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Oregon is about to embark on an expensive experiment in trying to solve the riddle of homelessness.
Tucker Carlson got a journalistic scoop. A pretty big scoop, in fact. The Fox News commentator this week showed excerpts from 41,000 hours of U.S. Capitol Police security tape video recorded d…
About three people die every day in Oregon from unintentional drug overdoses. Fentanyl isn’t the cause of all of those deaths. It is the leader.
“We need a damn water plan,” Shemia Fagan, Oregon’s secretary of state said in January. “Far too many families lack access to clean water today, and many communities in Oregon are at high risk…
When we heard that the U.S. Forest Service, with the support of environmental groups, plans to send sharpshooters in helicopters to dispatch troublesome animals in New Mexico’s Gila National F…
We’ve been gratified to see the Grant County Court begin to grapple with the question of how to increase the budget for the sheriff’s office. It’s an important topic that calls for a thorough …
It’s drone hunting season in the Legislature. We counted at least five bills to regulate what are called in legislative legalese “unmanned aircraft systems.”
The odds are overwhelmingly against a large swath of eastern Oregon ever being patriated to Idaho. Yet, the idea persists and a lot of urban Oregonians can’t understand why.
A member of the Oregon Legislature is curious. He wants to know whether seeding clouds could produce more snowpack — and river runoff — that will benefit Oregonians.
Oregon and the United States face a nursing shortage. A significant number of nurses are nearing retirement.
It’s hard to answer the question: When is housing considered affordable? The people who do this work will tell you there is “affordable housing.” Then there is “Affordable housing.” (Note the …
However unlikely it might be that a majority of Oregon voters would agree to ban hunting, fishing, rodeos and most aspects of cattle ranching, it’s gratifying to see a state lawmaker taking st…
As the holiday season fades into the proverbial background, we want to remind the region — as we do frequently — that the reasons for giving during the holiday season still remain as important…
Oregon voters have made their feelings about the state’s income tax kicker system exquisitely clear.
The scope of the task is immense, the progress slow and sometimes inconspicuous.
Oregon’s new governor, Tina Kotek, faces an array of challenges but the news that one of her first actions as the state’s top lawmaker was to sign an executive order to set a goal of building …
Consider this: Your neighbor’s house is a real fixer upper in need of lots of improvements. It’s in such a terrible state it could even catch fire and that could spread to your home. And it tu…
The federal judge who on Tuesday, Dec. 6 refused to issue a temporary restraining order blocking Oregon’s gun control Measure 114 from taking effect offered some curious logic in her ruling th…
Across the state the need for food assistance continues to climb, and this is the perfect time of year for area residents to focus on their local food pantry and help with donations of money or food.
With persistent drought and climate change contributed to bigger, faster-moving wildfires over the past decade, we’ve never had a greater need for wildland firefighters.
The end of an election delivers great opportunity, and we hope newly elected governor Tina Kotek will be able to exploit the future prospects her selection by voters provides.
Oregon voters get a terrific opportunity to choose their next governor now, but that chance will be ruined if those who are elected don’t make an effort to change the political paradigm and di…
Unintended consequences from laws passed inside a moment of high emotion remain one of the great hazards for voters across the state and more care and thought needs to be conducted by legislat…
Here in Oregon, ballots for the Nov. 8 general election go out in the mail starting Wednesday, Oct. 19. As that happens to be the date of our next edition, you’ll find plenty of election stori…
Here at the Blue Mountain Eagle, we take pride in bringing you a wide variety of content. Most of the stories and photos you see in our pages are produced by our newsroom staff, which consists…
Everybody loves getting money in the mail, right? Well, sure. Except sometimes the money comes with strings attached. And that can create problems.
The existence of nitrates in groundwater is common in many parts of the world. It's when the concentration exceeds the level considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency that there'…
It wasn’t that long ago that advocates were promoting hemp as the crop that would save agriculture, promising unprecedented profits.
Any American over the age of 30 (and many younger ones as well) can probably tell you exactly what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001, when they first heard the shattering news of the worst ter…
The news flash from the Oregon Court of Appeals is that horses aren't people and can't file a lawsuit.
A question we hear in state meetings about climate, power and even discussions we have overheard at Bend’s Midtown Yacht Club: Does Oregon have enough electricity if everybody moves to using e…
The push to give cities in Oregon more leverage to decarbonize buildings got defanged in the Legislature this year. Instead, the bill got a do-over. It created a task force to look at ways to …
The maps are coming. That’s what Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, told The Bend Bulletin’s community editorial board Monday, Aug. 15 about the River Democracy Act.
This year’s wet spring and slow-starting summer delayed the inevitable, but we all knew that couldn’t last: Fire season arrived in Oregon at the beginning of August.
Oregon desperately needs a coordinated, effective, result-oriented and clear water policy that the legislature has approved and the governor supports.
Some weeks back we asked our readers, as we do every year, to take a short survey. In addition to some basic demographic information (which we will keep confidential), readers were asked how t…
On May 9, Derek Daley informed the Blue Mountain Hospital District Board of Directors that he intended to step down as the hospital district’s chief executive officer effective Aug. 3, a littl…
Good news from Congress is often hard to come by but the recent announcement from U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s office that a plan to modify the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center in Wa…
A gunfight broke out on the streets of Canyon City June 11, and everybody cheered.
There’s a saying in the news business: “If it bleeds, it leads.” The truth is, bad news grabs people’s attention, and that’s one reason it so often dominates newspaper front pages and televisi…
Our May 25 edition carried a story about corrective action taken with five members of the Grant School Board for using part of an executive session last summer to talk about matters that shoul…
Oregon does not have a detailed plan of how the state will improve K-12 education.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed legislation that makes the Private Forest Accord — a deal reached between the timber industry and environmental groups — the law in the Beaver State.
May is Wildfire Awareness Month and while the weather the past few weeks delivered wet and cold conditions it is wise for residents to remember the hot and dry days of summer are just around t…
By the time you hold this copy of the Blue Mountain Eagle in your hands, the dust will have settled (for the most part) on the May 17 primary election. Republican and Democratic voters will ha…
FEDEX can do it. UPS can do it. Why not the U.S. Postal Service?
Grant County residents have an important job to fill in the May 17 election. County Commissioner Sam Palmer has thrown his hat in the ring for the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate race…
The lead story in last week’s edition of the Blue Mountain Eagle focused on the so-called “sex talk” scandal, which involved an inappropriate relationship between a former Grant County correct…
If nothing else, the organizers behind the Greater Idaho movement are persistent.
The political leadership in the West needs to take note of the growing number of farm families that are picking up stakes and moving east.
The news the Oregon Department of Justice hired a special prosecutor to crack down on poachers did not roll across social media or the news wires with a snap, but it is a move that most hunter…
The political leadership in the West needs to take note of the growing number of farm families that are picking up stakes and moving east.
The recipe for Oreos. Facebook algorithms. The mix that makes a Black Butte Porter a Black Butte Porter.
President Biden has blamed the Russian invasion of Ukraine for rising fuel prices. But figures show prices have been on the rise for more than a year. The invasion and the ensuing bans on Russ…
State Treasurer Tobias Read has faced calls to pull state investments out of fossil fuels and NSO Group, an Israeli company whose software was used to spy on people’s phones. And now there are…
