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By ScottHammers e The Bulletin
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A proposal to build 208 apartment units just east of Pilot Butte State Scenic Viewpoint has drawn opposition from a group of residents who fear the apartments will degrade recreational
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By Tyler Leeds The Bulletin
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The Bend City Council has a plan to squeeze $1.8 million out of reserves to fund additional street
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maintenance, but the new
money isn’t likely to patch a rift between councilors behind and against a pro› posed gas tax. The city has $80 million worth ofdeferred street
m aintenance, and aspotholes deepen and asphalt
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Medical treatments, based on your DNA By Sheena Faherty
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A Seattle company, Evergreen Housing Development, is seeking to build the apartments on a
The Philadel phia Inquirer
Imagine if you could carry a credit card-size
record of all the 3 billion
nearly 5-acre property just north of U.S. Highway 20 and bounded by NE Arnett Way to the east. The 205 apartments, 143 of which would be one-bedroom or studio units, would be contained in
Roats, however, have been
more skeptical, pushing the council to dig up more mon› ey from the city’s growing budget before deciding a new tax is needed.
A’ s, T’s, C’s and G’s that
make up the alphabet soup of your genome. A simple swipe of the card could in› form your physician right away if a drug being con› sidered will help you or even hurt you. This is the kind of
promise behind President Barack Obama’s $215 mil› lion initiative to develop
personalized medicine. "We’ ve arrived at the
point where this could happen, and is going to happen," Francis Collins, director of the National In› stitutes of Health, said at a
recent biotechnology con› ference in Philadelphia. A newly published study by researchers at the Uni› versity of Pennsylvania is another step on the path.
The study, which ap› pears this month in the journal Cell, came from a curious case regarding a class of anti-diabetes drugs known as thiazo› lidinediones. TZDs are highly effective in some
an office and other resident amenities. The proposal is currently undergoing site plan review by the city’s community development department, a processthatprecedestheis-
suance of building permits. Opponents of the project, led by former park hosts Bill and Carol Smith,havebeen collecting signatures on a
Nearby residents and friends of the park have known for
years that the property might be developed as apartments,
he said, but many were taken by surprise at the scale of the proposal. "When we were first con›
tacted, we had heard several times over the last 10 years
petition asking the city to re›
about apartments going in
open the public process and reconsider the development application.
over there," Bill Smith said. "They’d come to us, and then
Bill Smith said he and his
wife put the petition together after hearing from butte
visitors concerned about the proposed development.
nothing happened we thought it was one of those things." Bill Smith said he thinks
most people who’ve signed his petition would be willing
to accept a smaller-scale
The Smiths’ petition, which
apartment development on the property, similar to the
as of Thursday afternoon had been signed by almost complex just north of the 270 people, suggests Pilot area across NE Linnea Drive. Butte is unable to accommo› However, he expects some date additional visitors, and opponents may be ready to suggests the park deserves fight any development on the special consideration by the site. planning department due to "Now, because you’ ve got its status as a local landmark. people worked up, you’ re The petition takes issue with going to have some people the developers’ request for who say absolutely no way," a variance that would allow he said. them to build 7izz feet taller Bill Smith said his prefer› than the 45-foot height limit ence would be for the city to in the area, and suggests tall reopen the record and allow buildings would mar historic the public to offer input on
the proposed development.
views of the butte. See Butte /A4
even cause serious side
effects. The Penn team had a hunch that the variation
In flag's demise, akeyConfederate descendant By Michael E. Miller
ed to incite a race war. Instead,
made passionate pleas for and
tions and amendments, lots
The Washington Post
he incited a fierce debate over racism and the Confederate flag.
against keeping the Confed› erate flag flying in front of the state capitol. Over 13 excruciating hours,
of them, designed to thwart
On June 17, a church in Charlestonbecame the scene of horrific slaughter. White
Less than a month later,
could have something to do with small differences in the regions of the ge› nome that control whether
were black.
nuclear receptor attaches to DNA. See DNA/A4
By Sabrina Tavernise New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON
The
Food and Drug Admin› istration delayed by a year the deadline for the nation’s chain restaurants,
pizza parlors and movie theaters to post calorie counts on their menus, in lic health.
supremacist Dylann Roof that debate came full circle. In allegedlymurdered abeloved a remarkable scene, reminis› pastor and eight of his parish› cent of furious 19th-century ioners simply because they slavery debates in Congress,
a gene will be switched off or on, much like a light switch. These areas, called regulatory regions, work by lighting up genes when a molecule known as a
Calorie count rule is delayed
what consumer advocates said was a setback for pub›
people. But for 20 percent
to 30 percent of patients, they are useless and can
See Roads /A4
two four-story buildings and one three-story building, with another one-story building containing
members of the South Caroli›
Roof, his friends said, want› na House of Representatives
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the entire country watched
as the ghosts of the Civil War seemed tostironcemore. There was soul-searching and breast-beating, shouting and tears, insultsand accusa-
a vote. And for a moment, it
useless as most Americans
seemed asiftheConfederate flag just might keep flying
and not in a restaurant, where they would see a
after all. But then Jenny Horne decided that she had had
menu. Bills in the House
enough.
delayed the rule. See Calorie /A4
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Pressure had been grow› ing to delay the rule, which was proposed in Novem› ber. Food companies in particular the pizza indus› try had campaigned against it, saying it was onerous and in many cases
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