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ABOVE: Mount McLaughlin looms above Upper Klamath Lake. BELOW: U.S. Highway 97 divides farmland from the lake north of Klamath Falls. With lake levels at record lows, some farmers are idling fields, pumping groundwater or moving operations elsewhere.
In Uganda, signs of failure in the global AIDS war By Donald G. McNeil Jr. New York Times News Service
KAMPALA, Uganda — On the grounds of Uganda’s biggest AIDS clinic, Dinavance Kamukama sits under a tree and weeps. Her disease is probably quite advanced: Her kidneys are failing, and she is so weak she can barely walk. Leaving her young daughter with family, she rode a bus four hours to the hospital where her cousin Allen Bamurekye, born infected, both works and gets the drugs that keep her alive. But there are no drugs for Kamukama. As is happening in other clinics in Kampala, all new patients go on a waiting list. A slot opens when a patient dies. See AIDS / A4
By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin
With water levels in Upper Klamath Lake at a record low, and the irrigation season projected to deliver only about a third of the normal water to farmers and ranchers, the Klamath Basin is preparing for a tough summer ahead. “We’re scared to death,” said Steve Kandra, 57, a farmer in Merrill, near the California border. “We’re putting in crops, because we’re farmers, and there’s a part of it that’s optimistic, otherwise you would never plant a seed. But people are hedging.”
Upper Klamath Lake has less water in it this spring than it did in 2001. That year, the Bureau of Reclamation shut off water to irrigators to ensure salmon and sucker fish had enough water, sparking irrigator protests, rallies and a bucket brigade, which drew national attention to the basin. In March of this year, the state of Oregon issued a drought declaration that allowed some in the Klamath area to start pumping groundwater. The federal government followed suit last week, issuing a disaster declaration that will bring additional funding to the area. See Klamath / A6
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Bend is contemplating an expansion of its civil exclusion policy, a practice that allows police to ban people cited or arrested for certain offenses from select parts of town for up to 90 days. While Bend has included most parks under its civil exclusion policy since 1993, the change under consideration by the City Council would create a new exclusion zone, taking in the downtown breezeway area, Riverfront Plaza at the west end of the breezeway, and other city-owned property along Brooks Alley between Oregon and Franklin avenues. The areas have long been frequented by transients and young people, and according to Bend Police, have been the site of disruptive behavior, alcohol use, and drug sales and use. Used in a number of communities around the state, exclusion zones have been controversial. In 2007, Portland Mayor Tom Potter — the city’s former police chief — opted against renewing a 14year-old exclusion zones policy targeting prostitution and drug use, on the grounds the zones disproportionately affected African-Americans and had been ineffective at suppressing the activities in question. David Fidanque, executive director of the ACLU of Oregon, said his organization objected to the Portland law primarily because an exclusion order could be applied before the accused has had his or her day in court. Individuals found in violation of an exclusion order are subject to trespassing charges. See Exclusion / A5 Ne
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Kagan said to be Obama’s choice for Supreme Court By Peter Baker New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation’s 112th justice, choosing his own chief advocate before the Supreme Court to join it in ruling on cases critical to his view of the country’s future, Democrats close to the White House said Sunday. After a monthlong search, Obama informed Kagan and his advisers on Sunday of his choice Elena Kagan to succeed the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. He plans to announce the nomination at 10 a.m. today in the East Room of the White House with Kagan by his side, said the Democrats, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the decision before it was formally made public. See Kagan / A5
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