Bulletin Daily Paper 10-07-15

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Minimum wage hike: a challenge for rural economies?

REED MARKET ROAD REOPENING

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Plus: C.J. McCollumTheBlazers' next star?C1

By Beau Eastes The Bulletin

Joseph Barker, owner

SupremeCourt —one

of Ochoco Brewing in Prineville, cringes at the

D.C. institution cracks down on paid line-sitting.A4

thought of an increase in

Oregon's minimum wage, which at $9.25 an hour is

Odamacare —will the u.s.

the second-highest in the

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follow California and cover immigrants here illegally?A6

country. "I can't see any good coming out of it," Barker

said Tuesday about a pair of ballot measures filed

StumptownCoffee —Independent brand purchased by Peet's Coffee andTea.C6

for next year's November V

election. One, which is supported by Oregon House Speaker

And a Wed exclusive-

Tina Kotek, D-Portland,

Racehelped shapedthe politics of U.S. Senatecandidate Kamala Harris of California. benclbulletin.curn/extrns

would raise the state's minimum wageto$13.50over a two-year period. The other would jump Oregon's hourly minimum wage to $15 over a three-year time span. The $13.50-an-hour proposal, created by a union-led coalition called

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Raise the Wage, is intended

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to put pressure on Oregon lawmakers during the 2016

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legislative session to raise

sandwich: a surprising history

Project Manager Brent Pierson carries away the road closed sign blocking the intersection of SE American Lane and Reed Market Road to open the stretch of road to traffic Tuesday afternoon in Bend, marking the completion of an $18.3 million project.

By Sarah Kaplan

The station sold gas for $1.99 per gallon from 4-7 p.m. to celebrate the big day.

the minimum wage. SeeWage/A5

Photos by Joe Kline/The Bulletin

Below, TomMealy, owner of the Expressway Corner Market & Deli at SE 15th Street and ReedMarket Road, pumpsgas for patrons. The Washington Post

That sound you heard at

11 a.m. Tuesday — those exultant cheers swiftly muffled by mouthfuls of English muffin, bacon, egg and cheese? They

By Kailey Fisicaro

road construction began,

The Bulletin

right in a row. Even with their regular customers rolling through, the loss of drive-by traffic really hurt the business. The Healys are ready for a

year wait, residents and business owners' patience was

After more than a two-

Cops help colleagues in distress By Christine Byers St. Louis Post-Dispatch

are the victory cries of

rewarded'IItesday afternoon

thousands of McDonald's breakfast lovers, who for

when traffic began flowing in both directions again at

the first time in 43 years

Reed Market Road in south-

Others, like Ray Mar-

will (officially) be able to consume Egg McMuffins

east Bend. The $18.3 million project

couiller, 89, and Ted Wilcox,

Straughter. A call for all available units boomed

at whatever time of day

included the addition of a

they deem fit.

second lane eastbound east of American Lane bridge,

75, are just looking forward to having a set path home again. The men have been next-door neighbors at Newberry Drive just off of SE

But, as we celebrate the triumph of breakfast over

revival.

a center turn lane and

theoppressiveforcesof socially mandated meal-

6-foot-wide bike lanes. The BNSF rail crossing also was

times, it's worth remem-

rebuilt and the American

bering that McDonald's is

Lane bridge was moved and reconstructed. Sidewalks and landscaping, which are part of the project as well, still need

business to tie the last few balloons acknowledging the big day. At 4 p.m., just down the street and west of the rail-

they lost business but regular

some work, but the official

road crossing, a handful of people, mostly officials, did a

neither the only or the first fast-food provider to dish

up the portable, delectable combination of egg, meat, cheese and bread. SeeSandwich/A5

Corrections In a story headlined "Reed Market opens —early," which appeared Tuesday,Oct. 6, on Page A1,the number of travel lanes in both directions was incorrect. ReedMarket Road will only have two lanesfor eastbound traffic between American Laneand SE15th Street.

In a story headlined "Hopes for Skyline Forest project aran't dead yet," which appeared Tuesday, Oct. 6, onPageA1, the price for nearly 200,000 acres of timberland purchased by Whitefish CascadeForest Resources was incorrect. Fidelity National Financial, the

company that sold the land, reported it received atotal cash distribution of $63 million for 197,000 acres of property in Deschutes andKlamath counties. The Bulletin regrets the errors.

both directions.

Healy's son, Daniel Healy, was one of the people to help cut the ribbon.

"We' re very relieved," Daniel Healy said, adding, that

from SE Third Street to 27th Street was at 4p.m. 7ttesday. At 20 minutes till, Tom

ceremonious ribbon cutting. But the real monumental

customers mostly remained. "We kept a loyal following." The Healy family has owned the market and gas

moment came when the bar-

station for 20 years, but just

Healy, co-owner of Express-

rierswere removed justafter

way Corner Market & Deli at SE 15th Street and Reed

4 p.m. and drivers began traveling the road again — in

before Daniel took over daily operations a few years ago,

opening of the stretch of road

the recession hit, and then

test to Joan "Joann" Glover

have a clear route to get to

across the St. Louis police sergeant's radio, but she didn't flinch. Questioned later about why she didn' t respond, she exploded in anger, then cried. Three days before, at a restaurant where she worked a security job, Glover Straughter had fatally shot a man who raised a gun at her after ignoring her commands to drop it. She went through the

Fred Meyer again, he said.

motions of department pro-

Reed Market for more than Market Road, headed out to the corner in front of his

ST. LOUIS — Filling out

a traffic crash report felt as challenging as a chemistry

two decades. As different sectionsoftheroadw ere worked on over the past cou-

ple years, Marcouiller and Wilcox had to continually update their ways home from

running errands by car. Marcouiller is glad he' ll 'Whoa, let's get out of the

way!" Wilcox said jokingly just as the ribbon was cut, anticipating a rush of traffic. SeeMoving/A5

tocol: completing a psychological evaluation, making a statement to investigators

and returning to work three days later.

SeeCops/A4

Colleges that honoredCosbyface tough question By Sydney Ember and Colin Moynihan

New Yorh Times News Service

Every spring for decades, a similar scene played out at colleges across the United States: Students picked up

their degrees — and Bill Cosby stood alongside them.

Schools wanted Cosby, the

popular, education-embracing comedian, to give their commencement address, and he

routinely showed up, often in a school sweatshirt, offering high-fives, hugs and homespun advice. In exchange, universities and colleges gave

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him honorary degrees in categories like education, public service and law. Few people in U.S. history have been recognized by universities as often as Cosby, whose publicist once

honorary degrees. The New oredfall sfrom grace. York Times, in a quick search, Some are sticking with found nearly 60. longstanding policies that But now, as dozens of wom-

estimated that the entertainer

en have come forward to accuse Cosby of sexual assault, colleges are confronting the question of what to do when

had collected more than 100

someone who has been hon-

The Bulletin

INDEX Business Calendar Classified

C5-6 Comics/Pu zzles E3-4 Horoscope D 6 Outdoors 82 Crosswords E 4 L o cal/State B1 6 S I E1-8 Dear Abby D6 Ob ituaries B5 N'/Movies

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An Independent Newspaper

vol. 113, No. 280, 32 pages, 5 sections

prohibit the revocation of

such awards. Some are still debating what to do. And

some are rescinding Cosby's degrees. SeeCosby/A4

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