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• More than yea 2 rsand$18milion later,the roadwork iscompleted amonth aheadof schedule
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By Ted Shorack southeast Bend will be open
City officials are opening the section of road from SE
schedule. The $18.3 million project included adding a second lane to each direction east of the
to drivers in both directions
Third Street to SE 27th Street
American Lane bridge, 6-foot-
at 4 p.m. today, after more
aboutamonth ahead of
wide bike lanes, sidewalks
than two years of intermittent construction.
The Bulletin
Reed Market Road in
Cool cleaner — How
and a center turn lane. The project also included rebuilding the BNSF rail crossing as well as moving and rebuilding the American Lane bridge. "This was the centerpiece
"Walt's Magic Water" is changing the way threearea schools clean.B1
study suggests kids' feelings about marijuana could predict risky behaviors.A3
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Summit'S StarS — The girls soccer team's secret weapon? Its defense.C1
ther-son duo arebetting the farm that their malted barley makes better craft beer.Ce
And a Wed exclusiveWashington state's unique law makes it almost impossible to prosecute police officers who use deadly force. bendbnlletin.corn/extras
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Trade deal will be a tough sell politically By Christi Parsons and Michael A. Memoli Tribune Washington Bureau
sometime next year, the
deal offers a lot not to like — aggrieved constituencies ranging across the political spectrum — and little immediate benefit. Although business groups and some influential industries support the agreement, few bring as much passion to the debate as the opponents. As a result, congressional approval of the pact, once seen as a foregone
The Washington Post
How can we prevent future tragedies like the
shooting that took place Thursday in Roseburg? Some doctors believe the
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The proposed Skyline Forest project is still alive. Last February, Whitefish
treat it like disease. One
Cascade Forest Resources,
a Singapore-based investment company, bought
epidemiologist who spent a decade fighting AIDS, tuberculosis
is Gary
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Slutk i n, an
197,000 acres of Oregon
and cholera in Asia and
forestl and forareported $855 million. Included in
Africa. After returning to the
the deal were 33,000 acres
U.S. in the 1990s, Slutkin
just northwest of Bend's Shevlin Park, the former Bull Springs Tree Farm, which for the past 12 years has been targeted by the
had a realization. The patterns of violence he saw in U.S. cities looked eerily similar to how he had seen
Deschutes Land Trust as a
community forest. The deal came as a shock for many local recreationalists who had salivated at the thought of 51.5 square miles of trails and
outdoor space — an area roughly four times larger complex — just minutes
gress who may be asked to vote on the agreement
By Ana Swanson
key to preventing this kind of violence is to literally
political year distinguished by voter hunger for "outsid-
well as members of Con-
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Public violenceis contagious, doctor says
By Beau Eastes
than the lower Phil's Trail
agreement — the ultimate in insider deals — is shaping up to be a tough sell. For presidential candidates in both parties, as
in
• The Deschutes Land Trustthinks forestland owner will look to sell
WASHINGTON — In a ers," the new Pacific trade
2011.
SHOOTINGS
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of the general obligation bond, so we' re very excited to have it back open," said Ryan Oster, the city's project manager. Voters approved the $30 million bond measure in May
from Bend. Since 2006, the land trust had worked with the forest's previous owner, Fidelity National Financial,
Andy Tullis/The Bulletin
Deschutes Land Trust Executive Director Brad Chalfant talks about the forested land surrounding him, which the trust is interested in purchasing.
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public health approaches that are widely used to fight
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disease.
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This model is being used to prevent community vi-
Proposed Skyline Forest
olence in 15 U.S. cities and
seven countries, the group says. But Slutkin believes it has a much bigger role to play in helping the U.S. address the tragedy of mass
'Idfi shavebured ear a recently
6434 acres-
with Whitefish Cascade,
which has a local office in Sunriver, setting itself up
to terms with that, we think it's very likely
they' ll look to get out of these properties." — Brad Chalfant, executive director for the Deschutes Land Trust
He went on to found a violence with the same
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"Frankly, the drying of our forests make these relatively low-production and low-value forests from a commercial perspective.As (Whitefish Cascade) comes
world. group called Cure Violence, which advocates treating
Following up onCentral Oregon stories that havebeenout of the headlines. Email ideas to
coming close to purchasing as a potential buyer if — or the property, which could when — the land comes up conceivably connect Bend for sale in the future. and Sisters via singletrack. Whitefish Cascade offiOver the past eight cials did not return calls for months, though, the land comment. trust has been in contact See Skyline Forest/A5
infectious disease spread in communities around the
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shootings, like the one that
2014
occurred in Roseburg. The Washington Post
6,908 acres.
spoke with Slutkin, who now teaches at the Univer-
sity of Illinois at Chicago
R servoi
School of Public Health,
about why he sees violence in America as an unrecognized epidemic. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. SeeViolence/A4
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• Clinton, slamming NRA,calls for tougher gun control,A4 • The latest from Roseburg,B3
conclusion if negotiators
could reach a deal, now appears likely to require an all-out effort from President Barack Obama. If he falls short, a final vote could be put off until
'Workers' or slaves? Textbook maker backtracks
after the November 2016 election.
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By Yanan Wang The Washington Post
Mothers of teenagers are used to getting frustrating text
messages, but the one that
Correction The NewYork Times Crossword puzzle andsolution that appeared Friday, Oct. 2, on Page E4were incorrect. The corrected puzzle andsolution, No. 0828, are featured in today's Classified section, on Page E5. The Bulletin regrets the error.
Roni Dean-Burren received
from her 15-year-old son last week wasn't about alcohol, dating or money for the
movies. It was about history. Her son, Coby, had sent her
a photo of a colorful page in his ninth-grade McGraw-Hill World Geography textbook.
and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the
southern United States to work on agricultural plantations."
The image alarmed Dean-Burren, who was an English teacher for 11 years at the
The motive behind the text-
book's choice of words seemed clear.
Now a doctoral candidate in
"This is erasure," Dean-Burren said in an interview with The Washington Post.
Immigration," a speech bub-
the University of Houston's Language Arts program, she
ble pointing to the continent
subsequenttext.
has spent much of her life
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thinking about the power and dangers of nuanced language.
Pearland, Texas, public high school that her son attends.
"We was real hard workers wasn't we," Coby retorted in a
In a section titled "Patterns of
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