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Economy at center stage in commissioners race Candidates for 2 Deschutes County seats focusing on jobs, taxes By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
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Local business leaders and groups with a stake in Deschutes County government want to hear ideas on how to create jobs and attract new businesses from candidates running for two County Commission positions this year.
Some also want the candidates in the November election to address land use issues. The four Republican and three Democratic candidates have gotten the message, as most are already talking about ideas to stimulate the economy, from a business loan fund to setting aside industrial land. Several candidates challenging incum-
bent commissioners Tammy Baney and Dennis Luke also said commissioners need to work harder to diversify the economy so it is not as focused on real estate, construction and tourism. A local land use advocacy group echoed some candidates who said the county’s economy needs to shift away from real estate and construction. See Election / A4
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Classified workers opt to settle grievance Proposal awaiting school board’s approval is likely to restart stalled contract negotiations with union
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By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin
REDMOND — Redmond classified school employees voted Tuesday evening to settle a union grievance filed against the school district, likely ending a fight that stalled a labor contract approval. The Redmond School Board must now vote on the proposed settlement, which it is expected to do tonight. If approved, the board is also scheduled to vote on a new contract with the union. Board members have twice delayed voting on the contract, waiting for a resolution of the grievance. Filed in February, the grievance argued that the district’s roughly 300 classified employees were being shortchanged on how the district counted personal and sick leave during the four-day school week, which the district instituted this year to save money. The district defined a day as equal to eight hours, but the grievance argued a day should be equivalent to how long an employee is required to work during a four-day week. That was often nine hours or more. Under the proposed settlement, classified employees agreed to drop sick leave from the grievance and focus just on personal leave, according to Bob Bradetich, the Oregon School Employees Association field representative in Central Oregon. See Schools / A4
More school news inside • The poetry of pi: Students at Bend’s Seven Peaks School get creative for National Pi Day, Page C3
Candice Berner was killed March 8 near Chignik Lake, Alaska, in a rare case of a wolf attack on a human.
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arry Erickson, foreground, clears his ball from trouble on the 15th hole Tuesday as he and other golfers enjoy a day of play at Juniper Golf Course in Redmond. As golf season gets under way, a number of local
Courtesy Lake and Peninsula School District via Anchorage Daily News
courses are offering special passes and other incentives designed to lure golfers — especially local ones
— onto the links. For more on regional golf greens fee specials, see Tee to Green, Page D1.
Advocates of states’ rights How privacy is vanishing gain ground on many issues online, a little bit at a time From Utah to Oklahoma, lawmakers take a stand By Kirk Johnson New York Times News Service
Whether it’s a correctly called a movement, a backlash or political theater, state declarations of their rights — or in some cases denunciations of federal authority, amounting to the same thing — are on a roll. Gov. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, a Republican, signed a bill into law on Friday declaring that the federal regulation of firearms is invalid if
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a weapon is made and used in South Dakota. On Thursday, Wyoming’s governor, Dave Freudenthal, a Democrat, signed a similar bill for that state. The same day, Oklahoma’s House of Representatives approved a resolution that Oklahomans should be able to vote on a state constitutional amendment allowing them to opt out of the federal health care overhaul. See States / A5
Sources combined to build identity picture By Steve Lohr New York Times News Service
“(The Internet) will change our collective sense of what is private and public.” — Alessandro Acquisti, researcher
If a stranger came up to you on the street, would you give him your name, Social Security number and e-mail address? Probably not. Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced. Services like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr are oceans of personal minutia — birthday
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greetings sent and received, school and work gossip, photos of family vacations, movies watched and books read. Computer scientists and policy experts say that such small, seemingly innocuous bits of self-revelation can increasingly be collected and reassembled by computers to help create a complete picture of a person’s identity, sometimes down to the Social Security number. See Privacy / A5
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Teacher killed by wolves left blog that gives vivid picture of her final days By Julia O’Malley Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Last August above the Alaska Peninsula, a 30-something teacher from the East Coast snapped a photo out the window of a plane. The frame captured the underside of the wing, a distant snowy mountain and a muddy creek snaking through a green valley far below. A few days later, Candice Berner posted her snapshot in the first entry of a blog about teaching in rural Alaska. She titled the post, “The Journey begins ...” For the next five months, Berner, who was killed March 8 in what Alaska State Troopers say was a rare wolf attack, kept a detailed blog of her time as a traveling teacher based out of the coastal village of Perryville. She averaged two or three posts a month. See Teacher / A5
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TV listings
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HEALTH CARE: Worried Dems weigh new tactics on reform bill, Page A3