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My View: Chris Piper, Bend City Council pos. 3 candidate ▶ [with video]

Local political candidates share their views on the issues
The Source Staff

Chris Piper, candidate for Bend City Council position 3, joins Editor Nicole Vulcan of the Source Weekly for “My View,” a video series inviting local candidates to share their views on a host of topics ahead of the 2020 election, while sitting in front of a view they enjoy. Piper chose to meet at Bend’s […]

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My View: Scott Schaier, candidate for Deschutes County Sheriff ▶ [with video]

Local political candidates share their views on the issues
The Source Staff

Scott Schaier, candidate for Deschutes County Sheriff, joins Editor Nicole Vulcan of the Source Weekly for “My View,” a video series inviting local candidates to share their views on a host of topics ahead of the 2020 election, while sitting in front of a view they enjoy. Schaier chose Pine Nursery Park in Bend. Stay […]

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My View: Megan Perkins, Bend City Council pos. 3 candidate ▶ [with video]

Central Oregon political candidates share their views on the issues
The Source Staff

Megan Perkins, candidate for Bend City Council position 3, joins the Editor Nicole Vulcan of the Source Weekly for “My View,” a video series inviting local candidates to share their views on a host of topics ahead of the 2020 election, while sitting in front of a view they enjoy. Perkins chose to meet at […]

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Listen: One Superintendent’s Fight to Get Kids Back in the Classroom 🎧

Stefanie Garber is the superintendent of Culver School District: Twice she’s asked the state for an exception to its restrictions on in-person classes, citing high poverty rates in her district
Laurel Brauns

For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast we talk with Stefanie Garber, the superintendent and elementary school principal for the Culver School District. Garber recently wrote a letter to Gov. Kate Brown arguing that local communities and school boards should decide when to open schools in their own districts. She asked that the state eliminate […]

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My View: Melanie Kebler, Bend City Council pos. 1 candidate ▶ [with video]

Vote 2020: Local candidates share their views on the issues
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Melanie Kebler, candidate for Bend City Council position 1, joins Editor Nicole Vulcan of the Source Weekly for “My View,” a video series inviting local candidates to share their views on a host of topics ahead of the 2020 election, while sitting in front of a view they enjoy. Kebler chose Hollinshead Park in northeast […]

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My View: Justin Livingston, Bend City Council Pos. 1 Candidate ▶ [with video]

Vote 2020: The Source invites local political candidates to share their views, while sitting in front of a view they enjoy
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Justin Livingston, candidate for Bend City Council position 1, joins Source Weekly Editor Nicole Vulcan for “My View,” a video series inviting local candidates to share their views on a host of topics ahead of the 2020 election, while sitting in front of a view they enjoy. Livingston chose a view of downtown Bend’s Mirror […]

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Listen: Inside Look at Public Transit with Tammy Baney 🎧

The executive director of the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council, Tammy Baney, explains the barriers to more public transit in Central Oregon
Laurel Brauns

For this week’s Bend Don’t Break podcast we speak with Tammy Baney, the executive director of the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council. COIC is a group of representatives from each city and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs who work together on economic development, housing and job training. Most notably, COIC oversees Cascades East Transit, the […]

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White Bus Driver Puts Black Passenger in a Chokehold ▶ [with video]

The passenger’s offense? Not wearing shoes, DA says
Laurel Brauns

On Thursday, Aug. 20, a bus driver in Bend put a Black passenger in a chokehold until he lost consciousness. The cause? Because the passenger was not wearing shoes. Twenty-five-year-old Bend resident Dorian Zane Allstot had gotten kicked off the bus at Hawthorne Station once before because he had no shoes. He came back a […]

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The Acolytes of Mr. Anderson

Teachers, professors and even the host of Oregon Field Guide weigh in on Jim Anderson’s influence on their lives
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Readers of Jim Anderson’s Natural World column over the years will remember some familiar themes: Talking about rolling into Bend on his Harley-Davidson, advocating against outdoor cats and feeding deer in town, and introducing Central Oregonians to creatures as bizarre as the Jerusalem Cricket or as mundane as the common field mouse. But among those […]

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Reflections on Naturalist Jim Anderson

Avatar photo Aaron Switzer

As we publish Jim Anderson’s farewell column this week, Publisher Aaron Switzer offers this look back at the long relationship between our beloved Natural World contributor and the paper. I find it hard to believe that there will be a Source Weekly without a Jim Anderson column. Jim began writing for the paper after our first […]

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