Bend Residents - Pitch Quirky Local Feature Ideas

Introducing Barney's Bend Bugle - a local-news blast from my recent past, and back to the future! Hi, my local friends! As you may or may not have heard, I recently (semi)-retired from KTVZ after 21 years - fitting, no? - to care for my wife in her fight against cancer. But while being there for Deb is No. 1, of course, I also don't want to drive her any crazier than I already do - so I returned to one of my vibe-coding tools, Base 44, which I last used last year in a "competition" to create the Now Edition, and it's MUCH improved (as are any AI models) - so I created this little local news website in basically a couple days (with endless tweaking of course;-) I wanted to wait to share https://barneysbendbugle.com/ here until I had 3-4 local stories "in the can" - not in any way trying to compete with my former colleagues or any local media, much less ride the never-ending tide of the daily news. (A half-century of that is enough!) But on the other hand, I want to keep my storytelling skills alive, in rewarding, fulfilling fashion, and not have them atrophy. (The name is a salute to my amazingly fun bend.com days a quarter-century ago (funny where that URL takes you now!) and the weekly freebie publication, The Bugle/Bend Bugle. Besides, there's ALWAYS more fun, interesting stories to tell about our friends and neighbors, so ... here's where it's at so far! AI makes these things SO possible now - if you know what you're aiming for. I daresay the back-end CMS is also as user-friendly as the platforms I've used for decades! I hope you enjoy the site - which also features the latest posts to my various blogs, and I have more addition ideas in the works - and I am open to any feedback or thoughts (hopefully kind and constructive!) Oh, and if you have a novel story idea that is somewhere between a "brief" and way-deep research - quirky, fun, etc. - that no one else has done (hey, 50 years of working to "get it first but get it right!" (old UPI slogan) - just drop me a line. I tell people I'm such an open book, I use my real name on REDDIT. So what the heck, [email redacted] is best for now (or [email redacted] ) - thanks!