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Sports Are So Gay

This weekend’s NFL draft stands to break down an important barrier—and dismantle stereotypes
Phil Busse with reporting from Erin Rook

On Saturday, the National Football League will most likely choose its first openly gay player, Michael Sam, a star defensive lineman from the University of Missouri. It will be a landmark day in both sports and in gay equality, not only because the professional leagues of hockey, basketball, baseball and football are massive commercial industries […]

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Night and Day

The District Attorney race presents two very different options
The Source Staff

The endorsement for the District Attorney is an easy choice. But it is not that one candidate is dramatically more qualified than the other. It is an easy choice, because the candidates are so differently qualified for the office. In fact, whom you chose is as much a personality and political test for yourself, as […]

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YES on Fire Levy

Measure 9-98 is a no brainer
The Source Staff

For emergency services, response time is king. In the City of Bend, and throughout Deschutes County, the fire departments have the obvious responsibilities to manage house fires, as their name would suggest, but actually spend 80 percent of their time responding to emergency medical calls—and, points out Fire chief Larry Langston, the difference between a […]

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2014 Restaurant of the Year

Zydeco Kitchen and Cocktails
Avatar photo Phil Busse

It is not even yet 10 on a Wednesday morning, but already Zydeco is busy. Steve and Cheri Helt, the husband-wife restaurant owners, have been across the street filming a spot on a local TV show about the upcoming Foodie Crawl, and now they are rushing for another media interview. The back kitchen is busy, […]

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Connecting the Dots

Piecing together Central Oregon’s rivers, trails and bike paths for flow
Avatar photo Phil Busse

The word “holistic” is thrown around a lot these days. It is a grown-up way to say that the dots are all connected; or, to use another playroom analogy, that all the puzzle parts fit together. This concept—or, more appropriately, this goal—plays out in very obvious ways in our parks and Central Oregon’s recreation pursuits, […]

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The Green Issue

Stories of Bend’s Environmental Avengers
The Source Staff

It is like the perfect storm—in a good way: The combination of large budgets and the idealism of college-age students. Across the country, college campuses are serving as some of the most impressive laboratories for sustainability practices. And, Oregon State University-Cascades campus is no different, both in regard to the hardware (the buildings) and the […]

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This American Band

Fame doesn’t mean fortune for Larry and His Flask
Avatar photo Brianna Brey

It’s a near riot in a dark, dank junkyard on the first day of the new year 2014, and the last time that Larry and His Flask played a show in Bend. The crowd—a few hundred enthusiastically shoving fans—stomp their boots and spill drinks as the band, a popular folk-punk five-piece, belts out songs; their […]

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Forward Progress

The Source’s Woman of the Year, Becky Johnson, spearheads Bend’s future
Avatar photo Brianna Brey

It’s hard to imagine a man or woman having a larger impact on Central Oregon in 2014 than the Vice President of OSU-Cascades, and the face of the University’s four-year expansion, Becky Johnson. Since her arrival at the OSU Cascades campus in December of 2008, Johnson has led the charge for growth in higher education […]

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Could Redmond be the Next “It” Town?

Revamped infrastructure and quaint charm add up to an opportunity
Avatar photoAvatar photo Phil Busse and James Williams

Last Saturday, bathed in crisp springtime sunshine, Redmond hosted its first city-sanctioned St. Patrick’s Day party. The main grid that runs along Fifth and Sixth Street, and traces out a Norman Rockwell-quaint downtown, was bustling with residents young and less young. Several men in kilts wandered on the street, presumably members of the High Desert […]

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The Beer Issue

The evolution of beer, from cave to craft
The Source Staff

Dave Berry, that eternal fountain of wit, once quipped, “Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” We agree! For our first Beer Issue, we have pulled apart […]

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