Guest Commentary

Holy smokes! SOO many great memories. There are a billion reason I love the Horn. I have made so many extraordinary friends through the Horned Hand—friends who have become best friends; some local and some from all over the country. I've seen the best shows there, some of my favorites: The Tornado Riders, The Hooten […]

Editor's note: This editorial was sent in response to a hot-button topic: logging. And, specifically, to a letter last week, "Notice: Popular Recreation Forest Near Bend Slated for Logging" (6/6). Two and a half years ago, the Forest Service began planning the 25,700-acre project on the western side of Bend. A dedicated group of community […]

The issue of prison reform and funding has become a front-page issue recently in the state of Oregon. Taxpayers and lawmakers are both very concerned about public safety and the money used to pay for this safety. The Thursday (Jan. 31) edition of the Bend Bulletin newspaper had a frontpage article regarding a proposed $10.9 […]

The City of Bend continues to refuse to consider alternatives to a $30 million, 10-mile-long, 30-inch pipeline for its Surface Water Improvement Project (SWIP) despite clear opposition to the plan expressed by voters last November. The city should reconsider based on the following. The basis for an original recommendation of a large pipe was the […]

In the game of compromise there are always winners and losers on both sides of the table. As the former project manager who worked with the Mirror Pond Steering Committee, I know the quest for a solution, if one could even call it that, is socially complex and politically powered. I applaud the city of […]

The high desert of Central Oregon is a special region, blessed with abundant summer sunshine and a moderate climate. The thread that binds the fabric of this region together is an anomaly: a clean, cold-water river in an otherwise arid landscape. Born from springs high in the Cascades, the Deschutes flows through Bend as a […]