City council candidate does not appear to meet residency requirement
Erlin Taylor, owner of a Portland-area property management company, registered to vote in Bend for the first time on a Wednesday and filed to run for city council the next Monday. She has never voted in Bend or Deschutes County.
Don’t Trust Strangers: Politics Edition
We have a transparency problem in this town and it seems to keep coming from the same source.
The public shouldn’t need context to trust police are not members of terroristic militias.
There is a political axiom – “if you’re explaining, you’re losing.” It’s attributed to Ronald Reagan and gets at issues of public trust. Bend Police Department Corporal Joshua Spano was photographed on Saturday wearing a non-regulation patch on his duty uniform reading “MOLON LABE.” Come Monday, Bend PD will likely be explaining. Or trying to. […]