Bend Don't Break

The Source sits down with a leader the Greater Idaho movement, the effort to move Oregon’s border and fold more counties into the state of Idaho. Matt McCaw is the Crook County Move Oregon’s Border Captain and has been actively involved with both Move Oregon’s Border and Citizens for Greater Idaho for almost two years. I am a lifelong Oregonian raised in Bend, father and foster-parent of 8. He and...

The Source sits down with Steven Ames of the Bend Vision Project—Part of Envision Bend—to talk about this new process for envisioning Bend's future. Ames is a consulting long-range planner and principal of NXT Consulting Group of Bend and Portland, Oregon. Author of the American Planning Association’s award-winning Guide to Community Visioning, Steven has worked with more than 80 communities...

Roger Worthington lives to ride his mountain bike, play with his dog Diggy, and drink beer with friends. He owns Worthy Brewing; Indie Hops - a hop breeding company in the valley and a law firm in Los Angeles that specializes in asbestos cancer. He’s the president of the Worthy Garden Club, a non profit whose mission is to help connect people to the natural world so we can become better stewards....

Jill Mahler recently stepped down from her role as station manager and executive director of KPOV, Bend's local non-profit community radio station. Mahler started her KPOV career in 2008, as part-time office manager of the then-fledgling station, with a passion for community and no media experience. Over the years she aided KPOV in growing from a small low-power station to a Central Oregon in...

As Jack Zika finishes up his last legislative session, we talk about some of his biggest accomplishments during his time in office. He tells us about dollars brought back to Central Oregon from Salem, the controversial changes of the boundaries of House District 53 and his hopes for the future of the district. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Bend is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States—yet people here often wonder why certain developments take so long to get off the ground, or why a project not favored by the public got off the ground anyway. In this podcast, Russ Grayson of the City of Bend discusses Oregon's land use policy, the barriers and limitations to developing housing and other properties, the City&apos...

Kate Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Deschutes River Conservancy, talks with Source Publisher Aaron Switzer about the new water bank pilot project for the North Unit Irrigation District, which allows farmers to obtain water from other water rights holders. The program is aimed at easing some of the pain of ongoing drought for farmers who saw field lay fallow in 2020 and 2021 due to irrigati...

Kim Gammond joins the Bend Don't Break podcast this week, talking with the Source about her vision for the City Club of Central Oregon, its mission, future topics of conversation and the challenges the organization has faced in creating programming around community conversations during a global pandemic. Kim Gammond is the Executive Director at the City Club of Central Oregon. A proud graduat...

Another skier dies after falling in a tree well at Mt. Bachelor, and omicron rages through Oregon—though it's proving to be less deadly than past variants. Get it all in this week's Source Weekly Update podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

We look back at this year's top stories in this Source Weekly Update Podcast! Send us Fan Mail Support the show

In part three of a three-part series of interviews on approaches to homelessness in Bend, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz talks about how officers respond to calls involving people experiencing homelessness, how that work impacts levels of service elsewhere and much more. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

A fundraiser in honor of a fallen Bend kayaker, a new space for El Sancho and the rollout of a partnership between the sheriff's office and an addiction treatment center... all in this week's Source Weekly Update podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

A plea in the Barry Washington, Jr. murder case, monitoring Bend's sewers for the omicron variant and an effort to assess the impact of short-term rentals on home prices in Bend, all in this week's podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

The advent of a new COVID variant, more delays for the ski season and an upcoming legislative session to manage the flood of renters seeking to avoid eviction, all in this week's Source Weekly Update podcast. (Editor's note: this version of the story on the Omicron variant stated that the variant originated in South Africa—a fact we have found to be erroneous. The variant was first disco...

Finding solutions for the unhoused is a hot topic in Bend and elsewhere, as housing gets more expensive and income inequality continues to grow. In Central Oregon, the Homeless Leadership Coalition is at the forefront of the effort to find solutions and to support those experiencing homelessness. In this podcast, Eliza Wilson, a member of the Homeless Leadership Coalition and a program manager for...

A new name for Bend's biggest venue, and an embattled former executive director of the Bend FC Timbers speaks about the allegations against her, all in this week's podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

School boards across the country have faced increasingly hostile public input this year over the purported inclusion of Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools, indoor masking and a host of other topics—and the school board in Bend and La Pine has definitely seen more than its usual share of this type of input. In this podcast, Bend-La Pine Schools' board chair Melissa Barnes Dholakia and Superi...

Vaccines for kids and more plans for a houseless village for Bend, all in this week's podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

News about River's Edge Golf Course, a new clinic and housing development and a new building for the Latino Community Association in this week's Source Weekly Update Podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

New food carts for Sisters and Bend, and health workers out of a job after the vaccine mandate, all in this week's news podcast for Bend, Oregon and beyond. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Jeff Eager of the Bend Humanity Coalition sits in for a session of Bend Don't Break with Publisher Aaron Switzer and Editor Nicole Vulcan, talking about the goals for the group and their desire to see more enforcement of the laws around houseless camps in the city of Bend. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

An outcry over the new "Fast Tracks" program at Mt. Bachelor, the closure of a beloved Mediterranean restaurant and a new beginning for the old Sparrow Bakery location, all in this week's podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Local reaction to the shooting death of Barry Washington, Jr., and Bend restaurants appear on Guy Fieri's show, all in this week's podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

The death of a young man on the streets of Bend after a bar fight, and a push to make Bend's streets safer through a survey and upcoming conference... all in this week's Source Weekly Update. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Will a managed houseless camp work at the proposed new site between two schools in Bend? And with COVID cases at their highest level ever, officials think they're seeing them peak. All that in this week's podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show