Bend Don't Break

For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast, we talk with Ben Gordon, the head of Central Oregon LandWatch, a local environmental watchdog nonprofit. COLW has been working behind the scenes for decades to mitigate the effects of urban development and wasteful water use. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

In this week's Source Weekly Update were focusing on the grey area connected to wearing masks in public. Later, we’ll talk about Bend's tourism and the role it has been playing during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the economic impacts the city of Bend is facing due to the pandemic. All in this week's Source Weekly Update. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

For this week's "Bend Don't Break" podcast, we talk with Jeff Eager who is a Bend business attorney and former mayor of Bend. He talks with the Source to share his perspectives on the coronavirus lockdowns, the protests against police brutality and the need for competent leadership in the wake of a worldwide pandemic. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

In this week's Source Weekly update were focusing on water: we explore the struggles of farmers in Jefferson County during a drought year and importance of the North American Beaver to our water system. Finally we'll finish with a summery of the best movies, shows and books of 2020 (so far). All in this week's Source Weekly Update. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast our guest is Holly Harris, the crisis services manager for Deschutes County. She’s worked in the behavioral health field for 17 years with a primary focus on the intersection of criminal justice and mental health. Right now she’s working to get the Deschutes County Stabilization Center up and running, which just opened last week and serves people in the c...

Local runners adjust their training with no Olympic Trials, Juniper Ridge campers move on, and the story behind the "Rock Box," the party bus that rolls around Bend, all in this week's Source Weekly Update. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Liliana Bernabe was featured in the 2018 Source Women's Issue, sharing her story of living in the U.S., after coming to the country from Mexico as a young child. The Source checked back in with Bernabe following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the Trump Administration's effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offered protection from deportation for p...

This week our guest is Josh Lehner, an Oregon state economist whose work has been published in the New York Times, NPR and the Washington Post. With a particular focus on the outlook for Central Oregon, Josh talks about the region’s strong professional services sector and how these types of jobs will play an insulating factor in the local economy, despite tourism’s devastating decline. Send us Fan...

Central Oregon Pride goes virtual, Deschutes County Sheriffs investigating knee-on-neck incident and zero cases found in the OSU COVID TRACES study. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Check out the latest episode of the Source's Weekly's "Bend Don't Break" podcast hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer. This week our guest is Ben Hemson, the City of Bend Business Advocate. Ben hasn't gotten much sleep since the pandemic began. He's been doing everything from helping local businesses with their loans from the federal government to managing a new...

Body cams for Bend Police, but budget cuts for other departments within the City of Bend, and an update on what researchers are finding by studying Bend's sewers for evidence of COVID-19, all in this week's Source Weekly Update. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Erika McCalpine, the Source Weekly's 2019 Woman of the Year, a business professor at OSU-Cascades and the leader of the Love Your Neighbor project, sits down with Source Editor Nicole Vulcan to talk about anti-racism work in Central Oregon. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Check out the latest episode of the Source's Weekly's "Bend Don't Break" podcast hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer. This week our guest is Deschutes County Commissioner Patti Adair. She held the fate of the county in her purse as she drove a paper copy of the region's reopening application directly to Salem last month. We talk hogs, rodeo queens, saw mills and ran...

The tourists are coming out in numbers, St. Charles' financial woes and a recap of Black Lives Matter protests in Central Oregon in this week's podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

"Bend Don't Break" is a weekly podcast hosted by the Source Weekly's publisher Aaron Switzer that features a variety of local perspectives on how the community is managing the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. This week our guest is Kelly Cannon-Miller, the executive director of the Deschutes County Historical Society which operates the Deschutes Historical Museum in downtow...

Deschutes County gets an "F" after a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, OSU researchers headed to Bend to do a COVID study, and Bend moves forward on plans for the Core Area—all stories found in this week's podcast. Find more Central Oregon stories at bendsource.com Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Phase One reopening in Deschutes County! Is anyone enforcing regulations? Will downtown Bend be car-free? Local heroes! Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Derek Glasser of Yellowknife Wireless joins the Source Weekly's publisher Aaron Switzer to talk about the huge disparities in broadband access here in Central Oregon. While this is an issue that is likely top of mind for anyone without a connection in normal times, during the pandemic, this glaring inequality has proved a challenge for local school districts. Check out the follow-up article a...

Businesses get set to reopen in Central Oregon after the COVID-19 shutdown, but it's not business as usual. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Local DJ Dave Clemens came on this week to talk about his experiences working as a radio host during the pandemic. He's been in radio since 1990 and won the Source Weekly's 2019 Reader Poll for "Bend Local Radio Personality." Clemens says he's "just the right amount of famous." Send us Fan Mail Support the show

A look ahead to the Oregon fire season, and linking air pollution and COVID-19 in this week's podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Keith Witcosky, Redmond's city manager, talks to the Source Weekly about what its like to run a city after declaring a state of emergency due to COVID-19. We walk through the controversies surrounding the tourism economy, how Redmond Airport factors into the conversation around reopening and the challenge of enforcing rules while respecting constitutional rights. Send us Fan Mail Support the...

Some of our top news stories in this week's Source Weekly Update Podcast. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Damon Runberg, a regional economist for Central Oregon, talks to the Source about trends in tourism, unemployment and some hope for the future. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Source Weekly Publisher Aaron Switzer and Reporter Laurel Brauns chat with BJ Soper, a Redmond, Ore. activist who helped organize the Town Hall at Redmond City Hall on April 17, calling for Gov. Kate Brown to re-open Oregon businesses ordered closed due to the threat of novel coronavirus. Send us Fan Mail Support the show