The Wandering Eye

Mere hours after Tom Daschle announced that he was withdrawing from consideration to become President Obama's secretary of Health and Human Services, the name of John Kitzhaber was being tossed around again.

Carla Axtman of BlueOregon says she has reliable information that perennial anti-tax crusader and racketeer Bill Sizemore has lost the support of his two sugar-daddies.

There's some serious talk about bringing passenger rail service back to Baker City, but will Bend ever see the return of passenger trains? That seems about as probable as finding Amelia Earhart alive.

A Republican state senator from Central Oregon and the head of the state Land Conservation and Development Commission traded shots over Gov. Ted Kulongoski's plan to protect the Metolius Basin, with the senator charging that public hearings on the plan are just for show and the LCDC chief saying he's got it wrong.

Ex-City Councilor Peter Gramlich is leaving Bend for greener - and more progressive - pastures in Portland.

Rack up another serious head-on crash for Highway 97 - not a fatal one this time, fortunately, but one that easily could have been.

The Brand Insight Blog, published by BN Branding, a Bend marketing consulting firm, offers some unconventional wisdom about why Jody Denton's once-red-hot Bend restaurants, Merenda and Deep, cooled off and went under.

If The Bulletin plays the story on its front page, it must be official: Bend is broke.

According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculations, the unemployment rate in Bend is 9.9%. But what is it really?

The totals are in for the first phase of Mt. Bachelor's new charity event replacing Free Ski day, and while they aren't as bad as critics warned they're not nearly as good as the resort predicted.