For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast, we talk with Ben Gordon, the head of Central Oregon LandWatch, a local environmental watchdog nonprofit. COLW has been working behind the scenes for decades to mitigate the effects of urban development and wasteful water use.

In this week's Source Weekly Update were focusing on the grey area connected to wearing masks in public. Later, we’ll talk about Bend's tourism and the role it has been playing during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the economic impacts the city of Bend is facing due to the pandemic. All in this week's Source Weekly Update.

For this week's "Bend Don't Break" podcast, we talk with Jeff Eager who is a Bend business attorney and former mayor of Bend. He talks with the Source to share his perspectives on the coronavirus lockdowns, the protests against police brutality and the need for competent leadership in the wake of a worldwide pandemic.

In this week's Source Weekly update were focusing on water: we explore the struggles of farmers in Jefferson County during a drought year and importance of the North American Beaver to our water system. Finally we'll finish with a summery of the best movies, shows and books of 2020 (so far). All in this week's Source Weekly Update.

For 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.

Local 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.

Liliana 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.

This 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.

Central Oregon Pride goes virtual, Deschutes County Sheriffs investigating knee-on-neck incident and zero cases found in the OSU COVID TRACES study.

Check 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.