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Sleepy after thefeast?-
Senators push for grant extension
Don't blame the turkey and its tryptophan — the drowsiness is likely from overeating.A3
Holiday cheer —Asign of the recovering economy? Offices are backto spending more on decor.C6
By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin
WASHINGTON — A bi-
Fergtteen —protesters return for a seconddaybut are less destructive.A2
partisan group of senators, including Oregon Democrats Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, urged Senate leaders to bring legislation
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to the floor that would reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund
Ensuring cybersecurity — for the computer in your car. bendbunetin.cam/extras
before the lame duck session ends. In a letter dated Nov. 24,
the senators asked Majority Leader Harry Reid,
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D-Nev., and Minority Lead-
er Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to work to find a perma-
BlackFriday might not
be bestday for topdeals By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz
nent funding solution for
the 50-year-old program before the 113th Congress Andy Tullis/The Bulletin
Rainfall formed a pond Tuesday afternoon in front of the West Village Lodge at Mt. Bachelor.
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Additional lifts won't be open today and Bachelor is closed on Thanksgiving
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — Those
who would rather choke on a wishbone than forgo pecanpie for Thanksgiving Day sales or venture into the Black Friday madness
mightbe happy to hear that the weekend's deals maybe just the tip of the iceberg. "The 2014holiday season is shaping up to be the most promotional holiday season on record," said Steve Barr, retail and consumer leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Though the planned Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday deals offer steep discounts on select
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ski area west of Bend to put off plans to open more lifts today and scrap plans entirely to be open Thanksgiving Day. "We are actually going to be closed on Thursday,"
Calorie counts soon mandatory for chains
Drew Jackson, Mt. Bachelor spokesman, said 'Ittes-
day. "Completely closed." The rainfall at the ski
area softened the snow to the point that Sno-Cat
necessary preparations for today's planned opening of more lifts and for Thanks-
giving Day operations.
By Anna Edney Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON — The Under drizzling skies, Lizzie Marlowe, 3, from left, skis beside her dad, Brian Marlowe, 36, as he gives his other daughter, Nora Marlowe, 6, all of Bend, a push as the three ski toward the West Village Lodge from the Sunshine Accelerator Chairlift at Mt. Bachelor on Tuesday afternoon.
"We just don't feel like
the conditions are going to allow us to offer something that is going to be exciting and fun for people," Jackson said. Mt. Bachelor started
limited operations Monday — with one lift, the Sunshine
Center will be closed today and Thanksgiving.
Accelerator, and a terrain
Jackson said the tentative
park open — as well as the Nordic Center. The Nordic
plan is to open more lifts Friday morning, if the weather
changes from warm and wet. "We are really optimistic for improved conditions
starting Friday," he said. See Bachelor/A4
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Food and Drug Administration, seeking to fight obesity, issuedmenu-labeling rules that force restaurants, movie theaters and grocery stores to add calorie information to the food they sell. The regulations catch
the rest of the countryup to what cities such as New
York have already done. Pizzerias, whose a la carte options makeprecise nutri-
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and to develop and support state and local parks. Legislation authorizing the various projects will expire
and competition, and the
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and Civil War battlefields,
Rain Tuesday at Mt. Bachelor prompted the
were not able to make the
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tional parks, forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness
fund to distribute money to
son in response to demand
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nental shelf to conserve na-
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items, retailers adjust prices constantlythrough the sea-
m ore to come, Barr said. See Deals /A4
gas and oil receipts from drilling on the outer conti-
By Dylan J. Darling
groomers could not head uphill without making a mess of the slopes. Without the groomers, workers
frequent sales happening since the beginning of November suggest there's
adjourns in December. The Land and Water
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Changingweather mayaffect holidaytravel By Dylan J. Darling
home Saturday or Sunday,
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expect icy conditions in the mountains and light accu-
Travelers headed over
passes in the Cascades for Thanksgiving may see clear roads today but likely will encounter rain Thursday and Friday, then wintry weather Saturday and
Sunday. "If people are coming
A warm front Tuesday
Cold and winter driving conditions are likely this weekend, so anyone driving over the passes for the holiday should be ready for the
with howto implement the
weather, said Rob Brooks, a
from their salad or hot bars,
w eather serviceforecasterin Pendleton. See Travel /A4
though deli items, induding slicedmeats and cheeses,
Macke, a weather technician with the National Weather
the high at the Bend Mu-
show snow likely in Bend, Redmond and elsewhere
been preparing for the changes, other industries were grappling1ttesday
But travelers should not let the mild days fool them.
heated up the region, with
Weather Serviceforecasts
While some companies such as McDonald's had
around Central Oregon on Saturday night and Sunday.
mulations of snow," Gerald Service in Portland, said Tuesday.
were included in the final rules, as was alcohol.
nicipal Airport hitting 54 degrees, according to the weather service. Highs above 50 are also predicted for today and Thanksgiving Day.
newrules. Grocery stores, for example, will have to
provide calorie information on restaurant-style food
can be label-free.
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