Editorials

Editorial: Some resources that might help with the May election

Time is running out to vote in the May primary. We aren’t going to be suggesting how you…

Editorials

Editorial: Does Deschutes County need a do over on setting policy?

When the Bend City Council agreed Wednesday to join an effort by the Central Oregon Civic Action Project…

Columnists

Books: She left the CIA in frustration, her novel is racking up awards

She felt each boom like an electric jolt as she was trying to sleep in her Alexandria, Va.,…

Editorials

Editorial: Oregon tightened vaccination restrictions; parents still opt out

Children can’t be expected to make the right choices for themselves. Their parents or guardians must do their…

Letters To Editor

Letters: Support Bend school levy; Vote for Rob Imhoff

My family and I arrived in Bend in 1973. The population was 13,000, but Bend was growing. It…

Editorials

From the editor’s desk: Vote now to have your voice counted

Election Day is Tuesday. Have you voted and returned your ballot?  Statistically, probably not. As of Friday, just…

Editorials

Editorial: A safe space for lapses in virtue

OLCC employees allegedly “for their own benefit or that of a third party, used their positions and special…

Editorials

Editorial: Oregon’s latest data on a serial killer

It was not until 2021 that legislators passed a law to require that Oregon track homeless deaths. Multnomah…

Letters To Editor

Letters to the editor: Bend school levy; Public defense crisis; Failed liberal policies

Local governments need to trim expenses rather than ask for more in new tax levies and “utility fees.”…

Editorials

Editorial: How musical chairs helps understand homelessness

The game musical chairs leans too hard into a cutthroat, Hobbesian state of nature to be a good…

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