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OREGON STATEPOLICE FORENSIC PROBE
review cases
mi ae a i ons, Possibility ofmishandledevidenceputssome600areacasesin question By Claire Withycombe
at the state police crime lab in
trict Attorney Steve Leriche
The Bulletin
could not be reached for com› ment Thursday, and an Oregon
torney’s offices in light of alle›
Bend mishandled evidence. Eighty cases in Crook Coun› ty examined by a single foren› sic scientist are undergoing review, as are 502 in Deschutes
gations that a forensic analyst
County. Jefferson County Dis›
Crook County District At›
Nearly 600 criminal cases in Central Oregon are under the scrutiny of local district at›
State Police spokesman could
not provide an estimate of the total cases potentially affected.
torney Daina Vitolins said her office had received a list of a
"wide variety" of drug cases possibly compromised by the
scientist Nika Larsen. Larsen could not be reached for comment via her state
email address Thursday and
investigation, and that she is
an OSP spokesman, Lt. Bill
notifying defense attorneys w ho represented defendantsin which evidence was analyzed by Oregon State Police forensic
Fugate, could not confirm Larsen was the subject of the investigation.
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of the year, explained
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By Scott Hammers eThe Bulletin
Nearly a year after construction began, the Bend Whitewater Park will be open after 5 tonight. Opening day comes during a respite from fall weather, with high temperatures forecast in the
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mid-70s Saturday and near 80 degrees Sunday.
Sometime this year, the
Federal Reserve is likely Floaters will now be able to
to do something it hasn’ t
stay in the water and use the safe passage channel rather
done in nearly 10 years: raise interest rates. The decision sounds wonky but is momentous.
than portage around the Col›
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orado Avenue bridge, while kayakers, surfers and stand›
Casinostry to adapt in new ageof gambling By Elaine S. Povich Stateline.org
WASHINGTON
Ca›
sinos across the nation are suffering from a generation gap, especially at the slot machines, as young people seek more exotic electronic games like the ones they can play on smartphones from anywhere.
their skills in the whitewater channel. Will Blount, acting presi› dent of the Bend Paddle Trail
Alliance, said it’s a great day for whitewater enthusiasts,
but not its
"like having Phil’s Trail in your backyard."
"First and foremost, we are
super excited to see what we think is a really amazing ben› efit for our community come
the lifeblood
of the economy, so any change couldaffectnot
to fruition," Blount said. "It’ s been a vision our board has
just the price to borrow but also the stock market,
had now for 10 years, and to possibly know that it’s going to be opening ... is above and beyond words at this point."
the jobs market and the value of the dollar.
ance will be celebrating the completion of the project Saturday with the year’s final
Ryan Richard explains the different sections of controls and how to use them inside the Bend Whitewater Perk’s control vault Tuesday. Richard, the Bend Park & Recreation District’s newly
know:
hired wave shaper, has spent much ofthe last few weeks creating a spreadsheet detailing what
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settings create what kind of waves under what conditions.
Pickin’ ll’t. Paddlin’ concert at
Tumalo Creek Kayak and Ca›
Bend’snewwhitewater park
noe, just upstieam from the
Bend Park & Recreation District has finished rebuilding the Colorado Avenue dam to reconfigure it into three newchannels one to allow safe passage for floating, one for whitewater recreation and another area reserved for natural habitat.
lion to contribute to the $9.7
particularly from lucrative slots, to help balance their budgets and fund new priorities. State revenue from taxing gambling from casinos, lotteries and rac› ing has been largely flat
million cost of construction. JanTaylor,community
ler Institute, which studies
tax revenue. Casino tax revenue in 16 states studied by the
institute increased just 0.1 percent in fiscal 2015 com› pared to the year before
Here’s what you need to
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The Paddle Trail Alli›
park district, said the Paddle Trail Alliance has been a
well Bend Park in 2003
great partner throughout the gave would-be floaters project, and the whitewater a serviceable location to park is arguably the most col› get into the water, but the laborative project the district original Colorado Avenue has ever been involved in. dam, built to create a For anyone who’s seen the slow-moving pool where long line of inner tubes and logs bound for Bend’s tim› air mattresses strung out ber mills could be floated, above the takeout point at emerged as a hazard once Colorado Avenue on a sum› floaters began flocking to mer day, it maybe hard to the river. imagine it’s only been about See Whitewater /A5
What exactly is the Fed? The Fed is thena› tion’s central bank.
It does a lot of things, all with the goal of mak› ingsuretheeconomy is healthy: growing at a de› cent pace, about 3 percent per year, with jobs for everyone who wants one, with incomes rising and
New pedestrianbridge
a decade since floating the
river became common› place in Bend. The opening of Fare›
relations manager with the
and credit
decision, c a r ds, will surprises m ost likely economists, also go up. A4 Lending is
revenuefrom casinotaxes,
when adjusted for inflation, according to the Rockefel›
of loans,
Fed’s including hesitance, mortgages
forcasino operators,but for the 23 states that rely on
since the Great Recession,
all sorts
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See time-lapse videoof the park’s construction whitewater park. Through from October 2014 toAugust the concerts and other efforts, 2015:bendbulletin.cern the group has raised $1.1 mil›
That’s a problem not just
When the Federal Re› serve does move to raise interest rates, the cost of
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up paddleboarders can test
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the cost of goods and ser›
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vices stable. The Fed has a few ways
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of trying to achieve that
balance, but arguably the most important is setting
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rowing across the country. SeeRates/A4
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when adjusted for inflation. Of those states, Mary›
land reported the largest growth, 17.1 percent. But that largely resulted from the opening of a new casi› no in Baltimore. Excluding Maryland, tax revenue declined 1.2 percent in the
remaining 15 states. That’s prompting the ca› sino industry and the states
to scramble for new ways to satisfy a younger gener› ation of casino gamblers to keep their revenue up, including mimicking the types of games millennials play on the Internet, such as online poker and fanta›
sy sports. SeeGambling/A4
The forgotten migrants Los Angeles Times
By Laura King
fear the gates of Germany will ultimately be closed to them.
BERLIN They’ ve made it all the way to what most
other than Syria
asylum seekers consider the promised land but many
make up
ing weeks of summer.
a substantial share of the ex› traordinary crush of human›
But many are well aware that in the eyes of the author›
including
ity aiming to reach Germany
those from Afghanistan, Pa› kistan, Eritrea, Somalia and
and other wealthy northern European havens in the wan›
ities, their cases are more ambiguous than those fleeing Syria’s civil war, now in its
Migrants from countries
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thosenot from Syria
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fifth year. And in overflowing camps and refugee centers, knowledge of this differing status can breed bewilderment and resentment.
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