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Wyden, Walden help tackle the deficit By Keith Chu The Bulletin
WASHINGTON — After nearly two years of explosive growth in government spending on stimulus programs, bank bailouts and foreign wars, politicians this week turned to ways to trim the $1.4 trillion federal deficit. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., joined what might be the most ideologically divergent group of lawmakers in Wa s h i n g t o n on Thursday, to call for military spending to be included in deficit reduction talks. And U.S. Rep. Oregon’s Sen. Greg Walden, Ron Wyden, R-Hood River, top, and Rep. is spearheadGreg Walden ing an Interare weighing net-based camin on ways to paign by House cut the federal Republicans to deficit. highlight potentially wasteful federal programs. While those efforts could be valuable, according to a federal budget expert, they’re also miniscule compared to the size of the federal deficit. Wyden paired with U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass, at a news conference. The group also sent a letter to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility, which is tasked with finding ways to lower the federal deficit. See Deficit / A6
In Portland, neighborhood schools get a second chance By Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times
PORTLAND — For years, urban schools have struggled with segregation. When busing failed, many lured students out of racially isolated neighborhoods with irresistible programs in theater, technology and advanced academics at schools across town. Here in Portland, as in many other cities, the plan backfired: White, middle-class parents adept at school bureaucracy got their children into the best schools. Poor families got left behind in ever-shrinking, underfunded and poorly performing neighborhood schools. Now, in a move that in another era and another city might have been seen as segregationist, Portland is preparing to abandon its liberal cross-town transfer policy and go back to the oncediscredited model of neighborhood schools. See Schools / A4
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Feds: ‘Evers’ not a U.S. citizen Old friend in Denver helps ID ex-OLCC agent as Doitchin Krasev, a man he says loved the ‘cloak-and-dagger of the false identity’ Editor’s note: This story was written by Cindy Powers, based on reporting by Powers in Denver, Nick Budnick in Connecticut, and Erin Golden and Scott Hammers in Bend.
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DENVER — It’s been two days since Denver fly-fishing guide Chris Galvin found out his buddy of nearly a decade is sitting in a Portland jail, suspected of stealing the identity of an Ohio boy kidnapped and killed 28 years ago.
Galvin got a text message from a friend with a link to an online news story about a former Oregon liquor enforcement agent who used the name Jason Evers and refused to reveal his true identity to a federal magistrate. Photos published with the story showed a man Galvin befriended in Colorado nearly 20 years ago. By Wednesday night, agents with the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service were at Galvin’s house. The information he provided led them to the real name of the man in custody, Doitchin Krasev.
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The name was contained in federal court documents released Thursday night. “That was the lead that started it,” Patrick Durkin, special agent in charge with the Diplomatic Security Service, said. “That lead led us to another state where he had another driver’s license, and then from there we’ve just used some very good investigative footwork to get it done.” Durkin provided few details about the case but said investigators believe Krasev is not a U.S. citizen. See Evers / A4
At left is this year’s booking mug of Doitchin Krasev; at right is a photo of “Danny Kaiser” taken in the early 1990s and provided by Chris Galvin, who met him in Colorado about 20 years ago.
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Tattoo artist fights for his (First Amendment) right to self-expression By Carol J. Williams Los Angeles Times
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ava Lake Resort employee Bob Willis, 57, of La Pine, walks down to the boat docks Thursday with Mount Bachelor in the background to finish preparations for holiday weekend visitors. “The midges are out, and the fish are getting fat,” Willis said of conditions at the lake in recent days. Both Little Lava
Lake and Lava Lake campgrounds are snow-free, but just up the road at Elk Lake Resort, snow depths still limit access, though the road to the resort is plowed. Access to U.S. Forest Service campgrounds in the Newberry Crater also are limited due to snow, but East Lake Resort and RV Park and Paulina Lake Resort are open.
Weekend outlook is sunny for area tourism Events lineup may bode well for the rest of summer By Adrianne Jeffries The Bulletin
Businesses that depend on tourism can expect a “solid” Memorial Day weekend on par with last year, according to a survey of most of the lodging establishments in the area by the Central Oregon Visitors Association. The outlook for the rest of the summer is less certain, said Alana Audette, president and CEO of COVA, because the economy
has been so volatile in the last two years. Tourism was hit particularly hard in 2009 when room taxes, a barometer of the industry, dropped 9.5 percent in unincorporated Deschutes County and 14.4 percent in Bend for the fiscal year that ended June 30. “We are not projecting any kind of significant growth for the summer of 2010. We are hoping to be even with last year or slightly better,” Audette said. “We want to be optimis-
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tic, but we’ve learned the hard way that we need to be cautious.” But advance bookings and a strong lineup of summer events suggest the number of tourists this summer could increase up to 5 percent, she said. Several events are coming for the first or second time this year, including the first-ever Beard Team USA National Beard and Moustache Championships next weekend, when up to 400 hairy-faced men and their families will come to Bend. See Tourism / A4
LOS ANGELES — A tiny spade is etched on the skin under Johnny Anderson’s right eye. It’s a tattooed salute to the World War II soldiers of Easy Company who he says wore the symbol on playing cards tucked into their helmets as amulets while fighting to liberate Nazi-occupied France. The spade joins a human canvas of skin-deep statements about Anderson’s politics, faith and values. His body is covered with images of snakes, eagles, Christian iconography and assorted Americana, in what he regards as an individual’s most ardent and enduring form of expression. But one man’s flesh-bound free speech is another’s idea of unhealthful mutilation and underclass war paint. In the city of Hermosa Beach and other upscale California oceanfront communities, tattooing is effectively banned for what city officials say is a risk to the public’s health, safety and welfare. See Tattoo / A6
Related • Memorial Day closures, Page C1 • Holiday weekend youth baseball tournament is kicking off in Bend, Page D1
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Tattoo artist Johnny Anderson works on a client in Los Angeles last month. Anderson is suing the city of Hermosa Beach, which refused to let him open a tattoo parlor.
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MILITARY: House votes to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, Page A3
NATIONAL SECURITY: Obama’s plan takes U.S. in new direction, Page A3