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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....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....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....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, ....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
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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 trying to link their product/service/idea to current events. For example, hurricane season on the East Coast cannot pass....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....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
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