Bend cops have busted the owners of a Galveston Avenue restaurant for selling meth, and neighbors are shocked - shocked! - that such a thing could have happened on the Westside.
The Wandering Eye
How Many “Days of Sunshine”? It’s a Cloudy Issue
Does Bend, aka "the Paradise of the Cascades," really get 300 sunny days a year? Not according to the weather experts.
Hard Times Hit Stumptown
Portland made the front page of the New York Times today, but Oregon's metropolis probably would just as soon have passed up the honor.
Luring the Lifestyle Nomads
Bend has picked up another one of those "Best Of" honors: This time, it's being touted as "America's Top Mountain Biking Town" in Mountain Bike Action magazine.
At Last: Badlands Wins Wilderness Designation
It took a long time getting there, but Bend's Badlands area has finally achieved federal wilderness status.
Walden Finds His Misplaced Sense of Outrage
Talking to Greta Van Sustern on Fox News the other day, Rep. Greg Walden said he thinks Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner should resign because of the AIG bonus mess.
Lars Loses National Radio Spot
Lars Larson, Oregon's answer to Rush Limbaugh, won't be on national radio any more - at least not for a while.
Who Killed the Bonus Cap? Wyden Wants to Know
Oregon's own Sen. Ron Wyden is at the center of the hurricane of populist outrage over the millions in bonuses raked off by executives of bailed-out AIG.
Imagining the News Without Newspapers
When The Wandering Eye got his first job as a cub reporter, everybody was saying newspapers were becoming extinct. Forty years later, it looks like they were right.
Kroger Wades Into Central Oregon Water War
Oregon Attorney General John Kroger is wading into the murky mess surrounding the Crooked River Ranch Water Company.

