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Punished for being a gay teen?
May 25, 2013 4:00 am
NEW HAVEN, Conn. —Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year-old Florida student, is getting lots of sympathy after being criminally charged over her sexual relationship with her 14-year-old girlfriend. Hunt and the younger girl were basketball teammates.....MORE
In My View
eMoney needs to go to schools, not to prop up PERS
May 25, 2013 4:00 am
As legislators in Salem go down to the wire on whether further reform of the Public Employees Retirement System will happen this session, it might be tempting to see PERS as an abstract, a distant rumble on the other side of the Cascades. But....MORE
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Culver residents need to restore trust, engagement
May 25, 2013 4:00 am
Eighteen months ago, voters rejected a Culver school bond by 381 votes. This week, the gap was only 60 votes. That’s more than a glimmer of hope. This year’s bond request was smaller — $9.75 million vs. the earlier $14.6 million....MORE
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Scary problem, scary solution
May 25, 2013 4:00 am
House Bill 3436 is a well-intentioned, carefully crafted and alarming product of the Oregon Legislature. It creates a task force, the Oregon Retirement Savings Investment Board, to go about the task of creating the Oregon Secure Retirement Plan. The....MORE
Preserving prostitutes’ right to beckon, chitchat on streets
May 24, 2013 4:00 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —Somebody needs to address the etiquette issues involved in holding sidewalk discussions with streetwalkers. It’s never a topic covered in articles about manners or decorum, and so one never quite knows what to do....MORE
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Settling into a neighborhood that evokes an earlier Bend
May 24, 2013 4:00 am
The Stevens family downsized earlier this year, moving into a house of just about 1,600 square feet. But though the move meant some difficult decisions about 30 years of accumulated stuff, there have been some real positives, as well. Sorting through ....MORE
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Mediation bill an improvement
May 24, 2013 4:00 am
Oregon’s foreclosure crisis took a step toward resolution Wednesday when the state House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve SB 558, the bill requiring the opportunity for mediation in judicial as well as nonjudicial....MORE
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Health law complexities undercut critical progress
May 24, 2013 4:00 am
For all the controversy about President Barack Obama’s grand revision of health care, there was wide agreement on at least two things: Too many people lack access to health care, and too many household budgets are ruined by its cost. The goal....MORE
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Drivers don’t know
May 23, 2013 4:00 am
From my observations while driving in downtown Bend, nearly 100 percent of the drivers don’t know that they are allowed to make a left-hand turn onto a one-way street after stopping for a red traffic light and looking to see that traffic is....MORE
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Preserve Mirror Pond
May 23, 2013 4:00 am
Mirror Pond should be preserved as an icon of Bend. This can be achieved by the city of Bend purchasing the dam owned by a private utility, with the revenue thus derived from power generation committed to dredging of Mirror Pond as needed. Bend....MORE
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How is it right?
May 23, 2013 4:00 am
How is it right to provide illegal aliens, regardless of how they got here, in-state tuition? How is it right to provide illegal aliens a driver’s card? How is it right to provide any service of any kind to anyone in this country illegally?....MORE
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Citizens Academy will open your eyes
May 23, 2013 4:00 am
Wednesday night ended Class 30 of the Bend Police Department Citizens Academy, and I was among those privileged to participate. In prior years, I benefited from the offerings of the DCSO Citizens Academy. Differences exist in how these agencies are....MORE
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Kindness appreciated
May 23, 2013 4:00 am
My husband and I retired to Bend in the winter of 2005. Since that time I have been very impressed with the courteous, friendly and thoughtful residents here in our city. That opinion came to fruition May 6, while parked in the parking lot at Bend....MORE
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Until we fireproof the forest, protection lies with you
May 23, 2013 4:00 am
I predict that Bend is going to burn. I can’t say when, but I anticipate there will be substantial loss of homes from wildfire. Homes in neighborhoods like Awbrey Butte, Northwest Crossing and Deschutes River Woods, among others, are at....MORE
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Diapers foul trash pickup plan
May 23, 2013 4:00 am
Not quite two years ago, the city of Portland decided to take the next step in its push to persuade residents not only to recycle, but to compost, as well. By one measure the move has been a success — garbage going to landfills has dropped by....MORE
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Celebrate limits to double majority
May 23, 2013 4:00 am
Central Oregon voters approved all but one of the money measures on their ballots this week, choosing to support schools, public safety and recreation. Had this election taken place during the 10-year reign of the original double-majority rule,....MORE
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Horoscopes are misleading nonsense
May 22, 2013 1:06 am
Did you hear about the pathetic, $800-per-hour psychic Sylvia Browne who was hired by and assured Amanda Berry’s mom that her daughter was dead but was waiting for her in heaven? After that, the mom stopped looking and died “of a....MORE
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Using ‘crash’ implies fault
May 22, 2013 1:06 am
It is quite common to hear people referring to an accident snarling traffic during rush hour. Really? An accident is a total unforeseen and random event that was not any one person’s fault. The majority of these traffic-snarling events are....MORE
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Tired of rudeness on the trail
May 22, 2013 1:06 am
My wife and I, with our dog, use the Deschutes River Trail segment from Archie Briggs to Awbrey Glen several times a week. My attitude is generally “live and let live" but I am tired of the chronic rudeness I encounter from other trail users.....MORE
The importance of critically examining our beliefs
May 22, 2013 1:06 am
There is no standard definition of the all-important term “wing nut," so let’s provide one. A wing nut is someone who has a dogmatic commitment to an extreme political view (“wing") that is false and at least a bit crazy....MORE
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Don’t allow off-leash dogs on park trails
May 22, 2013 1:06 am
Bend parks and trails are scenes of all sorts of polite — usually — clashes: Bike v. pedestrian. Duck and geese feeders v. Bend law. And off-leash dog v. on-leash dog or people or bikes. Some candidates for the Bend Park & Recreation....MORE
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Don’t reduce legal limit for drunken driving
May 22, 2013 1:01 am
We’re all for putting an end to drunken driving. In Oregon in 2011, alcohol-impaired drivers were involved in nearly 30 percent of all traffic fatalities, a figure that mirrors the national average closely. At the same time, however, imposing....MORE
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Immigration needs to be done legally
May 22, 2013 1:06 am
State Rep. Dennis Richardson asked me about giving provisional driver’s licenses to illegal aliens as Oregon SB833 made its way through the process. When I was collecting signatures for local measure 5-191 enforcing E-Verify as standard hiring....MORE
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Munkres for Redmond schools
May 21, 2013 4:00 am
Ron Munkres is my choice for the Redmond School Board. Munkres went to Redmond schools and then had a very distinguished career as an educator and administrator. As principal of the only vo-tech school in Oregon, Sabin Skill Center, Munkres spent....MORE
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Add schools without raising tax rate
May 21, 2013 4:00 am
Here is some good news. Thanks to the retirement of existing bonds and refinancing of old bonds, we have an opportunity to build new schools and deliver much-needed projects without raising our current tax rate. Our community continued to grow — ....MORE
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Vote yes for schools
May 21, 2013 4:00 am
We are growing and our buildings are feeling those achy pains that come with fast growth. Hundreds and hundreds of students have been enrolling in our schools each year — and our buildings are bursting at the seams. Schools are filling up very ....MORE
Values emerge in the burying of Tamerlan Tsarnaev
May 21, 2013 4:00 am
If you don’t believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named....MORE
The Bulletin’s endorsements
May 21, 2013 4:00 am
The deadline is 8 p. m. tonight to have your vote count on money measures and candidates for local boards. It’s too late to mail your ballot, but drop sites are listed on the websites of your county clerk and the Oregon secretary of state.....MORE
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City must take care of Pilot Butte Cemetery
May 21, 2013 4:00 am
Bend’s Pilot Butte Cemetery is a link to the community’s past unlike any other. In it are buried some of the city’s earliest residents and some far more recent, as well. The city of Bend owns the cemetery, the city’s oldest,....MORE
Maureen Dowd
Cascading confessions of 2 famous women
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
Two of the hot topics trending on Twitter Tuesday were Angelina Jolie and the IRS. Beauty and the Beast. Jolie stunned the world with a New York Times op-ed article explaining why she had decided to have a preventive double mastectomy once she learned ....MORE
The IRS scandal and Watergate
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to . . . cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner."— Article II, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment against Richard M. Nixon, adopted by the House Judiciary Committee, July 29, 1974The....MORE
Thomas Friedman
A visit to Yemen’s zoo
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
SANAA, Yemen —Arriving in Yemen last week, I had an experience I’d never had before. I drove from the airport into Sanaa, the capital, on the main thoroughfare, through a raging torrent of water. I was staying in the old city, a United....MORE
Victor Davis Hanson
It’s 1973’s White House all over again
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
In Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, he ran to the left of Hillary Clinton as a moral reformer. Obama promised to transcend the old politics and bring a new era of hope-and-change transparency to Washington. Five years later, those....MORE
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Who will do the work?
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
News sources reported three weeks ago that Kevin and Tami Sawyer had been sentenced to federal prison for crimes related to their bogus real estate business. But my question is where were these news sources when the tough journalistic work was being....MORE
Commentary
In Syria’s war, the lines that matter
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
It is rarely a good idea to draw maps in a hurry. But this is what colonial cartographers did in the Arab world after the First World War, and the borders they painted were superimposed on old tribal and religious attachments that long predated the new states. Today, the folly of those lines is made clear, as Syria’s war threatens not just that country’s territorial unity but that of....MORE
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Fox in henhouse on PERS
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
Based on who is covered by PERS, maybe the name should be changed to PE&ERS. Why? Well, as state legislators and judges can participate in the system, the name should reflect that elected persons are included, hence Public Employee and Elected....MORE
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Wasteful government spending
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
This is another case of wasteful government spending, with the benefits shared by a few and the costs paid by all. Those who want to fly to Los Angeles pitched in for American Airlines’ $400,000 requirement for pre-paid tickets. These —....MORE
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Help clean up our public lands
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
While out walking my dog the other day, I came across a sight that is all too common in Central Oregon, bags of trash and piles of tires dumped on our public lands. Seeing litter, graffiti and deer carcasses dumped as a result of poaching on our....MORE
The U.S. must fight harder against tuberculosis
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
In 2011, tuberculosis killed 1.4 million people worldwide, almost as many as died from HIV/AIDS. And death isn’t the only damage TB does. In many countries, women with the disease are stigmatized and abandoned. Families of poor victims find....MORE
The Bulletin’s endorsements
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
Ballots must reach county election offices by 8 p. m. Tuesday. Drop box locations are available on the county elections and Oregon secretary of state’s websites. Be sure to sign your ballot. Below are The Bulletin’s recommendations. Our....MORE
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Bend should focus on needs not wants
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
Suppose you are making choices about what Bend’s police need. Would a mobile command vehicle be on the list?One part of Bend’s proposed budget for the next biennium that deserves some council scrutiny is the plan to buy a mobile command....MORE
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Protect homeowners
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
Can you imagine what paying your taxes would be like without the mortgage interest deduction? It could amount to a significant income tax that would negatively impact Oregon’s housing market and the dream of homeownership. Well, that’s ....MORE
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Vote for McAfee
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
It is not often one has the opportunity to elect a candidate that will make a difference. The voters of Bend will do well if they elect Adele McAfee to the Central Oregon Community College board. It was my pleasure to serve on the La Pine City....MORE
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McAfee for COCC board
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
I am thrilled to see that Adele McAfee is running for the Central Oregon Community College board! What a great advocate she would be for the “real world needs" of both students and the local community. Her common-sense approach to fiscal....MORE
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Munkres for Redmond schools
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
Much is being made in the Redmond School Board race about the distinction between vocational education and “academics." The argument is that not enough attention is being paid to vocational education and too much emphasis is being placed on....MORE
In my view
eKlemp is right candidate for Redmond School Board
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
I am writing this letter for two reasons. Very soon we will be having a special election. I am 76 years old and I have never, since I was 21 years old and registered to vote, missed an election. It bothers me a lot when, after an election, I read....MORE
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Email gives context to senators’ letters
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
When Oregon’s U. S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and other Democratic senators wrote to the IRS last year criticizing the agency’s regulations, they didn’t mention conservative groups. But Merkley’s email to supporters makes it clear....MORE
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Legislature fails on long-term PERS reform
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
Better than any governor before him, Gov. John Kitzhaber framed the problem with the state employee retirement system called PERS. Cut PERS or cut schools.“The average cost per pupil in Oregon will go up about $1,000 per pupil this next....MORE
Open data should be the rule for government information
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Long before steam engines and turbines carried us swiftly over the oceans, a disabled sailor who could no longer serve on a ship found something to do ashore: aggregate the data from shipping logs. When Matthew Fontaine Maury started analyzing those....MORE
Janet Stevens
eLove affair with local food is good for small farms
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Farmers markets, Central Oregon-style, tend to be dominated by growers from the Willamette Valley. Perhaps that’s not surprising — with a much longer growing season than generally is the case in these parts, row-crop agriculture is a....MORE
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Internet freedom bill is a gesture worth making
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
While an official U. S. policy favoring global Internet freedom may not improve things in China or even here at home, adopting one is a gesture worth making. And so the U. S. House of Representatives did this week, approving H. R. 1580 unanimously and....MORE
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Computers testing writing goes too far
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Can a machine grade a writing test? Surprisingly, it’s a subject of some dispute, with dueling studies, impassioned statements and an online petition. A critical driver is money. As tests are being developed for the new Common Core K-12....MORE
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Ford for COCC board
May 16, 2013 4:00 am
As a current board member of Central Oregon Community College, I heartily endorse David Ford for a second term. From drawing upon his private sector experience, thorough preparation for meetings, active involvement on numerous committees and the....MORE
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Don’t need wolf comeback
May 16, 2013 4:00 am
The Hurd brothers — Scott, Ross and Doug — ranch near Wenatchee, Wash. Last year, they noticed wolf tracks on their property six miles southwest of downtown Wenatchee. Then last fall a neighbor used a remote camera to take a photograph ....MORE
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Fishkin for park board
May 16, 2013 4:00 am
In the upcoming election for Bend Park & Recreation District board position 1, please consider voting for Dan Fishkin. Fishkin has lent his sound management skills to the district’s budget committee for several years and is currently....MORE
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Fell for park board
May 16, 2013 4:00 am
If you believe the park board is elected to spend more than $12 million a year of our taxes (not to mention the $29 million bond), stop reading. If you believe the board should do everything possible to determine what the people want and be their....MORE
In my view
eBend park board candidate misrepresented the facts
May 16, 2013 4:00 am
It is unusual for the Bend Park & Recreation District board of directors to submit a response to an In My View to correct factual errors and misrepresentations from a member of the public. However, in this case, the board believes it is....MORE
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Government should update email policies
May 16, 2013 4:00 am
The government can’t routinely open a letter sent in the mail without a warrant. The same standard should apply to email, but it’s not clear if the IRS and the FBI bother much with warrants for email. The American Civil Liberties Union....MORE
Money measures and candidates await your vote
May 16, 2013 4:00 am
It’s time to cast your ballot. Voters in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties will decide numerous money measures and scores of board seats in Tuesday’s election. To be sure your vote counts:• Look at both sides of your ballot.....MORE
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Congress faces complex issues
May 15, 2013 4:00 am
Of World War II vintage, hopefully still learning, I am mystified by even the index of the April 20-27 Economist! Then I realize that our Congress is entrusted with making decisions on all this! World health awareness that today’s germs have....MORE
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Kirk, Elliott for Crooked River Ranch fire board
May 15, 2013 4:00 am
There is an upcoming election for members of the fire board at Crooked River Ranch. After having been involved in electing a new water board there, people should be more cautious in electing those who have responsibility for keeping us safe and....MORE
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We work hard on political activism
May 15, 2013 4:00 am
In her May 5 column, Lily Raff McCaulou’s lead sentence states that Central Oregon is known for physical activism, not political activism. Hearing this, from one of The Bulletin’s best reporters, is hard news. There are a great many of....MORE
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Health exchanges provide critical transparency
May 15, 2013 4:00 am
When consumers can see price comparisons, the marketplace responds. That’s been rare in health care, but last week brought a speedy demonstration. The state posted proposed medical insurance rates from different providers, and some companies....MORE
In my View
eVehicle trail system is bad for hunters and habitat
May 15, 2013 4:00 am
The proposed Ochoco Summit Trail System is opposed not only by the Oregon Hunters Association but many other organizations that are concerned with wildlife and habitat. The Ochoco National Forest Management plan states, “Off-road vehicle use....MORE
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Don’t do an Oregon statue switcheroo
May 15, 2013 4:00 am
Those who hope to honor the late Mark Hatfield by putting a statue of him in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D. C., have the right idea — memorialize a great person in Oregon history — but the wrong location. The statue of the....MORE
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Road too narrow for cars and bikes
May 14, 2013 4:00 am
I read where the paved bicycle pathway from Sunriver to Lava Butte lookout entrance will be opened this summer. I wondered if bicycles would be allowed to use the road up to the top, so I stopped in at the entrance hut to find out. According to the....MORE
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Maybe Wyden is seeing the light
May 14, 2013 4:00 am
I thought I was in a time warp when I first read your front page article in the May 2 Bulletin. A U. S. senator saying, “The reason we are on the floor talking about it, and talking about ... businesses being forced to do this against their....MORE
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Corbin supports vocational education
May 14, 2013 4:00 am
Oregon’s education “policymakers" and the general public have dramatically different priorities for improving public education, according to public opinion research conducted by a group based at Portland State University called....MORE
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Vote yes for schools, 911
May 14, 2013 4:00 am
Education and public safety — what’s more important for a community?As a fiscal conservative who seriously questions public expenditures, and usually opposes requests for more money, I almost surprise myself by endorsing two bond....MORE
In my view
eObama, America need to wake up to terrorist threat
May 14, 2013 4:00 am
In the rush to “nitpick" the Boston terror attack — not trivializing this horrific event in any way — the Obama administration and the country as a whole are missing the giant picture of the dangerous watershed of worldwide Islamic ....MORE
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Tighten rules on DAs, collection companies
May 14, 2013 4:00 am
The Oregon Senate voted in late April to approve a measure designed to tighten the rules covering companies that collect on bad checks for local district attorneys. Senate Bill 525 would require that a bill collector working for the local district....MORE
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Noise ordinance needs to protect residences, too
May 14, 2013 4:00 am
Bend’s noise ordinance is getting a needed upgrade, but the revision flops when it comes to protecting homes from arbitrary enforcement. The Bend City Council is scheduled to vote on changes to the ordinance on Wednesday. The council made a....MORE
Bulletin endorsements
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
Editor’s Note: Please send election-related letters and guest columns no later than Wednesday. We will give priority to election submissions, publishing as many as possible before election day, May 21. Below are The Bulletin’s....MORE
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Farewell Central Oregon
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
Growing up near Washington, D. C., my main impression of Oregon came from “The Oregon Trail," a then-new-fangled computer game that was the highlight of elementary school in the late 1980s. In the game, you pack a virtual wagon with supplies and ....MORE
Thomas Friedman
A humanist message in a bottle for Yemen
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
TAIZ, Yemen —I am in the Yemen International Hospital in Taiz, the Yemeni city in the central highlands that is suffering from such an acute water shortage that people get to run their taps for only 36 hours every 30 days or so. They have to....MORE
Maureen Dowd
In a gaudy theme park, Jay-Z meets J-Gatz
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
When I started out in journalism, I spent five long years as a reporter in Montgomery County, Md., a cosseted suburb of Washington. I felt suffocated, as though I’d never escape to the blazing, gritty larger world I dreamed of covering. Driving to work every day, I passed a small cemetery connected to St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Rockville. I would always look up and give a silent....MORE
Jailhouse politics
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
Even by the standards of America’s troubled jails and prisons, the scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center is appalling. A gang, known as the Black Guerrilla Family, took over the center, trafficking in drugs, cellphones and sexual....MORE
Victor Davis Hanson
Hoping for power change in Syria
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
Remember when President Obama used to warn Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to stop his mass killing and step down?Muammar Gadhafi’s dictatorship had then just collapsed under Western bombing. The murders of Americans in Benghazi and the....MORE
The driver
• An exclusive look inside the mysterious death and life of the world’s most dangerous terrorist not named Osama bin Laden
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON —On the night of Feb. 12, 2008, an overweight middle-aged man with a light beard walked from his apartment in the Kfar Sousa district of Damascus to his silver Mitsubishi Pajero parked in front of his building. It was already 10:15, and he was late for a meeting with Iran’s new ambassador to Syria, who had arrived in the country the night before. There was good reason for....MORE
David Brooks
Started at the bottom
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
Not long ago, I devoted a column to the mostly upper-middle-class students at elite universities — the empirical kids. I thought it would be interesting to devote a column to students who at least started at the other end of the social scale.....MORE
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McAfee for COCC board
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
As a refreshing new face with a valuable perspective, Adele McAfee is the best choice as a proven leader who has served our community well. She will work to improve and sustain the future success of Central Oregon Community College students by....MORE
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Vote yes for schools
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
My youngest son will graduate from Bend High School in June. As I reflect back upon the excellent education he and my two older sons received in Bend-La Pine Schools, I want to urge taxpayers to vote yes for schools. As a taxpayer, parent and....MORE
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Klemp for Redmond board
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
Redmond students, parents and the community deserve the very best people on the Redmond School Board. Lisa Klemp brings a sharp and creative mind, a caring heart and a clear understanding regarding the challenges facing the district in terms of....MORE
In My View
eBend park district needs to get back on the right path
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
With more than a little reluctance, I have found it necessary to run for the position of Bend Park & Recreation District (BPRD) director in the May 21 election. Everyone should be a candidate for public office at least once. Win or lose, you do....MORE
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Don’t cut back federal funding for fuels reduction
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
The best time to fight a wildfire is before it starts. Reducing fuels reduces fires. There’s less threat to the public, firefighters, trees, wildlife and property. So why is the U. S. government planning to spend less on reducing fuels for....MORE
The best Mother's Day gifts
May 11, 2013 4:00 am
In the news business, every season, holiday and major event brings with it a flood of press releases from well-meaning companies....MORE
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Lower Whychus needs protection
May 11, 2013 4:00 am
I was pleased to see Whychus Creek featured in the recent article “Preserving Whychus: A hike reminds why" on April 29. I am on the board of directors for a new group, the Friends and Neighbors (aka FANS) of the Deschutes Canyon Area that is....MORE
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Form Alfalfa fire district
May 11, 2013 4:00 am
Your article “Firefighting options for the east county are debated," published April 14, failed to mention a seventh option and one that the Deschutes County commissioners would most likely prefer. This option is that citizens in the....MORE
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Irrational idiocies in bomb suspects
May 11, 2013 4:00 am
The mother of the Boston bombers, in “defense" of her sons offered a string of irrational idiocies that she capped off with “God is Great." For her, not so much. Look into the eyes of our recent mass violence perpetrators and you can see ....MORE
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Need more than IRS apology
May 11, 2013 4:00 am
News that the Internal Revenue Service made life difficult for some conservative political groups during the last election campaign got your juices flowing, if you are a suspicious sort. Employees of the agency’s Cincinnati, Ohio, office....MORE
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Don’t let PERS affect bond and levy support
May 11, 2013 4:00 am
If you’re considering a no vote on any of several money measures on Central Oregon ballots this month because you’re upset over problems with the state’s Public Employees Retirement System, don’t. You’re aiming at the....MORE
In my view
eCandidate Gottlieb uses ‘revolutionary’ grassroots campaign
May 11, 2013 4:00 am
My “opinion" is the people of Oregon love Bend’s parks and recreation system. Bend Park & Recreation District is a vital community asset and should retain its integrity and independence. Beginning March 4, I spoke with 1,364 citizens, ....MORE
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Carr for Crook County school board
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
I’d like to throw my support behind my wife, Gwen Carr, as the at-large candidate for the Crook County School Board. Gwen and I are both native Oregonians and our two children attend Crooked River Elementary School in Prineville. She is a....MORE
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Keep money here
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
How is it with a sputtering U. S. economy, record number of food-stamp recipients, unemployment at record highs and taxes soaring, that we, the taxpayers, can allow $123 million to be given to Syrian rebels? For centuries, foreign countries have been ....MORE
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Release wolves in L.A.
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
I find it interesting that someone in California is interested in Oregon game laws. In her April 30 letter, Sonia Valdivia said she was “absolutely overjoyed when wolf OR-7 crossed the Oregon border into California a year ago." I am sure that ....MORE
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Klemp for Redmond schools
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
Please vote for Lisa Klemp for the Redmond School Board. Klemp is a local attorney in Redmond and is running for Position 4. Klemp is running to advocate for the students and taxpayers. She is also a supporter of school safety for students and staff,....MORE
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Ford for COCC board
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
I’ve had the honor of serving on the COCC Board of Directors with David Ford since he was elected to his first term in 2009. During his tenure, the college has gone through explosive growth in both enrollment and facilities, on the Bend....MORE
Janet Stevens
eCentral Oregon's libraries let your imagination soar
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
I will never forget my first trip to the library. It was in the fall of 1953, shortly after we moved to Bend. Jean Webster, my first-grade teacher, walked the class from Thompson School past Trinity Episcopal Church and across the street to the....MORE
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Legislation could improve Oregon’s vaccination rate
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
The number of parents in Oregon who choose not to vaccinate their children continues to grow, and as it does so, it continues to raise the health risks for those who, for medical reasons, cannot be vaccinated. State senators will try to stem that....MORE
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Better to get involved than to complain later
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
It’s always easier to complain than to get involved and help find solutions. The latest local example is the lack of applicants for the city of Bend’s water treatment advisory board. The city has taken plenty of heat for the supposed....MORE
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- Grand Opening Party | Sat 05/25 10a.m.-6p.m. | Vista Bonita Glass Art Studio and Gallery, Sisters
- Central Oregon Saturday Market | Sat 05/25 10a.m.-4p.m. | parking lot across from Bend Public Library, Bend
- Grand Reopening | Sat 05/25 10a.m. | Petersen Rock Garden & Museum, Redmond
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