Body 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.

Erika 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.

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 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.

The 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.

"Bend Don't Break" is a weekly podcast hosted by the Source Weekly's publisher Aaron Switzer that features a variety of local perspectives on how the community is managing the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. This week our guest is Kelly Cannon-Miller, the executive director of the Deschutes County Historical Society which operates the Deschutes Historical Museum in downtown Bend. She shares stories of the 1918 Spanish flu in Bend and the local heroes that arose out of the crisis.

Deschutes County gets an "F" after a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, OSU researchers headed to Bend to do a COVID study, and Bend moves forward on plans for the Core Area—all stories found in this week's podcast. Find more Central Oregon stories at bendsource.com

Phase One reopening in Deschutes County! Is anyone enforcing regulations? Will downtown Bend be car-free? Local heroes!

Derek Glasser of Yellowknife Wireless joins the Source Weekly's publisher Aaron Switzer to talk about the huge disparities in broadband access here in Central Oregon. While this is an issue that is likely top of mind for anyone without a connection in normal times, during the pandemic, this glaring inequality has proved a challenge for local school districts. Check out the follow-up article at bendsource.com to learn more about why this is still an issue in 2020, and what the federal government is trying to do about it.

Businesses get set to reopen in Central Oregon after the COVID-19 shutdown, but it's not business as usual.

Local DJ Dave Clemens came on this week to talk about his experiences working as a radio host during the pandemic. He's been in radio since 1990 and won the Source Weekly's 2019 Reader Poll for "Bend Local Radio Personality." Clemens says he's "just the right amount of famous."