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Sisters Coffee named a top family business in Oregon
Sisters Coffee Co. has been recognized as one of the top family owned businesses in Oregon.The 30-year-old coffee operation is a winner of the 2019 Oregon State University College of Business’ Excellence in Family Business Awards. It won the category of “best business renewal.” “We are just continuing to build on mom and dad’s legacy,” said Justin Durham, the CEO of Sisters Coffee.Sisters Coffee… → Read More
First Interstate limits service at downtown Bend branch
The interior of the downtown Bend branch of First Interstate Bank will be closed for renovations until Dec. 9.The location at 1100 NW Wall St. closed Friday, First Interstate said in a statement. The drive-thru and ATM at the location will remain open during the renovation. Clients can meet with bankers at the bank’s Bend Commercial Center in the Patricia L. Moss building at 1070 NW Bond St.… → Read More
New House representative from Crook County sworn in
Rep. Vikki Breese-Iverson, R-Prineville, was sworn into office Tuesday by Secretary of State Bev Clarno. Gov. Kate Brown also attended the ceremony in the House chamber. Bryan Iverson, the new lawmaker’s husband, held a Bible during the swearing-in. Several family members also attended.Breese-Iverson represents House District 55, which includes all of Crook County and portions of Deschutes,… → Read More
Capitol roundup: New laws and lawmaker
SALEM — A new lawmaker, new laws, veto threats withdrawn, a big meeting and old hot button issue were part of the news mix this past week.Gov. Kate Brown had until Aug. 9 to sign or veto bills from the 2019 session of the Legislature.Lawmakers worried Brown would squash some bills and slash some budgets after she was asked by Politico if she would use the veto as payback against the 11 GOP… → Read More
Capitol round-up: Candidates getting jump start on 2020
SALEM — Competition is always the name of the game in politics. The past week showed candidates already gearing up for the 2020 election — even though the earliest they can file to run is more than a month away. Bend was a big winner in the race for federal highway dollars, while runny nose reform was one of the unsung losers in the last minutes of the 2019 session of the Legislature. A few → Read More
Zika looking forward to 2020
SALEM — After a nail-biting primary, an exciting general election, driving down snow-covered roads to be sworn-in at the Capitol, the hundreds of votes and hundreds of hours in committee, the courtesy and rancor, the wins and losses, leading up to a marathon finish, freshman Rep. Jack Zika, R-Redmond, needed a break.When House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, a sometime opponent and sometime… → Read More
Marathon session finishes intense Legislative year
SALEM — Lawmakers raced against the clock Sunday, hammering out dozens of bills as the midnight constitutional deadline to adjourn for the year ticked ever closer.The 2019 session of the Legislature ended just before 5:30 p.m. Sunday, with lawmakers using all but 6 1⁄2 hours of the 160-day session. Several pieces of the state’s two-year budget were approved, along with a slew of bills dealing… → Read More
Stalemate in Legislature endangers dozens of bills
SALEM — Who will blink? What if no one blinks?Those were the questions of the day Monday in the Capitol as a stalemate over a carbon cap bill threatened to last past Sunday’s deadline for the Legislature to adjourn.The legislative crisis began Thursday when all 11 Senate Republicans failed to appear for a vote on House Bill 2020, the carbon cap legislation expected to pass and go to Gov. Kate… → Read More
Oregon politics gearing up for 2020 election
SALEM — The November 2018 general election is a little over six months ago. Flip the calendar and the May 2019 Oregon primary is less than a year away, by which time the state will be a late arrival to the national electoral party.Last year, voters statewide voted for governor. Next year, they’ll pick a U.S. senator, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general, and make Oregon’s choice for… → Read More
Bend’s Bob Maxwell, nation’s oldest Medal of Honor recipient, dies
Robert D. “Bob” Maxwell, a longtime Bend auto shop teacher who received the Medal of Honor for jumping on a grenade to save his fellow soldiers during World War II, died Saturday night, according to a close friend.The passing of Maxwell, 98, was confirmed by Dick Tobiason of Bend, a veteran and longtime friend of Maxwell’s. Tobiason said Maxwell died of natural causes at about 9:45 p.m.… → Read More
Cylvia Hayes strikes new deal with ethics panel
SALEM — Former Oregon “first lady” Cylvia Hayes has a new deal to settle 22 state ethics law violations, a month after a previous agreement was scuttled.Hayes, a Bend resident, would pay $50,000 in fines under the “stipulated final order” up for a vote Friday by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission. The agreement was contained in the panel’s agenda, released Wednesday.Michael Fuller, Hayes’… → Read More
Capitol roundup: Gun rally and deadlines draw lawmaker’s focus
SALEM — Guns, gas, wildfires, and clock-watching were on the Legislature’s agenda during a busy week in the Capitol. Activity has ramped up as lawmakers face a Friday deadline to have policy bills scheduled for debate and a vote in a committee. Those policy bills that aren’t put on the calendar automatically die. The work session where bills can be amended, approved or rejected has to occur by… → Read More
Redmond housing plan gets first OK
SALEM — An affordable housing project targeting Redmond received unanimous approval Monday from a House panel.The House Human Services and Housing Committee voted 9-0 to advance House Bill 2336 to the full House with a “do pass” recommendation. Rep. Jack Zika, R-Redmond, is a co-sponsor of the House bill and a member of the committee. Rep. Cheri Helt, R-Bend, also sits on the committee. Both… → Read More
Applicants sought for Jefferson/Crook judgeship
Gov. Kate Brown said Wednesday she is seeking applicants for a vacancy on the Jefferson/Crook County Circuit Court.The judgeship opening is created by Judge Daniel J. Ahern’s announcement that he will retire March 31.Applicants should mail or deliver their completed application forms to: Misha Isaak, General Counsel, Office of the Governor, 900 Court St. NE #254, Salem, OR 97301-4047. The… → Read More
Big kicker likely coming — in 2020
SALEM — A flood of state income tax revenue has the state economist forecasting that Oregon’s “kicker” law will kick in next year, sending a projected median amount of $174 back to each taxpayer.“The kicker won’t be paid out until after the biennium is over, with taxpayers getting the credit when they file in 2020 for the 2019 tax year,” state economist Mark McMullen said Thursday.Under state… → Read More
Is Deschutes County shedding its “red” label in elections?
SALEM — Deschutes County voted a lot more like the Willamette Valley on Tuesday than the rest of Central Oregon.The county joined Portland in voting no on three key initiatives: a ban on grocery taxes, a repeal of the state’s sanctuary status for immigrants, and a ban on using public funds for abortion. Crook and Jefferson counties voted yes on all three. All three failed.An affordable housing… → Read More
Brown leading in race for Oregon governor
Democratic Gov. Kate Brown took an early lead over Republican Knute Buehler in the most expensive governor’s race in Oregon history.With 61 percent of the vote tabulated at 8 p.m., Brown was leading 50 percent to 44 percent for Buehler, with the remainder going to other candidates.Democrats have won nine races for governor in a row since 1986 — eight general elections and the 2016 special… → Read More
Third-party candidate drops out, endorses Kate Brown
SALEM — The Independent Party candidate for governor has suspended his campaign and endorsed Democrat Gov. Kate Brown, citing Republican Knute Buehler’s $2.5 million in contributions from Nike co-founder Phil Knight.Patrick Starnes, a Brownsville cabinetmaker and home renovator, made the announcement Wednesday during an appearance on television station KATU in Portland. Despite his action, it is… → Read More
Capitol round-up: Buehler tops Brown in fundraising
SALEM — Most voters have already received their ballots and some have already dropped them off or mailed them back. But the campaigns won’t be stopping until the 8 p.m. deadline Nov. 6. It’s two weeks until election day and money is once again at the top of the topic list of political discussions in and around the Capitol:Big, bigger, biggestRepublican Knute Buehler has pulled ahead of… → Read More
Democrats would need big upset to unseat Bentz
The sprawling Senate District 30 is the largest in the Legislature. It runs up from the Nevada and Idaho state lines before sweeping west to include a swath up to the Columbia River and down to Jefferson County and northern Deschutes County.It’s so big it includes two time zones — most of Malheur County in the southeastern edge of the district is in the Mountain Time Zone used by neighboring… → Read More