyard flock. Turns out, giving away livestock is against Facebook rules, and my request was […]

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PSA: Facebook is Down

Facebook turns to Twitter to report widespread outage
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If you’re reading this article, you didn’t get here through Facebook. Facebook is reportedly experiencing some technical difficulties with their apps, including Instagram, and desktop version of the popular social media platform. Search the hashtag #facebookdown on Twitter and you’ll find some funny, some frantic and some just plain angry tweets regarding the outage. Facebook […]

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Investing in community digital skills education

Facebook Community Boost event stops in Redmond
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Facebook held a two-day conference in Redmond this week, featuring education sessions about their products and features for small business owners. The “Community Boost” event is one of 50 the company has scheduled this year nationwide. Over 240 people attended the two-day event, which kicked off Tuesday. Educational sessions covered everything from Facebook advertising and […]

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Facebook Data Center Expansion: Keeping It Local

Crook County residents make up 73 percent of employees at Facebook’s Prineville campus
Jaclyn Brandt

Facebook is growing its presence in Prineville and adding more jobs for local people. Late last month, the company announced an expansion of its data center in Crook County, from 1.2 million square feet to more than 3.2 million square feet. Facebook will invest an additional $750 million into the community and 100 new jobs, […]

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Feed Frenzy

For years, media outlets desperately chased the clicks promised by Facebook. Now the social media giant threatens to destroy them
Daniel Walters

As with any toxic relationship, the possibility of a breakup sparks feelings of terror — and maybe a little bit of a relief. That’s the spot that Facebook has put the news business in. Early this year, the social media behemoth announced it would once again alter its News Feed algorithm to show users even […]

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Today is “National UnFriend Day” — do you know who your real friends are?

In the digital age, quantity overshadows quality
Avatar photo Keely Damara

In the age of the Internet, social media is our playground—with an endless sea of “friends” available just a click away. The term “friend” has become more of a verb these days than a word referring to an actual human being. That guy that you met at your friend’s party last week? Better “friend” him […]

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Free Has Responsibilities

The Source Staff

Free speech is one of the great tenets of American culture, politics and identity. But the First Amendment is also perhaps the most misunderstood “freedom.” It is not an unlimited hall pass to say whatever you want, wherever you want, to whomever you want. Take for example a recent incident in Southern Oregon, where a […]

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