Barb Campbell for Bend City Council

Barb Campbell is the best choice for Bend City Council Position 4. Please join me in voting for her.

Campbell has served the community on the Bend City Council since 2015, longer than any other current councilor. That experience gives her an institutional memory that is a valuable asset to the Council, city staff, and the citizens of Bend. While on the Council, Campbell has chaired the Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Central Oregon Area Commission on Transportation. She has also served on the Council leadership team, safety committee, and been vice chair of the Oregon Metropolitan Planning Organization Consortium.

Barb Campbell is dedicated to researching and implementing realistic and workable solutions to Bend’s housing crisis for all Bend residents. She understands that getting around town is another issue affecting all of us who live, work, recreate, and go to school in Bend.

She has been and will continue to work for safe roadways, bike trails, and sidewalks across the city. Campbell also understands the issues that small business owners face in Bend. She owned the Japan-centric store Wabi Sabi in downtown for years.

By the way, one of Campbell’s opponents has accepted $10,000 from the Central Oregon Association of Realtors. Think about that.

Learn more about Barb at the League of Women Voters website Vote411.org.

Barb Campbell is passionate about Bend’s livability. She is the best choice for Bend City Council. Vote Barb for Bend City Council Position 4.

— Kathryn Wood, Bend

Don’t let Trump happen

It was over 70 years ago that fascist dictator Adolph Hitler controlled Europe and exterminated nearly 6 million Jews, and now Donald Trump wants to set up “Detention Camps”for undocumented workers and use our military to arrest American citizens who he perceives as “enemies within our country.” Are we going to let it happen again?

He said that he believes that immigrants have “bad genes” and are racially inferior to whites and are “poisoning the blood of our country.” The man is a pathological liar who will say and do anything to spread hate and divide our country so he can be reelected president. Again, I ask, are we going to let it happen again?

— Dan Ramberg, Camp Sherman

Column didn’t offer good solutions

I am writing regarding the wire column: “A year after the October 7 attacks, there still is a way out of this endless war”

Perhaps other readers besides myself were curious to discover what Jewish and Palestinian authors might agree on. Unfortunately, my optimism began to evaporate in the very first sentence and rapidly went downhill from there.

The barbaric atrocities of October 7 were referred to as “a new earth-shattering chapter in the history of violent encounters between Palestinians and Israelis.” No mention of terrorism or terrorists? This pattern of omission continued.

Recommending that a newly created Palestinian state be administered by the Palestinian Authority, while ignoring the fact that Gaza has been a Palestinian state since 2005, increased my skepticism of their analysis. The PA led by the Fatah organization has proven to have strong ties to terrorism itself. Shockingly, opinion polls taken in the PA controlled West Bank showed overwhelming support for the actions of Hamas!

Another suggestion that the Old City of Jerusalem be administered by a trusteeship of 5 different states is laughable on its face. How Jerusalem ever came to be considered holy to Muslims is a mystery in itself, as it is never mentioned even once in the Koran but nearly 700 times in the Old Testament!

Granted, it is laudable to desire peace in the region. No one could argue with that. But the suggestions proposed by the authors seem woefully lacking in reality and therefore, doomed to failure from the start.

— Deborah Halsten, Sisters

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