Editorials

Editorial: Explanations required in loss of taxpayer funds

In 2022, Redmond-area voters agreed to shell out $49 million to build a recreation center, complete with an…

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Guest column: Expensive highway crossing burdens taxpayers

 — Bob Brell lives in Bend.

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Guest column: Measuring merit and diversity

The issues and consternation we face with diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility aren’t new. Humanity is predisposed to…

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Guest column: Public lands can offer refuge, recovery for area’s homeless

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Guest column: Fight for empathy and love

Editor’s Note: Rev. Koski gave this speech Monday in Bend at the ceremonial swearing in of new U.S.…

Editorials

Editorial: The yawning gap in children’s health care in Central Oregon

What’s agonizing about health care is, as others have said before, that it can be not so healthy…

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Editorial: How will Oregon keep health care costs down?

Oregon government wants to control health care costs because, well, Oregonians would appreciate it. The state has a…

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Editorial: Where Oregon repeatedly misses requirements on audits

Former Republican state Sen. Dennis Linthicum, whose district covered Klamath County and areas thereabouts, was by no means…

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Editorial: Oregon has a deficit of beds for behavioral health treatment

When we spoke last week to some Central Oregon legislators, state Sen. Anthony Broadman and Reps. Emerson Levy…

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Editorial: Should Bend change water rates to encourage conservation?

Russ Grayson, Bend’s chief operating officer, talked water conservation at a gathering last week about goals for the…

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