It’s no secret that having an adequate supply of workforce housing is an issue in Central Oregon. When a city such as Bend lacks a sufficient amount of low- to middle-income housing, the economy can suffer. Business owners in the service and hospitality industries can attest: It’s tough to find and retain quality employees when […]
Transient Room Taxes
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Vote Gena Goodman-Campbell for Bend City Council pos. 5
Three candidates are running for Bend City Council position 5. Victor Johnson is a local music teacher running as an advocate for the arts and music community in Bend. Andrew Davis is the director of student and campus life at Central Oregon Community College. Gena Goodman-Campbell is the public lands coordinator at the Oregon Natural […]
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Too Many Tourists?
Bend grapples with the seasonal influx of visitors
When Katy Bryce sat down on the front porch of her west side Bend home last month to write a blog post, she didn’t know that she was about to voice the frustrations of thousands of local residents. Bryce, a freelance writer, wrote about walking along the Deschutes River that morning, about how she’d found […]