Bend Bulletin RSS feed

Quick public service announcement: I’ve hacked together an RSS feed for the Bend Bulletin. It’s a first-pass, I’m scraping their Local, Business and Sports pages and building a summary feed only. If I have time, I may go one step further and pull each article on those pages, and provide a full-text feed. Either way,… Continue reading Bend Bulletin RSS feed

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The Crane Shed

I guess I was bound to comment on this sooner or later: The Crane Shed demolition here in Bend last Thursday, August 19th. It’s the big news around here. Here’s some recap: With a mighty roar, Crane Shed is no more: The initial Bend.com story which lays the groundwork Crane Shed demolition brings shock, sadness:… Continue reading The Crane Shed

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White trash cliché

Following up to the post I made about the deputy arrested on sex abuse charges, there was this last bit from the Bend.com article about the arraignment that’s been bothering me: In the front row for the arraignment was a supporter of Malloy’s, who had quite an unusual story to share.   “I know that… Continue reading White trash cliché

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Put him away for life

Disturbing local news: Deputy arrested on 180 child abuse, drug counts (from Bend.com) and the follow-up article: Deputy arraigned on 143 sex abuse, drug charges. This is way too creepy. The guy was a deputy for 10 years. So wrong. The articles state that the “charge of using a child in a sexually explicit conduct… Continue reading Put him away for life

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Interview photos

Following up on my interview for the Bulletin last week, today I went over to the Bulletin building to have my photo taken for the article. Actually, it was myself, Jake, and Chris from monkeyinabox all there for photos. Very interesting. The photographer took a bunch of pictures of each of us, then put us… Continue reading Interview photos

Quota Woes

The Deschutes County Sheriff just can’t catch a break. Not only are they dealing with some eyebrow-raising issues dealing with their budget and money, which I blogged about here, but now they’re awash in controversy over the establishment of quotas (“don’t call them quotas”). Jake has already written about this twice, here and here. And… Continue reading Quota Woes

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Interview

I was interviewed today by a reporter writing a story on local bloggers for the Bulletin. Very interesting, kind of cool. I’m not sure what will come of it other than myself sitting there yammering on semi-coherently, but the article will apparently be published next Thursday. I’ll have to pick up the paper to see.… Continue reading Interview

Sheriff Money

Isn’t it interesting that after the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office pushed so hard to get a levy passed for more money, with all the hand-wringing and guilt trips about people losing jobs and criminals being let out of jail, now all of a sudden they have extra cash? Aware of the likely criticism, Stiles insisted… Continue reading Sheriff Money

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Greyhound quits Bend

As reported on Bend.com, Greyhound is leaving Central Oregon: It is eliminating 260 stops, leaving 99 in the 13-state region. In Oregon, the list of 35 communities losing Greyhound service ranges (alphabetically) from Albany to Zigzag, with Bend, Klamath Falls, La Pine, Madras, Redmond and Warm Springs among those in the middle. Too bad. I… Continue reading Greyhound quits Bend

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Great Salt Lake life forms

Is this for real? Scientists Finding Strange Life Forms in Great Salt Lake   With levels now at a 30-year low, the salt in portions of the shrinking lake has reached saturation levels ten times the salinity of seawater. Westminster, the University of Maryland and George Mason University are not only finding life where life… Continue reading Great Salt Lake life forms

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