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‘Evers’ says he’s afraid to reveal ID Former OLCC agent is worried about his safety, judge says By Nick Budnick The Bulletin
The real identity of “Jason Evers” remains a mystery.
PORTLAND — The longtime Bend resident and former regional manager for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission who is accused of stealing the identity of a dead boy has said he won’t reveal his true identity due to “safety concerns,” a federal judge said Thursday. In a Portland courtroom, Judge
Dennis Hubel said that the alleged impostor who uses the name Jason Evers has said that “there are safety concerns that he has that cause him to not reveal his true identity.” Hubel said Evers told this to representatives of the federal pretrial services unit, charged with recommending whether Evers can be safely released. Evers, who was in court Thurs-
day, was a controversial and highprofile public official while overseeing liquor law enforcement in more than half the state before requesting a demotion in January. He was arrested late last month for allegedly lying about his identity while applying for a passport in 2002. Agents with the federal Diplomatic Security Service made the arrest after cross-checking pass-
ports with death certificates, and say the state employee in Oregon used a murdered Ohio boy’s birth certificate to create a new identity in 1996 while living in Colorado. Evers’ true identity remains a mystery, and according to Hubel, the former Bend resident has said he won’t divulge it for the same reasons he took on the false identity in the first place: because of concerns that he would be in danger if his true identity were known. See Evers / A4
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WASHINGTON — Since its inception in 1991, the largest and longest-running study of American child care has generated plenty of controversial — and to many working parents, infuriating — conclusions about the effects on children of early care outside the family. The latest findings of the federally funded Early Child Care Research Network are certain to be no exception. At age 15, according to a study being published today in the journal Child Develop-
Related • Founder of the free-range movement worries that today’s kids are being overprotected, Page E1 ment, kids who spent long hours in day care as preschoolers are more impulsive and more prone to take risks than teens whose toddler years were spent largely at home. To be sure, the differences between kids who logged long hours in day care and those who did not were slight. See Day care / A5
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WASHINGTON — Greg Nielson pushed a joystick, and a video camera zoomed in on three men in moon suits and gas masks as they prepared to blow up a weapon of mass destruction less than five miles from the White House. Later, the crew slid the rusting World War I artillery shell into a small steel vault and sealed the door. They detonated an explosive charge to cut the projectile open, and pumped in reagent to neutralize its contents: liquid mustard, an infamous chemical warfare agent. The process is “as safe as sliced bread,” said Nielson, the operation leader, at a control panel in a nearby trailer. “Maybe safer.” Since 1993, the Army Corps of Engineers has removed 84 chemical-filled shells and more than 1,000 conventional munitions, plus at least 44,000 tons of contaminated dirt and debris, from the campus of American University and the manicured lawns of Spring Valley, one of Washington’s most prestigious neighborhoods. See Munitions / A4
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In the run-up to Tuesday’s primary, the seven candidates for two seats on the Deschutes County Commission are accusing each other of campaign finance transgressions. They are questioning each other’s compliance with campaign finance reporting rules, casting suspicion on the way their opponents spend money and pointing fingers at contributions of seemingly odd amounts. A longtime friend of Republican Commissioner Tammy Baney went a step further. She Inside filed a com• Mark plaint with Moseley the Secretary announces of State this bid for Bend month allegCity Council, ing Baney’s Page C1 opponent, Ed Barbeau, un• Prineville takes charter d e r r e p o r te d his advertising changes to expenditures. the voters, Under OrPage C1 egon law, candidates who raise more than $2,000 are required to report campaign contributions and expenditures by specific deadlines. As elections draw closer, the time frame for reporting gets shorter, so candidates now have seven days to file the information with the Oregon Secretary of State. A review of the seven candidates’ campaign finance reports revealed a few minor irregularities. Baney said, though, elected officials responsible for overseeing a budget of more than $300 million can’t afford accounting errors. See Commission / A5
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A stack of printed e-mail requests for copies of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate piles up at the Hawaii Department of Health in Honolulu earlier this week. Marco Garcia New York Times News Service
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HONOLULU — The conspiracy theorists who cling to the false belief that President Barack Obama was born outside the U.S. outrage many Democrats and embarrass many Republicans. But to a group of Hawaii state workers who toil away in a long building across from the Capitol, they represent something else: a headache and a waste of time. The theorists, known as birthers, have deluged the State Health Department here with so many demands for information about the president’s birth in Hawaii that Gov. Linda Lingle, a Republican, signed a law this week allowing state agencies to ignore repeated requests from people who have had a request answered in the last year. It comes none too soon for Health Department workers, who have been inundated with requests for the president’s birth records. See Birthers / A4