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Taking The Economy’s Temperature

Housing sales are warming up. Is that good?
Avatar photo Phil Busse

Like predicting the weather in Central Oregon during the finicky spring months, economic forecasts are tricky; sunny afternoons do not necessarily promise warm and dry evenings. Likewise, in the mid-2000s, thousands in Central Oregon were basking in a booming housing market. By 2006, construction and real estate employment was effortlessly adding jobs, and quickly had […]

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Prepping for Pot

As legalization approaches, Bendites consider the implications
Avatar photo Erin Rook

Were the legalization of weed a pregnancy, with its conception marked during the month before the election and its due date July 1, the day that pot is officially legal in Oregon, we’d be entering the third trimester. The nursery walls would be painted, the crib built, the cabinet filled with diapers and onesies. But […]

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On the Bubble

New trends in brewing are reshaping the industry
The Source Drinking Team

Billy Beer was never very good, and it didn’t last on the market very long, but it may deserve a large share of credit for the contemporary boom of craft beer. Produced briefly in the late 1970s by Billy Carter, the oafish younger brother of then-President Jimmy Carter, the beer leveraged whatever national attention is […]

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Bike Town USA

Does Bend deserve the accolades?
Avatar photo Erin Rook

Bend has gained a reputation as a “bike town.” It even has called itself Bike Town USA. But is the title deserved? Well, it depends who you ask. Mountain Bike Action magazine calls Bend the top mountain biking town in the nation, saying the city “seems like it was founded just for mountain bikers.” It […]

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Yee-haw!

Made in Central Oregon
The Source Staff

Over the past five decades, the demographics in America have dramatically shifted from rural to urban. In 1950, some half of Americans lived in rural areas, with lifestyles closer to the sensibility and demands of land than their urban counterparts. But by 2000, that balance had shifted to only one out of five Americans still […]

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Growing Like a Downhill Snowball

Sustainability at ski resorts is ever more common, but is it too late?
Avatar photo Phil Busse

This is not the winter that the ski industry, nor skiers, in Oregon wants—and, more broadly, many are worried that this year is a sign of winters to come. Mt. Ashland, which was closed all last season, has eeked open for a few days, and snow coverage at Hoodoo has been spotty. Nordic ski areas—notably […]

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Valentine’s Gift Guide

Gifts for everyone in your life, including yourself!
The Source Staff

Your Self Though often underrated, self-love is the greatest love of all. And what’s more, as Whitney Houston explains in her classic and aptly titled ballad “The Greatest Love,” it’s easy to achieve. Plus, since it’s all about Me, Myself, and I, it’s good for those bitter single folks who can’t get down with the […]

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The Drinking Issue

Cocktails, beer, and pinball
The Source Staff

Drinking is hard business. No, really, it is. We have dedicated a lot of work-hours to pull together our semi-annual Cocktail Compass, calling to check happy hour times and offers and, in this issue, expanding our coverage to include a Beer Booklet. Sort of a no-brainer, right? Um, hello. We live in, like, the beer […]

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Shooting Up

A growing number of Central Oregonians are getting hooked on heroin
Avatar photo Erin Rook

In the popular imagination, heroin lives in dark, damp Seattle alleys or dingy Edinburgh flats, the preferred vice of morose musicians or jaded junkies. But increasingly, experts say, the dangerous drug is coursing through the veins of well-adjusted, middle class youth, right here in sunny Central Oregon. “The people who are becoming addicted to heroin […]

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