Who woulda thought that in late December the trails at Phils would be terrific and the trails in the desert would be sandy.

See ya out there Gregg!

- Richard Adler

Wow, I always read this section hoping you'll at least write Ron Paul's name somewhere in the column. You know the "kooky, crazy, Uncle Paul who supposedly "can't win" (aka won't be allowed to win) the GOP nomination because of his crazy non interventionist foreign policy, his views on the Federal Reserve, his ideas about the Patriot Act and the War on Drugs. Or wait, maybe you'll write about his "racist newsletters" and print his name while trying to smear him at the same time. Or perhaps you'll end up running a story about vote fraud, Iowa State GOP, and Ron Paul (hopefully that won't happen though) After Jan 3rd it will be inevitable to print his name whether in a positive or negative context, the R3VOLUTION will not be televised.

- Matthew Tress

Added more tvs and games shuffelboard tourneys on thursday exel food thanks Redmond.

- Steve Pearson

Are we to continue to use our mistakes to respond to our current problems? Or can we reflect a maturing and practical society by utilizing our precious natural resource of human minds and hearts by making a better choice and making the important small steps of becoming a more responsible and sustainable society. When we marginalize the upper class, making education quality prejudicial, and focusing our sustainability on short-term or in-the-box economics alone we risk the very foundation of our community itself, the empty houses of second home owners and the unavailability of housing markets for the middle and lower class, directly destroy us as a community, taking diversity and a preventing a solution of elevated community relationship and self efficient economic and environmental sustainability. I ask that we take our time to respond to what is most important to us as a maturing and responsible people looking to our most obliviously beneficial future, let’s make sure our Bend, Oregon, magnet schools are accessible, and fairly non- prejudicial to reflect our choice of concern for ourselves and each other as a community of the future by representing and advocating for our children now. Thank You.

– Ericka R. Hogg

The city should rethink their residential sewer fee also.  The flat rate is unfair to people who try to conserve water.  The sewer fee should be based on water usage, just as they're discussing above for businesses.

– JB