Sage--fodder.

Along with the weird ass mug shots, the other thing you can depend on from the KTVZ.COM website is that every time a crime is reported there will be a number of comments along the lines of: "Throw the bums in jail and throw away the key!!"

And if they can start throwing these cell phone driving jerks in there, I'm all for it.

So on that basis, we need a bigger jail.

Still, it does seem to be something that isn't immediately necessary, if it was based on boom projection numbers.

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Heroin in Central Oregon.

So when you become addicted to heroin or meth, what do you say to yourself?

"I didn't know it was addictive?"

I really don't get this....

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You know, I would've thought if there was ever a heavily regulated industry, it would be coal mines. Kind of a shock that the regulations are "weak" and "rarely enforced."

I suppose it's one of those things that is a 'shock' every time there is an accident, and then it just fades away until the next time.

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This statement in an editorial in today's Bulletin seems dubious to me: "...we could have averted crushing tax increases during the depth of a god-awful recession, and not the risk of the flight of private employers from the state..."

"Crushing" tax increases? Really?

Some examples? Or is any tax increase a "crushing" tax increase. I believe the corporate tax was pretty minimal and long overdue.

"Risk of flight," well, O.K. "Risk of"...not the same thing as it actually happening. Wouldn't we have some evidence of that happening by now?

I know it all accumulates and all, but really, the new jail would add all of 3.00 a month to my mortgage payment. Hardly a number to hyperventilate about....and I get more than 3.00 a month aggravation from the cell phone driving jerks a month. Throw the bums in jail!

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Got to admit, the Bulletin's editorial policy is consistent.

Against school bonds.

For fast food blight in Sisters.

Against any new taxes...

Except for the new jail.

Heck, you don't even have to read the editorial, you can tell just by the placement of the story and the headline. The news isn't that there is an opponent to Sen. Wyden, but that the opponent is in "position" to "beat" Wyden.

I don't know if they've editorialize the jail measure yet, but a front page article with the headline of "need is still there" kind of gives me an idea of where they'll come down.

And at a time when our infrastructure seems to be falling apart around us, they give the "Bend builders" a headline about "lower fees". This seems to me to be the government equivalent of 'Sell it at a loss, but make up for it in volume."

Like I said, at least they're consistent.

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