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FAQs about Bend Don't Break:How many episodes does Bend Don't Break have?The podcast currently has 387 episodes available.
June 25, 2020Mental Health Crisis InterventionFor this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast our guest is Holly Harris, the crisis services manager for Deschutes County. She’s worked in the behavioral health field for 17 years with a primary focus on the intersection of criminal justice and mental health. Right now she’s working to get the Deschutes County Stabilization Center up and running, which just opened last week and serves people in the community who are experiencing a mental health crisis....more34minPlay
June 24, 2020Source Weekly Update 6/24/20Local runners adjust their training with no Olympic Trials, Juniper Ridge campers move on, and the story behind the "Rock Box," the party bus that rolls around Bend, all in this week's Source Weekly Update....more9minPlay
June 19, 2020A Central Oregon "Dreamer" on the Supreme Court's DACA decisionLiliana Bernabe was featured in the 2018 Source Women's Issue, sharing her story of living in the U.S., after coming to the country from Mexico as a young child. The Source checked back in with Bernabe following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the Trump Administration's effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offered protection from deportation for people who entered the U.S. as children. Bernabe joined Editor Nicole Vulcan and Source intern Miina McCown for a chat about her reaction to the ruling....more17minPlay
June 19, 2020Paralytic Economy: Josh Lehner's Predictions for RecoveryThis week our guest is Josh Lehner, an Oregon state economist whose work has been published in the New York Times, NPR and the Washington Post. With a particular focus on the outlook for Central Oregon, Josh talks about the region’s strong professional services sector and how these types of jobs will play an insulating factor in the local economy, despite tourism’s devastating decline....more32minPlay
June 17, 2020Source Weekly Update 6/17/20Central Oregon Pride goes virtual, Deschutes County Sheriffs investigating knee-on-neck incident and zero cases found in the OSU COVID TRACES study....more9minPlay
June 12, 2020Small Business Survival: Ben Hemson City Of Bend Business AdvocateCheck out the latest episode of the Source's Weekly's "Bend Don't Break" podcast hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer. This week our guest is Ben Hemson, the City of Bend Business Advocate. Ben hasn't gotten much sleep since the pandemic began. He's been doing everything from helping local businesses with their loans from the federal government to managing a new program to allow businesses to move out into the streets to sell goods and serve meals. He said local businesses are still split 50/50 on whether they are feeling hopeful or doomed in the new economic environment. Still, summer tourists should bring some cash into the local economy, hopefully without bringing COVID-19 along with them. We also learned about Bend's remote working trend and how the pandemic may attract even more urban escapists in the months to come....more30minPlay
June 10, 2020Source Weekly Update 6/10/20Body cams for Bend Police, but budget cuts for other departments within the City of Bend, and an update on what researchers are finding by studying Bend's sewers for evidence of COVID-19, all in this week's Source Weekly Update....more8minPlay
June 09, 2020Erika McCalpine on anti-racism in Central OregonErika McCalpine, the Source Weekly's 2019 Woman of the Year, a business professor at OSU-Cascades and the leader of the Love Your Neighbor project, sits down with Source Editor Nicole Vulcan to talk about anti-racism work in Central Oregon....more27minPlay
June 04, 2020Keys to the County: Commissioner Patti Adair in the time of COVIDCheck out the latest episode of the Source's Weekly's "Bend Don't Break" podcast hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer. This week our guest is Deschutes County Commissioner Patti Adair. She held the fate of the county in her purse as she drove a paper copy of the region's reopening application directly to Salem last month. We talk hogs, rodeo queens, saw mills and ranchers....more25minPlay
June 03, 2020Source Weekly Update Podcast 6/3/20The tourists are coming out in numbers, St. Charles' financial woes and a recap of Black Lives Matter protests in Central Oregon in this week's podcast....more9minPlay
FAQs about Bend Don't Break:How many episodes does Bend Don't Break have?The podcast currently has 387 episodes available.