The mood at the downtown lounge Velvet was subdued. The snowboard video had been switched over to PBS and election results from the east coast were scrolling silently across the scene. City council candidate Nathan Boddie stood silently by the TV screen. It was 8:12 pm and the election results were scheduled to post any […]
Politics
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Letters 10/28-11/4
Editor’s Note: In the October 23 issue, a photograph ran in the Events Calendar along with an announcement about a presentation on the retreat of glaciers in the Three Sisters Wilderness. That photograph ran without appropriate credit. Mary Moynihan is the photographer who took the picture—and, moreover, who made the difficult trek out to the […]
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Election 2014 Endorsement Cheat Sheet
BEND CITY COUNCILOR 5: NATHAN BODDIE We are looking for councilors who we believe will better represent community values when they make decisions. BEND CITY COUNCILOR 6: LISA SEALES Overall we believe that Seales will fill the leadership and moderator gap that departing Jodie Barram leaves. CITY COUNCILOR 7: BARB CAMPBELL City council needs more […]
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Letters 10/21-10/28
IN REPLY TO “BEND RANKS SECOND IN THE NATION FOR PEOPLE OF A CERTAIN POLITICAL BENT” (10/20) I think anyone who lives here long sees the truth. We’re not centrist, we’re actually just so polarized that when a second-tier lifestyle website does some second-tier stats analysis on us, we APPEAR to be right in the […]
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Future Fears
When Halloween and elections collide, frightening predictions arise
Masks of elected officials are a Halloween staple. Why? Because politicians can be scary. But like super powered-mutants, they have the ability to either wreak havoc on, or help to save, the future. We talked to city staff and councilors to find out what keeps them awake at night, why they’re worried, and what they’ll […]
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Letters 10/14-10/21
VOTE YES ON MEASURE 92 TO LABEL GMOS Don’t be taken in by the opponents’ deceptions on Measure 92. Consumers will NOT spend more for food items. Labeling has already occurred in 64 countries with no increase in prices. A current 14-page Consumer Union report last week found that a potential cost to the consumer […]
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The 12 Percent!
Four years ago, in the 2010 general elections, Scott Ramsay was running for office for the first time. He was facing Chuck Arnold, a popular member of the Downtown community, for Position 7 on Bend City Council. The philosophical differences between the two men were pretty clear. It was at a time when Bend was […]
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Bend Ranks Second in the Nation for People of a Certain Political Bent
Like attracts like, and political views are no exception. The Pacific coast has gained a reputation for liberalism (hence the double entendre of “The Left Coast”) while the so-called Bible Belt is predictably populated with folks with more conservative views. But this political clustering is not limited to the far ends of the spectrum. According […]
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Election Guide 2014
Our Picks for Politics
Our concerns about Bend’s City Council are best typified by the lack of forward progress on issues such as Mirror Pond and the lack of hustle initialized to set in place a tax of recreational marijuana sales. With Bend’s rapid growth—an expected 50 percent population boom over the next decade—it is concerning that the current […]
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WATCH: Election 2014 Source Weekly Endorsement Interviews
Our Election 2014 Endorsement Issue comes out this week. But before we tell you how we think you should vote, make up your own mind by watching our unedited endorsement interviews with local candidates. (If you prefer to read, you can find candidate Q&As here.) Scroll on down or go directly to our YouTube channel. […]
