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Marijuana market — Preliminary rules from thestate include separatestores for medical and recreational sales.B3
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• Local numbers worse JeffersonandCrookCounty schools struggle with adsenteestudents students in Central Oregon's largest cities were more likely to be chronically absent than the state than the stateaverage Most average, andJefferson and Crook County schools were eachabout10 percentage points higher. Some of the By Abby Spegman The Bulletin
Central Oregon students
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are more likely to be chronically absent than their peers
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defines chronically absent students as those missing 10 per-
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EDITOR'SCHOICE
Push for smart guns could trigger a new furor
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this week exploring starting a company to build another smart gun, perhaps with one of his previous competitors.
trees — because of their telltale red needles.
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leader for the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District of the De-
tors gathered last week in downtown Benghazi, Libya,
schutes National Forest, said Thursday. Hoping to curb the outbreak beforeitleavesw idespread dead and potentially dangerous trees standing in campgrounds around Newberry
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out lodgepole stands there. The
participants said, the crowd
caldera is home to Paulina and East lakes. The "Shield Insect
only grew larger. Navigating a war zone is no longer anything new for the hundreds of thousands of residents remaining in Benghazi. SeeChaos/A4
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week that agencies are eager to test and perhaps adopt smart guns. Meanwhile, lawmakers in New Jersey are considering doing away with a
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a new beetle outbreak," Amy Tinderholt, recreation team
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that will assure Second Amendment advocatesand
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Much of the questioning rehashed issues that were settled in other hearings and official inquiries about Benghazi over the past several years. Clinton repeated her categorical denials of the long-debunked charge that she told the De-
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and after the terrorist attacks there in September 2012.
and potentially dangerous
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what happened, and why, in Benghazi before, during
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Inquiry: Government overpays inhealth law errors
in the United States. Gun
industry groups, particularly the National Rifle Association, fiercely oppose the law. An announcement
By Robert Pear
Affordable Care Act that had
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led the government to pay for duplicate coverage for some people and an excessive share of costs forothers.
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators from the
about the mandate is expected Monday.
Government Accountability
"I still want people to understand that there is
had discovered many errors in people were receiving subsieligibility decisions under the dies for private insurance at
Office said Thursday that they
The investigators said some
the same time they were enrolled in Medicaid. In other cases, the investi-
gators said, the government is probably overpaying because it cannot always distinguish between newly eligible beneficiaries under the Affordable
Care Act and those eligible under the old rules. The federal government is paying 100 percent of the cost of Medicaid for newly eligible people, but for others it should pay a
much smaller share,averaging 57 percent of the costs.
The discrepancy is potentially significant, the investigatorssaid,because the federal
government expects to spend more than $400 billion on newly eligible Medicaid beneficiaries from 2014 to 2023. SeeErrors/A5
a huge potential for this technology," Mauch said in an interview at a Virginia
hotel where he was holding meetings with possible partners. "The technology was never in question."
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