Last week, like most weeks during the summer in Bend, thousands of tourists poured into town. There were the Phish shows; two nights that pulled thousands of fans from across the Northwest to Les Schwab Amphitheater. And, there was the Cascade Cycling Classic, a five-stage road bike race that attracted a different crowd; hundreds of […]
The Glass Slipper
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The Price of Green Grass
Last Friday, Gov. Kate Brown added four more counties to the list of regions in Oregon that have reached emergency levels for drought—bringing the grand total to 19 of the state’s 36 counties that are in such dire thirst; more than half. Deschutes County has been on that list for a month, a designation that […]
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Staying True
When Knute Buehler campaigned last autumn for a seat in the Oregon House, he proudly stated his afflation with the Republican Party, but he also went out of his way to identify his political positions that differ from the political party’s traditional platform. Moreover, he promised to think and vote independently from his party and […]
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Standing Up For Free Speech
Last Wednesday, armed gunmen killed 12 people at a French satirical weekly publication Charlie Hebdo. The publication was specifically targeted after it ran cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad. This following week, Charlie Hebdo has responded bravely and admirably—and in the only way to deal with bullies, not by cowering but by redoubling its publication and […]
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New Media
The New Year brings a number of upheavals to the media landscape in Central Oregon as a number of prominent figure in Central Oregon’s print media move out of their positions. At the city’s daily newspaper, longtime publisher Gordon Black officially retired after two decades in the position. Black was at the helm of the […]
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People We Will Miss Most
Robin Williams (1951 – Aug. 11, 2014): Emerging from San Francisco’s standup circuit, Williams became an icon of the ’70s and ’80s, and widened his appeal to subsequent generations—to Generation X’s buck-authority as the rogue prep school teacher in Dead Poets Society and fast-mouthed deejay in Good Morning, Vietnam, to the sardonic sense of humor […]