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Bend's plastic checkout bag ban: love it or hate it?
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886 Votes

Bend's plastic checkout bag ban: love it or hate it?

Love it!

14

Hate it!

16

Love it!

13 Comments
Marcia Y
2
Marcia Y

I've had made homemade bags in the past so this makes close to 10 years that I've used my own. Get with the people use recycle bags, save our Earth

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GT Thomas
GT Thomas

Do you understand a recent study shows bag bans are worse for the environment. Of course liberals hate facts.

E'Angela Shea
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E'Angela Shea

It's the right thing to do...only one Mother Earth🍃

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Kerry Knouse
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Kerry Knouse

Tired of seeing plastic bags everyday everywhere

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Kristin McKinley
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Kristin McKinley

Invited for this because we need to reduce our use of plastic. As a senior citizen, I have no problem remembering to take my own bags and they are much easier for my senior fingers to carry.

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Bob A. Bui
1
Bob A. Bui

Time to phase-out single-use plastics. Besides, groceries always fall out on the drive home.

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Beth Evans
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Beth Evans

It is about time we begin taking care of the environment - or in the not too distant future, the earth won't be habitable.

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Lani Shobe
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Lani Shobe

I've been carrying my own bags in for 10 yrs now. so I don't hardly notice.

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Donny Burklow
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Donny Burklow

I use the Winco bags from the valley and they are big and strong and only cost $1.59 each. Been reusing them for years.

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k san
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k san

It's love/hate 4 me. I believe in reducing plastic waste, but I never remember to bring my bags in with me, so it is a bit of an inconvenience. But I still support the movement. Just get used to it.

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Kerie Raymond
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Kerie Raymond

Absolutely no need for single use plastic bags. Use boxes like at G.O. or bring your own bag. Hate that ban was repealed until State ban comes in. Retailers are now stuck figuring out what to do

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poor turtle
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poor turtle

The grocery stores are paying for these bags and it increases the cost of groceries. Why bother at all with it if you can just bring your own?

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Hate it!

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Margo Sears
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Margo Sears

I think they should of had the people of bend vote on this!!before you know it,they going to tell a person you can't use your shopping bags!

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Dana Larson
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Dana Larson

I Will not be shopping in bend as long as they refuse to give out bags...its very inconvenient. I can shop in Lapine. They still give out bags.

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Sam Ackerman
Sam Ackerman

You understand that the Gov Queen witch passed this state wide.

GT Thomas
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GT Thomas

Tired of liberals pushing their phony beliefs on others especially when it makes things worse. Liberal Berkleybstudies show bag bans are bad.

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Charlene Hunter
1
Charlene Hunter

now I have to buy plastic bags for my waste baskets instead of reusing the grocery bags for trash

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Johanna Groza
1
Johanna Groza

Taking away bags and making us pay to use the recycled ones. Not to mention the paper bags rip and all the groceries end up all over the parking lot

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Joyce Hamlin-cutler
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Joyce Hamlin-cutler

It is time for the city council to spend it's time on what is important for the city and quit wasting time and tax payer's money on issues the should be addressed by at state and level.

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Lisa York
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Lisa York

Plastic bags shouldn't be banned...the stores should continue to charge for them though...people, especially the elderly, need time to build muscle memory to remember to bring reusable bags.

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Brad Livsey
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Brad Livsey

A socialistic sly move without vote. Look into the mountains of commercial plastics that aren't recycled. Bags are a drop in the ocean in comparison. Check this out plasticparadisemovie.com

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Judy Ostrom-Dixon
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Judy Ostrom-Dixon

Fine, do not give plastic bags, give paper, reuse boxes, lots of other solutions

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Heidi Owen
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Heidi Owen

It's right up there with Commiefornia's straws. LOL

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Douglas E. Wilson
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Douglas E. Wilson

bullshit over reactions!

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Sam Ackerman
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Sam Ackerman

While I have no problem banning the plastics bags. What i really hate is the tax that was added to paper bags. That just added to every ones grocery bill.

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Kerie Raymond
Kerie Raymond

Then bring your own bag and it'll be free!

JohnWayne Kenneth Pool
0
JohnWayne Kenneth Pool

Charging for them isn't a horrible idea, banning them is a step too far.

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Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?
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169 Votes

Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?

YES

0

NO

0

YES

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NO

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    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
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1,334 Votes

    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?

YES

12

NO

1

YES

12 Comments
Barb Hayden
3
Barb Hayden

Never should have been allowed in the first place! Bend needs to develop a site with bathrooms, showers and rules,like NO drugs and NO trash. At least Redmond is trying to help these people. Take a. Lesson from them. Get off the dime and solve the problem

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Cheri Trettin
1
Cheri Trettin

I say move the campers off forest land and onto main street if you want public funding for homelessness in Bend to become an immediate priority!!!

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Latterdaysaint
1
Latterdaysaint

Yes and build more homeless shelters or provide jobs for them

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Tylor Meyer
1
Tylor Meyer

They have had excessive amount of time to move off land they are not even allowed to live on!

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Just a voice Figg
1
Just a voice Figg

They have had ample time to move. Vegetation reduction helps slow and or stop wildfires that will eventually hit that area and destroy millions of dollars worth of homes and people's lives.

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Jeff Sanders
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Jeff Sanders

Living in SE Bend I really enjoyed going to China Hat with my Jeep to off road and walk with my dogs. The thought of being shot has kept me from doing that for a while now. Good riddance to the homeless and make it where they can't come back.

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Joe Dillon
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Joe Dillon

it is public land, NOT someones home! The public cannot use it without fear of saftey. We DONT need another human caused fire that happens EVERY year out there, we have enough to worry about with mother nature fires. Time to move on!

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Linda Knowlton
0
Linda Knowlton

Fire danger and trash in the forest

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jennifer stenkamp
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jennifer stenkamp

Being homeless is usually the result of bad choices. My taxes help pay for government land. Living there rent free and creating tons of garbage, being a true threat to causing wildfires, behaving in a lawless manner angers too many of us who manage to pay for real housing. Move them out now.

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Erin E Yates
0
Erin E Yates

We all have problems in life why do they think it is ok to do what they are doing, when the rest of us pay our taxes, go to work, get counseling if we have problems. The amount they spend on drugs, they could pay rent. It’s a choice and their choice is to do drugs and not work. DEATH and TAXES!!!

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Goth Gaga
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Goth Gaga

This homeless problem is a choice. These people are drug addicts that need to get clean and go back to work. They should be put into rehab while being counseled for their personal problems. Once clean they should be put to work doing tasks that prisoners do. If they refuse, then jail them.

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Ron Rommel
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Ron Rommel

The Homeless Campers are the wrong people on the wrong landscape due to their lack of cognitive awareness of fire. I and many others are willing to share grace for their position in life when they are willing to improve their situation through counseling, accepting shelter to transition life.

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NO

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Diana Cockerill
1
Diana Cockerill

They are humans and have no other options.We try not to let that happen to unwanted pets, yet have no problem in letting it happen to, what many consider, unwanted people!

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