I’m sure you’ve seen the local commercials for "Talk of the Town"—the locally-produced cable-channel "town hall" TV program—and like me, haven’t paid them much mind. After all, they’re a little goofy in that "public access television" kind of way. But this Monday’s Talk of the Town sounds pretty interesting: it’s a "Meet Your Legislators" edition, with State Senator Chris Telfer, State Representatives Gene Whisnant and Judy Stiegler, and Deschutes County Commissioners Dennis Luke, Tammy Baney, … Continue reading →
Made available on the Deschutes County website is the 2009 State of County presentation, so I snagged it and converted it to PDF for anyone who’s interested. You can get it here. It’s about 3 MB in size. Originally it was a PowerPoint presentation, which explains the slideshow format, and the fact that it’s summarized and disjointed. But still interesting, if you’re into that sort of thing. The overall message is the poor economy… but … Continue reading →
Ever take time to read the City Code for Bend? It’s definitely interesting. Like Chapter 5, Offenses, section 5.070: Possession of a Throwing Star. (1) Definition: "Throwing Star" means any instrument, without handles, consisting of a metal plate having three or more radiation points with one or more sharp edges, and designed in the shape of a polygon, trefoil, cross, star, diamond, or other geometric shape for use as a weapon for throwing. (2) A … Continue reading →
Last night’s local elections for City Council seats were pretty tight (all except Position 4—Jim Clinton owned that one), and resulted in some surprises. Here are the results of the four seats that were up for grabs: Position 1: Peter Gramlich 13,684 (49.53%) Tom Greene 13,831 (50.06%) WRITE-IN 114 (0.41%) I expected Peter Gramlich to hold on to this one. Position 2: Jeff Eager 12,476 (44.95%) Jodie Barram 11,351 (40.9%) Dallas Brown 3,819 (13.76%) WRITE-IN … Continue reading →
After pointing to Deschutes County’s election results page earlier today, I’ve been watching it since 8pm (when the polls closed) to see local election results (aside from the Obama win, I’m very interested in some of the Oregon—and Bend—specific races). So far, though, there’s nothing—no results at all—which is a little frustrating. KTVZ’s election results, though, are showing a whole bunch of the Oregon election results (though only a few of the very local elections … Continue reading →
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