The Wandering Eye

The Democratic Party of Oregon has put out a brutal video slamming our own Congressman Greg Walden for letting a million dollars in Republican campaign funds disappear on his watch.

It sounds like something that might have been published by the late, lamented Weekly World News, but apparently it's for real: A Bend man is pregnant.

When Fannie and Freddie make a move, the real estate industry takes notice. But when they tightened the rules for mortgages in Deschutes County, our local daily didn't bat an eyelash.

The story of a Bulletin reporter who was fired after complaining about how the paper was spinning its real estate coverage went statewide this afternoon when Oregon Public Broadcasting picked it up.

The two leading candidates for the Oregon Democratic Senate nomination, Jeff Merkley and Steve Novick, are trying to outdo each other in demonstrating their opposition to the Iraq war.

At the bottom of the front page of The Bulletin's Local section this morning there's a news story headlined "Study: 350 Oregonians die each year due to no insurance."

The Bend blogosphere is abuzz with the story of a Bulletin reporter who lost his job after complaining the paper was sugar-coating its coverage of the local real estate market.

Oregon Republican Sen. Gordon Smith is one of Capitol Hill's most enthusiastic and skillful golfers - so much so that he made Golf Digest's 2005 list of Washington's Top 200 Golfers.

Awbrey Butte residents might be in for a replay of the Great Clothesline War of 2007 if they vote to create a new homeowners' association.

This just in from our sources in Klamath Falls: Perennial anti-tax crusader Bill Sizemore has come out in favor of a tax increase to offset the loss of federal timber payments.