The Wandering Eye

Although the real estate boom is now only a nostalgic memory, Bend remains one of the most overvalued housing markets in the country.

It's looking increasingly unlikely that John Kitzhaber will get a job in Barack Obama's Cabinet, but now speculation is growing that he might take another shot at the governorship.

 
One doesn't normally associate the natural foods industry with the kind of brutal business tactics one expects in, say, the software industry or the financial sector. But there's a real rough-and-tumble going on now between Whole Foods and its tiny competitor, New Seasons Markets.

File under "This Had to Happen Someday": Right-wing ballot measure crusader Bill Sizemore is in jail.

 
How many more people are going to have to die before ODOT installs a Jersey wall on Highway 97 between Bend and Redmond?
 

Black Friday was a pretty good day for local retailers, at least if you believe the story on the front page of this morning's Bulletin.

 
The Eye wandered East to our New Jersey birthplace to spend Thanksgiving with relatives and came back with a few random observations:

 
It was no secret that Joe Lieberman supported John McCain. But it came as a surprise Wednesday when campaign finance reports revealed that he also gave money to Gordon Smith.
 

The Bend Urban Area Planning Commission is wrapping up a little early Christmas present for the local builder/developer lobby.

The word "travel" comes from the same root as the word "travail," meaning "hard and painful labor." This is not a coincidence.