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Minimum wage hike: a challenge for rural economies?
REED MARKET ROAD REOPENING
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By Beau Eastes The Bulletin
Joseph Barker, owner
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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
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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
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election. One, which is supported by Oregon House Speaker
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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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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-
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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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