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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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
In My View
eVote yes to help renew fire, EMS in south county
May 9, 2013 4:00 am
As a director of the La Pine Rural Fire Protection District and a resident in the district, I urge my fellow voters to vote yes on Measure 9-90 to renew funding for the replacement of equipment at the same tax rate as we are currently paying. This....MORE
Tsarnaev case didn’t call for Miranda, but not why you think
May 8, 2013 4:00 am
We’re still learning new information about the Boston Marathon suspects. Last week it was revealed that the pair initially planned a July 4 attack, a detail gleaned from a hospital interview with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, before he was read his....MORE
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Spectator becomes activist
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
Central Oregon is known for physical athleticism, not political activism. Stephen Schaffer happens to exhibit both traits. Schaffer, 62, a personal trainer and former gym owner, can be found these days outside the downtown Bend library, passing out....MORE
In my view
eCarefully planned school growth deserves support
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
Is there value in planning ahead? For the past 25 years, the Bend-La Pine school district has thought so and done so. In order to meet space needs to accommodate a fast-growing student enrollment, the district developed a planning process in the....MORE
Medicare should pay for patients, not treatments
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
The recent deceleration in U. S. health-care costs appears to be at least partially structural, and not entirely due to a still-lackluster economy. That offers some hope that the slowdown will continue. Still, more needs to be done to encourage the....MORE
Pell grants shouldn't pay for remedial college
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
Everyone, from President Barack Obama to Rep. Paul Ryan to Bill Gates, seems to have an idea for improving the Federal Pell Grant Program for higher education. Worthy though some of these efforts may be, none reveals the crux of the problem: A huge....MORE
Maureen Dowd
Bottoms up, lame duck
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON —During the 2012 campaign, the president and his top advisers liked to make the argument that if he was re-elected, the “fever" would break. Washington would no longer be the graveyard of progress, the crypt of consensus. Once ....MORE
Victor Davis Hanson
The monotonous Middle East
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
Since antiquity, the Middle East has been the trading nexus of three continents — Asia, Europe and Africa — and vibrant birthplace to three of the world’s great religions. Middle Eastern influence rose again in the 19th century when ....MORE
David Brooks
Engaged or detached?
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
Let’s say you are a young person beginning to write about politics and policy. You probably have some idea of what you believe, but have you thought about how you believe it? That is to say, have you thought about where you will sit on the....MORE
The 'unacceptable face of banking'
• After a financial scandal, Barclays' Robert Diamond was forced out by the British government
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
In the sparse office he now occupies in the Seagram Building in Midtown Manhattan, Robert Diamond Jr., the former CEO of Barclays, paced in circles and tried to explain how he had gone from being one of the highest-ranking and highest-paid bankers in Britain to a guy who takes the subway to this office in exile and waits in line for his coffee at a cart on Park Avenue. Not to suggest that times....MORE
Following through on threats
May 4, 2013 4:00 am
Polybius, in his “Histories," tells the story of Antiochus IV, ruler of the Seleucid Empire, who invaded Egypt during the second century B. C. The Egyptians, led by Ptolemy, sent urgently to Rome for assistance. When the Roman ambassador....MORE
In my view
eIllegal immigration has devastating human costs
May 4, 2013 4:00 am
Some people consider illegal immigration a victimless crime and new civil right. However, it inflicts enormous human costs on Americans every day. Citizens who have suffered its effects and found themselves ignored are the ones truly “living....MORE
Janet Stevens
eMany things distract from driving, not just phones
May 3, 2013 4:00 am
I had a minor car accident last Friday. No one was hurt, no police called, no car towed. And no, I wasn’t texting or talking on my cellphone at the time. I was distracted, however, and that’s what caused the accident. In my case, I was....MORE
In my view
eSewer system upgrade more important than parks
May 2, 2013 4:00 am
“Will the Boat Sink the Water?" is the title of a recent book describing Chinese peasants’ struggles against their bloated, over-reaching government. This intriguing title might also refer to our politicians’ cavalier attitude....MORE
In my view
eRestore funding for seniors
May 2, 2013 4:00 am
We received a letter from Central Oregon Council on Aging dated March 13 regarding the cuts that are being made to our Meals on Wheels and Congregate Meals. It states that these meals are being reduced from $3.50 to $3 per meal starting April 1. It....MORE
In my view
eFunds from license plate help abused, neglected kids
May 1, 2013 4:00 am
Child abuse and neglect is a problem in our community. In 2011, according to the Oregon Department of Human Services “2011 Child Welfare Data Book," over 450 Central Oregon children were abused or neglected, most of them by their own families. ....MORE
Inmates do time with music
April 28, 2013 4:00 am
I visited the Deer Ridge Correctional Institution recently, to write about a new entrepreneurship course offered there. That....MORE
Costly overlap in the branches of the military
April 28, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON —Like young schoolchildren wildly chasing a soccer ball, each military service pursues its own intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) collection platforms and the analytical systems required to understand the....MORE
How geography defines U.S. attitudes
• U.S. has advantage of non-aggressive neighbors Canada, Mexico and access to 2 oceans
April 28, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON —Do Americans have a worldview? And is there a central organizing principle that explains it? To frame the....MORE
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Support local bonds
April 28, 2013 4:00 am
Not too long ago, a skeptic of The Bulletin's editorial positions suggested that it was the only tax-and-spend, conservative editorial page he had ever read. We all smiled, but the remark begs a legitimate question. How can a newspaper that regularly ....MORE
Deportation politically incorrect
April 28, 2013 4:00 am
Deportation has become a near-taboo word. Yet the recent Boston bombings inevitably rekindle old questions about the way the U. S. admits, or at times deports, foreign nationals. Despite the Obama administration's politically driven and cyclical....MORE
We still have a health-care spending problem
April 28, 2013 4:00 am
With every new report about the recent slowdown in health-care spending there is speculation in the media that the problem of rising health costs has somehow been solved or cut down to size. We have seen this movie before. On a number of occasions in ....MORE
Goodbye to all that
April 28, 2013 4:00 am
On April 13, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad of the Palestinian Authority resigned. It was an easy development to miss, but not one to be ignored. It was very bad news, because Salam Fayyad was the “Arab Spring" before there was an Arab Spring.....MORE
In My View
e2 bills, plus jobs, will get ‘zombie homes’ on the market
April 27, 2013 4:00 am
Today’s foreclosures are a consequence of a problem created several years ago. Without a time machine to go back and solve the initial problem (whether it stem from the bank or the borrower), we are left to deal with the consequence.....MORE
Lessons we learn with kids
April 27, 2013 4:00 am
From the file of “important things I accidentally learned by having small children" come the following tips. May you use....MORE
In My View
eExpanding management is good for forests’ health
April 26, 2013 4:00 am
In a recent “In My View" column, it was argued the best way to assure forest health is to do absolutely nothing. Allowing forests to remain vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire, insects and disease, it was argued, is simply a natural part of....MORE
Janet Stevens
eExpanding job opportunities for the intellectually disabled
April 26, 2013 4:00 am
If you’re the parent of a child with an intellectual disability, there can be a certain security in knowing she is spending her days with other disabled men and women. That was true for me when my daughter Mary went to kindergarten in Bend; it....MORE
In My View
eFor farmers and ranchers, every day is Earth Day
April 25, 2013 4:00 am
Since its beginning in 1970, the celebration of Earth Day has led to an enormous growth in understanding of the fragile nature of our natural resources. It has led to more action to protect our planet’s land, water, air, wildlife and us as....MORE
Why fear lingers after tragedies
April 24, 2013 4:00 am
The great psychologist William James was Gertrude Stein’s teacher and mentor. As legend tells it, James once posed a single question on a final examination: “What is risk?" Stein wrote, “This is," walked out of the examination room,....MORE
In my view
eIt’s time to demand some integrity from our leaders
April 24, 2013 4:00 am
I have some thoughts regarding the bombing attack at the Boston Marathon on April 15, other news stories circulating the nation and the ongoing reports of shootings and mass killings. The Boston bombing is not something new. Since Oklahoma City in....MORE
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Does Columbine offer any insights into the Tsarnaev brothers?
April 23, 2013 4:00 am
My Twitter feed has been flooded with this theme: The Tsarnaev brothers seem more like the Columbine killers than al-Qaida. Maybe. Either, neither or it could easily be a combination. It’s way too early to know. The first thing I learned....MORE
Talking to teens: just listen
April 21, 2013 4:00 am
Asking what teens care about is a little like asking what women want; any question about an entire demographic can only be....MORE
Editor's choice
What 9/11 teaches us about 4/15
April 21, 2013 4:00 am
You could be forgiven for thinking that you had stepped into a time machine this past week. The country witnessed a terrorist attack in Boston, two letters laced with poison were aimed at the White House and a U. S. senator, and a series of suspicious ....MORE
American Owned?
• Many of America’s favorite brand names aren’t really American anymore
April 21, 2013 4:00 am
It’s Saturday night and you want to go see a movie. You fire up your IBM ThinkPad and check the listings. The local AMC....MORE
Maureen Dowd
A trail of victims and unanswered questions
April 21, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Over the winter, I heard military commanders and White House officials murmur in hushed tones about how they would have to figure out a legal and moral framework for the flying killer robots executing targets around the globe. They ....MORE
Thomas Friedman
Bring on the next marathon
April 21, 2013 4:00 am
Looking at scenes of the Boston sidewalk a few hours after Monday’s bombing — torn clothing, bloodstains, shards of glass — I found my mind going back to a similar sidewalk in Tel Aviv in September 2003. A Hamas suicide bomber had....MORE
in my view
eJob fairs give veterans a chance to show their talent
April 21, 2013 4:00 am
On April 11, The American Legion and other community organizations sponsored a job fair at the Bend Armory for veteran job seekers and their spouses. It was encouraging to see the attendance of active-duty military members as well as reservists and....MORE
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Future of journalism
April 21, 2013 4:00 am
For a number of years, I have headed to Ann Arbor, Mich., in early spring to interview journalists. If the group this year was an accurate barometer, the best and most aspiring journalists have a very positive feeling about what they do. That's a....MORE
Good ways to avoid saving money on defense
April 21, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Congress has an opportunity to save billions of dollars in Defense Department spending without hurting national security — but odds are that lawmakers won’t do it. President Obama has set the stage in his fiscal 2014....MORE
Victor Davis Hanson
We’re a nation of moral schizophrenics
April 21, 2013 4:00 am
More than 500 people were murdered in Chicago last year. Yet Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel still found time to berate the fast food franchise Chick-fil-A for not sharing “Chicago values" — apparently because its founder does not approve of....MORE
In my view
eMovie ‘42’ portrays a significant historical moment
April 20, 2013 4:00 am
The new movie, “42," tells the story of the breaking of the color barrier in Major League baseball almost 70 years ago (1947). Jackie Robinson’s selection by Branch Rickey, then owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, to play with the Dodgers AAA ....MORE
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