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• Nearly 200 people turn out to debate a possible moratorium on recreational pot salesequipment. Speakers in support of an By Ted Shorack
Deschutes County hearings Wednesday. A move that could potenCounty commissioners are tially put the brakes on the considering an ordinance that local marijuana industry drew would temporarily prohibit nearly 200 people to a pair of marijuana businesses in uninThe Bulletin
corporated areas, an approach afforded local governments by recently signed legislation. Opponents of the ordinance — including many local marijuana business owners — said
on Wednesday that the county
ordinance mentioned public
could potentially cause the black market to thrive in the
safety concerns and described
areaand hamper thelegal and regulated industry, which has invested in land and
dential areas affecting their communities. SeePot/A5
marijuana growing in resi-
Brookswoodupdate
— The new roundabout on Brookswood Boulevard is taking shape, andthose who live nearby are counting down the days until it's done.B1
To inhale ornot to inhale
— Did Shakespeare's writing contain references todrugs?A3
And a WedexclusiveLatinosnowdominate Watts, California, but somefeel African-Americans still hold power. bendbulletin.curn/extrns
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SPEED
nosim ee an e By Taylor W. Anderson and Dylan J. DarlingsThe Bulletin
SALEM — Talked about by truckers and Oregon for years, higher speed limits are coming to rural highways such as U.S. Highway 97 in
EDITOR'5CHOICE
Ajihadi honeymoon that didn't pan out
The dasicrule law vs. speed limits
student with a police officer dad and dreams of becom-
ing a doctor. Muhammad Dakhlalla
was handsome and thoughtful. He was about to start
a graduate program in psychology. Growing up in
Russ Boyett, a truck driver from Spokane, Washington, stands near his truck outside Gordy's
small-town Mississippi, the
Truck Stop in La Pine onWednesday. Boyett welcomes higher speed limits on Oregon's rural
son of Palestinian immigrants chosetogobytheless
highways. Cars on highways outside cities will be allowed to drive 65 mph nnd trucks 60 mph. "I think it is a long time due because everyone drives that kind of speed anyway," he says.
Jarod Opp erman/The Bulletin
bright future. Secretly, however, the couple wasn't planning on spending that future in Mississippi or even America,
Cars cruising on highways outside cities will soon legally be allowed to drive 65 mph and trucks at 60 mph, speeds that lawmakers and police acknowledge drivers are already traveling despite
but rather under the rule of the Islamic State.
lower limits. "I think it is a long time
Even as they attended class and acted normally in
public, Young and Dakhlalla spent hours each day on the Internet, dandestinely plan-
ning their move to the aspiring Islamist caliphate, federal prosecutors claim. They plotted to pass off a trip to Turkey as their honeymoon. From there, they would slip
acrosstheborderinto Syria
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — This
has become the summer of the political outsider, as
nie Sanders are fueled by people's anger with the sta-
e
Jaelyn Young was pretty and smart — an honor
a beautiful couple with a
By Philip Rucker
of Donald Trump and Ber-
j 'I'
The Washington Post
friends, they seemed like
Anger fuels support for outsider candidates a cast of interlopers upend and dominate the presidential nominating process in both parties. The surging candidacies
By Michael E. Miller
threatening name of Mo. To their families and
SPEED LIMIT
Central Oregon starting March next year.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
due because everyone
way 97 every other week. Drivers like Boyett who
travel rural Oregon highways will note a visible change in speed limits starting March 1, and another subtle change that has implications for police, judges and drivers. While hiking speed limits might seem like a
ODOT. "It doesn't quite work that way."
The signs ODOT puts up next year will don the words "speed limit." Makes
sense, right? It's not that simple in Oregon, where there's a difference between
a sign that says "Speed 55" and one posted that says "Speed Limit 55."
monotonous task to some, Speed limit signs on U.S. anyway," said Russ Boyett, the Oregon Department of Highway 97 and 20 outside of Spokane, Washington. Transportation will spend Bend and others across Boyett, a long-haul the next seven months deal- rural Oregon changed in trucker bringing frozen ing with complexities that House Bill 3402 will mark food to California and fresh make up Oregon speed law. a change in highway policy "You think you can just produce back, stopped that went largely unnoticed Wednesday morning to fuel go out and put a sticker on as the bill to raise the limits up at Gordy's Truck Stop in the old signs," said Doug passed in the waning days La Pine. Driving for Peirone Bish, traffic engineering of the Legislature. Produce Co., he's on Highservices unit manager with SeeSpeed limit/A5 drives that kind of speed
The law that required the OregonDepartment of Transportation to increase the speed limits onvast stretches of rural highwaysandinterstates also brings asubtle but key changeto Oregon highway law.Whenthe new signs allowing higherspeeds go up next March, they' say ll "Speed Limit" followed by the miles perhour drivers can travel. Signs currently sayonly "Speed," whichadvertises a basic rule speeddrivers must follow onmanyOregon highways. Basic rule is aposted speed that allows drivers to adjust based onconditions. While many drivers —andeven some in lawenforcementbelieve that meansdrivers can speed upwhenthe weather and other conditions aregood, the law actually only requires drivers to slowdownwhen conditions arepoor. That means drivers traveling the speed limit whenroads areicy can actually beticketed under basic rule, until ODOT replaces the speed limit signs, which will then beuniform speedlimits. But the basic rulewill still be in effect elsewhere.
Related
tus quo and
cravmg of • Update on authenticiClinton email ty in polititroubles,A6 cal leaders. Across the ideological spectrum, candidates are gaining traction by separating themselves from the political
and economic system that many everyday Americans see as rigged against them. "There are a lot of voters who are exceptionally frustrated with traditional
politics and politicians and who quite simply feel failed by the system," said pollster Geoff Garin, who advises Priorities USA Ac-
tion, a super PAC supporting Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton. "A lot of this anger crosses party lines in the sense that it is directed at
what people see as a concentration of wealth and power that leaves them
holding the short end of the stick." Consider recent devel-
opments in the Republican race. Rick Perry was governor of Texas for 14 years and had an enviable jobs record to boot, but his presidential campaign is running on fumes. SeeOutsiders/A6
and enter the Islamic State
they so longed to see. SeeHoneymoon/A5
Correction In a story headlined "In recent killings, a common factor," which appeared Sunday, Aug. 9, onpageA1,the locatio nonShaneMunoz's body where hewasshot was incorrectly identified. Hewas
Economicsof child care slamsyounger parents By Michelle Jnmrisko Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON — It's not
the cost of diapers or even future college tuition that's rattling Amber Sparks. "We basically had to remake
our entire budget around day care," said Sparks, 37, whose 3-month-old daughter began attending child care this month when Sparks returned to work for a labor union in Washington. "We' ll eat out a lot less, and
have a lot less discretionary spending. We live in an apartment building, and I don't think
there's any way we' d beable to afford a home and pay for day care and pay for student loans." With the job market improv-
ing and the millennial generation born after 1980 reaching its primechild-bearingyears,demand for day care will probably continue to outstrip supply, driving costs up faster than overall
inflation. That could have
wide-ranging repercussions, induding limiting consumers' ability to spend on other goods and services and sometimes preventing some parents from joining the workforce. SeeChild care/A4
shot in the back.
It was also alleged but never proven that Munozbroke into Kevin Perry's home onAwbrey Butte.
The Bulletin regrets the errors.
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