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Celebrate limits to double majority
May 23, 2013 4:00 am
Central Oregon voters approved all but one of the money measures on their ballots this week, choosing to support schools, public safety and recreation. Had this election taken place during the 10-year reign of the original double-majority rule,....MORE
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Celebrate limits to double majority
May 23, 2013 4:00 am
Central Oregon voters approved all but one of the money measures on their ballots this week, choosing to support schools, public safety and recreation. Had this election taken place during the 10-year reign of the original double-majority rule,....MORE
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Don’t allow off-leash dogs on park trails
May 22, 2013 1:06 am
Bend parks and trails are scenes of all sorts of polite — usually — clashes: Bike v. pedestrian. Duck and geese feeders v. Bend law. And off-leash dog v. on-leash dog or people or bikes. Some candidates for the Bend Park & Recreation....MORE
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Don’t reduce legal limit for drunken driving
May 22, 2013 1:01 am
We’re all for putting an end to drunken driving. In Oregon in 2011, alcohol-impaired drivers were involved in nearly 30 percent of all traffic fatalities, a figure that mirrors the national average closely. At the same time, however, imposing....MORE
The Bulletin’s endorsements
May 21, 2013 4:00 am
The deadline is 8 p. m. tonight to have your vote count on money measures and candidates for local boards. It’s too late to mail your ballot, but drop sites are listed on the websites of your county clerk and the Oregon secretary of state.....MORE
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City must take care of Pilot Butte Cemetery
May 21, 2013 4:00 am
Bend’s Pilot Butte Cemetery is a link to the community’s past unlike any other. In it are buried some of the city’s earliest residents and some far more recent, as well. The city of Bend owns the cemetery, the city’s oldest,....MORE
The Bulletin’s endorsements
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
Ballots must reach county election offices by 8 p. m. Tuesday. Drop box locations are available on the county elections and Oregon secretary of state’s websites. Be sure to sign your ballot. Below are The Bulletin’s recommendations. Our....MORE
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Bend should focus on needs not wants
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
Suppose you are making choices about what Bend’s police need. Would a mobile command vehicle be on the list?One part of Bend’s proposed budget for the next biennium that deserves some council scrutiny is the plan to buy a mobile command....MORE
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Email gives context to senators’ letters
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
When Oregon’s U. S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and other Democratic senators wrote to the IRS last year criticizing the agency’s regulations, they didn’t mention conservative groups. But Merkley’s email to supporters makes it clear....MORE
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Legislature fails on long-term PERS reform
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
Better than any governor before him, Gov. John Kitzhaber framed the problem with the state employee retirement system called PERS. Cut PERS or cut schools.“The average cost per pupil in Oregon will go up about $1,000 per pupil this next....MORE
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Internet freedom bill is a gesture worth making
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
While an official U. S. policy favoring global Internet freedom may not improve things in China or even here at home, adopting one is a gesture worth making. And so the U. S. House of Representatives did this week, approving H. R. 1580 unanimously and....MORE
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Computers testing writing goes too far
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Can a machine grade a writing test? Surprisingly, it’s a subject of some dispute, with dueling studies, impassioned statements and an online petition. A critical driver is money. As tests are being developed for the new Common Core K-12....MORE
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Government should update email policies
May 16, 2013 4:00 am
The government can’t routinely open a letter sent in the mail without a warrant. The same standard should apply to email, but it’s not clear if the IRS and the FBI bother much with warrants for email. The American Civil Liberties Union....MORE
Money measures and candidates await your vote
May 16, 2013 4:00 am
It’s time to cast your ballot. Voters in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties will decide numerous money measures and scores of board seats in Tuesday’s election. To be sure your vote counts:• Look at both sides of your ballot.....MORE
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Health exchanges provide critical transparency
May 15, 2013 4:00 am
When consumers can see price comparisons, the marketplace responds. That’s been rare in health care, but last week brought a speedy demonstration. The state posted proposed medical insurance rates from different providers, and some companies....MORE
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Don’t do an Oregon statue switcheroo
May 15, 2013 4:00 am
Those who hope to honor the late Mark Hatfield by putting a statue of him in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D. C., have the right idea — memorialize a great person in Oregon history — but the wrong location. The statue of the....MORE
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Tighten rules on DAs, collection companies
May 14, 2013 4:00 am
The Oregon Senate voted in late April to approve a measure designed to tighten the rules covering companies that collect on bad checks for local district attorneys. Senate Bill 525 would require that a bill collector working for the local district....MORE
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Noise ordinance needs to protect residences, too
May 14, 2013 4:00 am
Bend’s noise ordinance is getting a needed upgrade, but the revision flops when it comes to protecting homes from arbitrary enforcement. The Bend City Council is scheduled to vote on changes to the ordinance on Wednesday. The council made a....MORE
Bulletin endorsements
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
Editor’s Note: Please send election-related letters and guest columns no later than Wednesday. We will give priority to election submissions, publishing as many as possible before election day, May 21. Below are The Bulletin’s....MORE
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Don’t cut back federal funding for fuels reduction
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
The best time to fight a wildfire is before it starts. Reducing fuels reduces fires. There’s less threat to the public, firefighters, trees, wildlife and property. So why is the U. S. government planning to spend less on reducing fuels for....MORE
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Need more than IRS apology
May 11, 2013 4:00 am
News that the Internal Revenue Service made life difficult for some conservative political groups during the last election campaign got your juices flowing, if you are a suspicious sort. Employees of the agency’s Cincinnati, Ohio, office....MORE
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Don’t let PERS affect bond and levy support
May 11, 2013 4:00 am
If you’re considering a no vote on any of several money measures on Central Oregon ballots this month because you’re upset over problems with the state’s Public Employees Retirement System, don’t. You’re aiming at the....MORE
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Legislation could improve Oregon’s vaccination rate
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
The number of parents in Oregon who choose not to vaccinate their children continues to grow, and as it does so, it continues to raise the health risks for those who, for medical reasons, cannot be vaccinated. State senators will try to stem that....MORE
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Better to get involved than to complain later
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
It’s always easier to complain than to get involved and help find solutions. The latest local example is the lack of applicants for the city of Bend’s water treatment advisory board. The city has taken plenty of heat for the supposed....MORE
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Schools’ digital conversion is too much, too fast
May 9, 2013 4:00 am
The Bend-La Pine school district wants to educate its students “for their future, not our past," as the now-popular phrase goes. To that end, the district is making plans to dump traditional textbooks and hand a digital device — likely....MORE
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One sure thing: you’ll pay more for health care
May 8, 2013 4:00 am
For the 180,000 Oregonians who buy health insurance in the individual market, dramatic price changes are on the horizon. For some, those increases will be offset by tax credits, but others could face premium hikes of as much as 50 percent. So much for ....MORE
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Pass Knopp bill to catch crooks
May 8, 2013 4:00 am
Billions of health care dollars go to waste each year, siphoned off by criminals defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. State Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, has proposed a bill to try to do a better job of catching the criminals. Senate Bill 753 would allow the....MORE
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Study undercuts some health insurance notions
May 7, 2013 4:00 am
Gaining health insurance coverage doesn’t necessarily make people any healthier, according to a study of Oregon Health Plan members. That perplexing outcome is a worrisome reminder of the many unknowns as the nation prepares to extend medical....MORE
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Film industry tax incentives deserve extension
May 7, 2013 4:00 am
If you’ve watched “Portlandia" or “Grimm" in the last couple of years, you’ve seen the value of the Oregon Production Investment Fund, which reimburses filmmakers, television productions and others in those industries for....MORE
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Common Core’s benefits are well worth challenges
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
Opposition is growing in some states as testing nears on new Common Core education standards. The anxiety is understandable, but the potential benefits to students are well worth the predictable growing pains. The standards were instigated by the....MORE
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Don’t feed the wildlife
May 4, 2013 4:00 am
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife does not want you to feed wildlife. It doesn’t matter how cute the ducklings are, how polite the squirrel is, how cold the winter may be for the deer. Most people have heard the arguments before.....MORE
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Don’t give the money back to Forest Service
May 4, 2013 4:00 am
The stupid, undiscriminating sequester cuts have caused a stupid, discriminating mess for Oregon counties and the U. S. Forest Service. The Forest Service sent out $17.9 million in federal subsidies and has asked for the money back. It paid out the....MORE
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Social gaming poker should be left alone
May 3, 2013 4:00 am
Some Oregon lawmakers are throwing a legislative tantrum about social poker gaming. Businesses running social poker are making money. House Bill 3518 would make that illegal. The bill would only make such social gaming legal if it were on premises....MORE
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City has more urgent issues than 3rd Street
May 3, 2013 4:00 am
Given the problems the city of Bend faces, re-creating Third Street is hardly the community’s No. 1 priority, though it shouldn’t disappear from the to-do list entirely. Officials have said, for example, that they must delay work on....MORE
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Senate should approve bills on logging protests
May 2, 2013 4:00 am
Heated rhetoric aside, two bills approved by the Oregon House of Representatives on Tuesday should shift the burden created by logging protesters against work on state forest lands back where it belongs, on the protesters themselves. House Bills 2595 ....MORE
Approve Madras pool levy
May 2, 2013 4:00 am
Last time voters in the Madras Aquatic Center Recreation District were asked to tax themselves to help keep the district operating, the Jefferson County Sheriff opposed the idea. The levy, he said, could cost him badly needed funds to keep his own....MORE
Vote Pennington for Crook County park board
May 1, 2013 4:00 am
The Crook County Parks & Recreation District has battled the budget blues ever since the recession that began in 2008 and brought with it a decline in revenue from infrastructure systems development charges. That it has survived as well as it....MORE
Pick Norris, Stuart for Crook County school board
May 1, 2013 4:00 am
Only two races for the Crook County School Board are contested on the May ballot. In Zone 3, we urge voters to choose incumbent Patti Norris, 51, who is being challenged by Ray Graves, 56. Norris teaches business classes for Central Oregon Community ....MORE
Petke, Lundgren and Wilt for Black Butte school board
April 30, 2013 4:00 am
Tensions are running high in the Black Butte School District, where candidates disagree about the best way to preserve the tiny district, whose two-room schoolhouse has 24 students, only seven of them in-district. Three school board candidates, all....MORE
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Measure the noise to enforce the ordinance
April 30, 2013 4:00 am
Bend city councilors are going to talk noise at their Wednesday meeting. On the agenda, there’s a plan to polish away the ambiguities in the city’s noise ordinance. But the revision fails to purge the ordinance’s biggest....MORE
Support bond for Bend schools
April 28, 2013 4:00 am
Does the Bend-La Pine school district really need two new schools? Here’s one way to look at it: The district has been growing at a rate of about 250-300 students per year for decades. Much of that growth is at the elementary level. Most of....MORE
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