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Embryo adoption offers couples another way to make a family. bendbulletin.cern/extras
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Bend’s City Council will
be asked to decide tonight whether bike and pedestri›
an upgrades ought to be in› cluded in a proposed pack› age to improve the city’ s transportation system. Tuesday, City Councilors Doug Knight, Barb Camp› bell and Casey Roats met with City Manager Eric
EDITOR'SCHOICE
Pocahontas’ tribe wins recognition from LI.S.
King and representatives
of the Bend Chamber of Commerce and Bend 2030 to develop a process
that will persuade local residents to support new taxes or fees to improve the
transportation infrastruc› ture. Recent discussions of the issue have included
a possible gas tax, a fee By Noah Bierman Los Angeles Times
PAMUNKEY RESER› VATION, Va. The tidal river that surrounds this spit
of scrubby land has long functioned like a moat that rises and falls through the day. A single road connects the reservation’s sycamore,
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Glen Ardt, a resident of the Shevlin Commons subdivision, looks over the charred area of a spot fire that jumped Shevlin Park Road during a tour by Project Wildfire of the Shevlin Fire site Monday.
By Dylan J. Darlinge The Bulletin
from large retail stores and suburban office parks of
utility bills, vehicle regis› tration fees and a food and beveragetax. Bend faces an estimated $80 million in deferred street maintenance, while transportation advocates and Bend 2030 have noted the city also needs to identi›
People living close to where the Shevlin Fire burned earlier this year took a look this week at what kept the fire small.
fy funding to improve bike lanes, sidewalks and public
poplars and modest houses with miles of cornfields that separate the tribe
attached to local residents’
transit. Bend 2030 is a non›
profit focused on managing the city’s growth. SeeFunding/A4
Getting their shoes dusty, about a dozen Shevlin
Commons neighborhood
eastern Virginia. The Pa›
residents went on a Monday
munkey have lived on and around these 1,200 acres
afternoon field trip led by officials with Project Wild›
for centuries, since before
with English colonists in
fire, Deschutes County and Bend Park & Recreation District. The I t/2-milewalk started at a community
1607. "We call this downtown
center and wound to where firefighters stopped a spot
Pamunkey," saidKim Cook, the 50-year-old grand› daughter of Chief Tecumseh
fire just south of Shevlin Park Road and then to
Deerfoot Cook.
ened part of Shevlin Park.
Teaching teachers: Is it a waste?
Glen Ardt, who lives in Shevlin Commons and
By Lyndsey Layton
their most famous ancestor, Pocahontas,made contact
She smiled. The only noisecame from birds
where the main fire black›
chirping among the pines by the old fishing shanties.
went on the field trip, in›
The onlyaction came when
burned.
a cousin stopped by to re› lieve Cook’s 8-year-old son, River Ottigney Cook, of his boredom by taking him on a boat ride. Otherwise, Cook
The Washington Post
spected where the spot fire SeeAftermath /A4
A new study of 10,000
Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin
In June, a helicopter flies over the Shevlin Fire west of Bend. The fire, which was human caused, burned mainly in Shevlin Park.
teachers found that profes›
sional development the teacher workshops and training that cost taxpay›
ers billions of dollars each year is largely a waste.
sat alone under a pavilion
The study released Tues›
beneath a ceiling fan, not far from a small pier used to fish for shad, glancing at her smartphoneasshetalked about her family’ s, and the
GOP debatelineup shows Fox'spower
tribe’s, history. SeeTribe /A5
The Associated Press
Clarification In a story headlined "Gas tax won’t be on ballot in November," which appeared Tuesday, Aug. 4, onPageA1, Bend 2030’s position on a possible bike registration fee and food and beveragetax may have beenunclear. Thegroup listed those items asoptions for discussion.
By David Bauder NEW YORK Iowa and New Hampshire are still on the
horizon but first there’s the Fox primary, and the buildup to this week’s first Republican presidential debate shows that the influence of Fox News
Channel on the GOP selection
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Inside • Who made the cut?AS process is stronger than ever. The rules for participation in Thursday’s televised debate
requiredcandidatestoreach a certain threshold in opinion polls, making national expo› sure to an interested audience
vital at a stage in the campaign when candidates are usually in early primary states. And where better to find that audi›
June and July, according to a count by liberal-leaning group
ence than on Fox News? The 17 candidates only 10 of whom are invited to the prime-time debate made a total of 273 separate appear›
Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee,
Media Matters for America.
Six hopefuls
Donald Trump,
Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina and Rick Perry have ap› peared 20 times or more on its channels, the network said.
ances on Fox News in May,
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The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper
day by TNTP, a nonprofit organization, found no evidence that any particu›
lar approach or amount of professional development consistently helps teachers
improve in the classroom. "We are bombarding teachers with a lot of help, but the truth is, it’s not
helping all that much," said Dan Weisberg, TNTP’s chief executive. See Teachers /A5
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