The Wandering Eye

The right-wing Oregon Catalyst blog couldn't resist taking a poke at the Bend City Council for voting to designate the Portland Avenue bridge the "Peace Bridge."

An Oregon judge has handed down a ruling that will make it easier for anonymous posters to libel people on-line - and make it just about impossible for people who are libeled to do anything about it.

Are you sick, tired, fed up, disgusted, depressed and angry after eight long, long, LONG years of George W. Bush? Do you wish there was something you could do to get him out of the White House sooner?

Bend may not be Illinois, but our politics isn't exactly as pure as the driven snow on Pilot Butte. KOHD-TV reported today that somebody apparently tried to bribe City Councilor Peter Gramlich to do him or her a favor in drawing the city's Urban Growth Boundary.

Bend's Pregnant Man is in the world news again - he's expecting another child in June and was the subject of a TV documentary in Britain - which inspired blogger Tim Teeman of The Times of London to comment on the alleged weirdness of Bend's name.

Oregon's most famous anti-tax crusader/racketeer Bill Sizemore has officially been nominated for one of this year's not-particularly-coveted Golden Duke Awards.

This just in: Mt. Bachelor will open its 2008-2009 skiing and snowboarding season this Sunday … assuming the snow gods cooperate.

The American College of Emergency Physicians has issued its annual report card for all the states, and Oregon's grades are not the kind you'd be proud to show your parents.

Oregon is moving to the left. The Democrats hold both houses of the Legislature, a Republican presidential candidate hasn't carried the state since 1984, the Republican Party hasn't elected a governor since that same year, and according to the Oregon Secretary of State's office, Democrats turned out at a higher percentage than Republicans this year for the first time in history.

Tired of all that depressing local business news? You won't have to read it in The Bulletin anymore, at least on Mondays.