“Nostalgia for common sense”

Newspaper letters to the editor, like many social media sites, are frequently a disheartening exercise in discovering a none-too-bright local populace. Newspaper readers tend to show a bit more intellect with missives occasionally even reaching erudite, something that...

“Love Letter” ban banned

Hard to believe this made it into law… The state of Oregon won’t keep fighting to enforce a first-in-the-nation ban on real estate “love letters” and will pay a Bend real estate group more than $60,000, according to a draft settlement filed in...