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LOCAL CARE

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Strikeout Elk —Austln Guzzonisfanningopponents at quite a clip.C1

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Sen. Jeff MerkleyandDr. Monica Wehdy,dythe nlimders

to expand

• Merkley (D) • Wehby (R)

FIVE THIRTYEIGHT.COM R A S M USSEN REPORTS

By Tare Bannow

servative writer George Will

PRIMARYELECTIONWIN

made thecase forDr.M onica Wehby, the pediatric neurosurgeon and Republican who is vying for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

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Predicted chances of winning as of June 8 ~ 95%

By Lily Raff McCaulou The Bulletin

PORTLAND — In his

Pius: Little LeagueBend team heading to regionals with big dreams.C1

Dng shnt —Investigation is on over aguard dog found dead at a local pasture.B1

Greetings;hereare some garmS —A handshaketransfers 20times moregerms than a fist bump, astudy finds. A3

HomemadepowerRecipes for energy bars better than store-bought.D3

nationally syndicated newspaper column Sunday, con-

It was just the latest national

spotlight for Wehby, a political newcomer who continues to dominate election headlines

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99%

Poll in May of 750 likely voters ~

52.9%

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over incumbent Jeff Merkley. Merkley, a Democrat, was

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elected to the Senate in 2008,

when widespread anti-Republican sentiment drove President Barack Obama into office and

knocked two-time Republican Sen. Gordon Smith out of

Washington, D.C.

The pendulum could swing this fall. Obama's approval rating is low, and many analysts predict Republicans will pick up the six seats needed to take control of the Senate.

Wehby has a compelling sto-

blogs when it was released this spring, the mother of a former with acatchyslogan: "Keepyour patient wept as she recounted doctor. Change your Senator." how Wehby saved her daughry. She's a first-time candidate In one of her TV ads, which

ter's life.

was hailed on national political

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The Bulletin

Two programs designed to offer affordable health coverage to Central Oregon business owners and their employeeshave met opposite fates: One will be

gone by the end of the year, while the other is expanding its reach. SharedCare, an affordable health plan for Central Oregon's low-income employees and business owners, will no longer be offered in 2015. St. Charles Health System, which has administered the

program since the end of 2011, said it's shutting

Online gamdling — Daily

down the program because it could not bring

fantasy sports sites draw the real world's attention.C4

it into compliance with

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In world news — U.s. says Russia's tested a cruise missile, violating treaty.A2

Affordable Care Act requirements while also keeping it affordable. "The biggest problem was for us to become compliant, we would

have had to raise the premiums to four or

And a Wed exclusiveIn modern-day Kansas, cowboys with cellphones practice the ancient art of the roundup. benrlbunetin.cnmneettrn

five times what we're

charging right now, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of SharedCare," said MaryClair Jor-

gensen, St. Charles' director of health plan

EDITOR'5CHOICE

administration. Meanwhile, the

A positive indicator:

Bend Chamber Association Health Plan is

moving in the opposite direction.

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PickLips

are selling

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By Todd C. Frankel The Washington Post

WATERLOO, Ill. — He'd

been eyeing the truck for weeks, ever since he droppedby the dealership for a free car wash and

drove rightpast thatblack beauty. That truck got in his mind. Jon Rullkoetter

couldn't shake it. The truck was sharp. 'Ibxedo black. Bumpers

painted to match. Darkened tail lamps. The Ford F-150 Fx4 Supercrew, stickered

at $53,900, satpreening

Andy Tullis/The Bulletin

William Mejia of Terrebonne, right, labors with other workers to pull weeds in a flowering field of

with a smile. But Rullkoetter was a

WASHINGTON-

The carrots are being grown to harvest the seeds, and this field will be harvested in late September. According to the Central Oregon Agricultural Research Center of Oregon State University, about 85 percent of the hybrid carrot seed planted in the United States is grown in Jefferson and adjacent counties.

Mastering theart of selling abookby its cover By AlexnndrnAlter

the associate art director at Al-

he recognizedthegame at hand. So hecarefully weighed the cost, whathis payments mightbe, what his wife would say, how his job was going. Maybe he could wait. Or find abetterdeal.Here-

New York Times News Service

miles per gallon to boot. But

he was feelingbetter about his job. Locomotive parts seemed to be moving again. Now, he was backin the showroom. He sat in a man-

ager's office. The door was dosed. Bergman, hopeful, stood just outside.

SeeTrucks/A4

there. Help elect a prime

minister in the world's second most populous country? Done that. Next stop'? Washington.

is to do for political

campaigns, government agencies and trade groups what it's done for the entertainment

locomotive parts — and

especially one that cost as much as aBMW and got 19

Resurrect Tupac for a live performance? Been

Holographic technology is coming to the nation's capital. The hope

salesman, too — he sold

ally didn't need a new truck,

By Sean Sullivan The Washington Post

carrots Monday afternoon at Smith Rock Ranch in Terrebonne.

just outside the showroom doors. He couldn't miss it.

And that was by design. "I call it getting the juices flowing," Sunset Ford salesman Brett Bergman said

Hologram politicians? Not so far-fetched

Peter Mendelsund often

industry and elected

fred A. Knopf,became his own

Peter Mendelsund has

worst nightmare. He started

designed more

cent years: Increasingly become more necessity

says that "dead authors get the writingabookhimself. Coming best book jackets." up with a cover for his book, Mendelsund, who has

designed striking covers for departed giants like Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Joyce, dreads working with writers who demand a particular font,

'What We See When We Read," aplayful, illustratedtfeatise on

past decade.

howwords give riseto mental images, was excruciating. As the author, he felt as if no single image could serve. As the designer,

books coming

color, image or theme. "It ends

he had to put something on the

up lookinglike hell," he said. Thenlastyear, Mendelsund,

front, or resign in disgrace. See Book covers/A5

TODAY'S WEATHER Afternoon thunder High 90, Low 58 Page B6

than 600 book covers in the Now he has two out and is seeing

the process from the other side. Joshua Bright New York Times News Service

The Bulletin

INDEX At Home Business Calendar

D1-6 Classified E1 - 6 Dear Abby D6 Obituaries C5-6 Comics/Pu zzles E3-4 Horoscope D6 Sports B2 Crosswords E 4 L o cal/State B1-6 IV/Movies

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AnIndependent Newspaper

Vol. 112, No. 210,

30 pages, 5 sections

officials overseas in reand less novelty.

Hologram USA, a company specializing in the technology, announced Monday that it has hired the Northern Virginia-based firm U.S. Government Relations International.

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