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State faces fines for low welfare enrollment

Study reveals cost-cutting measures for area schools

IT’S FARMERS MARKET SEASON

By Keith Chu The Bulletin

By Sheila G. Miller

WASHINGTON — Oregon faces $16 million in fines for failing to meet federal guidelines for its welfare program over the past two years, according to letters released to The Bulletin this week by the U.S. Administration for Children and Families. The fines are threatened be- “It is kind cause the state of tough has enrolled far fewer recipients to meet of Temporary those Assistance for Needy Fami- federal lies aid in work demands. programs than required by fed- I don’t eral guidelines. think in As a result, the this case state Department of Human it reflects Services could Oregon lose 5 percent of the state’s annu- kind of al $167 million slacking TANF grant for both 2007 and off.” 2008. Oregon — Joy DHS is appealing the federal Margheim, fines, but if it los- Oregon es, it will mean Center for fewer services Public Policy for the state’s u n e m plo ye d , just when jobs are scarcest. “It will add to the projected shortfall, and it will definitely force some critical choices for the state and for the Legislature,” said Xochitl Estarza, the TANF program manager for DHS. Under federal rules, 45 percent of Oregon TANF recipients had to have jobs, search for work or take part in job training, or other similar activities for between 20 and 35 hours each week, depending on the family. See Fines / A4

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Area school districts could save $500,000 in the first two years if they combine some services, according to an efficiency study conducted by the Chalkboard Project and the High Desert Education Service District. On Tuesday, the High Desert ESD announced it would partner with Redmond and Crook County districts to regionalize human resources services. It’s the first step in what will likely turn out to be a long process toward changing the way area school districts do business, particularly after Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced last week that state agencies may have to cut as much as 10 percent from their budgets. “I think with the budget cuts we all just got a week ago and what we can expect in the next biennium, this is a great jumping-off point to ask hard questions,” said High Desert ESD Superintendent Dennis Dempsey. “We’ve got to do business differently.” See Study / A4

2 officers on leave after using firearms By Scott Hammers

RIGHT: A shopper holds a tomato at the Schoolhouse Produce tent Tuesday at Eagle Crest Resort. Farmers’ markets are opening across the region in the coming weeks, with the Madras market opening Saturday, The Redmond Market Monday and the Prineville Market on June 12.

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Suspects must declare choice to remain silent By David G. Savage McClatchy-Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court backed off Tuesday from strict enforcement of the famous Miranda decision and its right to remain silent, ruling that a crime suspect’s words can be used against him if he fails to clearly to tell the police that he does not want to talk. In the past, the court had said the “burden rests on the government” to show that a crime suspect has “knowingly and intelligently waived” his rights. Some police departments tell officers not to begin questioning until a suspect has waived his rights, usually by signing a waiver form. But in Tuesday’s 5-4 decision, the court shifted the balance in favor of the police and against the suspect. It said the suspect

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ABOVE: Fifteen-month-old Thomas Keegan laughs as he does a sloppy job feeding his mother, Chelse Keegan, 26, a cupcake while the two shopped at the Tuesday market at Eagle Crest Resort. They were on vacation visiting from Buffalo, Wyo. The open-air market will be held every Tuesday through Aug. 31 from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. Bend’s Farmer’s Market opens today at the east end of Drake Park, and will run every Wednesday from 3 to 7 p.m. through Oct. 13

Inside • Court decides on diplomatic immunity rule, Page A5 has a duty to speak up and to say he does not want to talk. Moreover, the police are “not required to obtain a waiver” of the suspect’s “right to remain silent before interrogating him,” wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. In her first strongly written dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the ruling “turns Miranda upside down” and “marks a substantial retreat from the protection against compelled self-incrimination.” Some experts on police questioning said the court’s subtle shift will be felt in stationhouses across the country. See Miranda / A5

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A thief of memory stalks a Colombian family Cluster of Alzheimer’s cases provides rare opportunity for trial

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bles incoherently, shreds his socks and • Colombian diapers, and doctor seeks squirms so vigroot to orously he is ‘madness’, sometimes tied Page A6 to a chair with baggy blue shorts. A daughter, Maria Elsy, a nurse who, at 48, started forgetting patients’ medications, and whose irrational rages made her attack a sister who bathed her, is now a human shell, mute, fed by a nose tube. Another son, Oderis, 50, denies that his memory is dying, that he remembers to buy only one thing at a time: milk, not milk and plantains. If he gets Alzheimer’s, he says, he will poison himself. “To see your children like this,” Cuartas said. “It’s horrible, horrible. I wouldn’t wish this on a rabid dog. It is the most terrifying illness on the face of the earth.” See Alzheimer’s / A6

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By Pam Belluck New York Times News Service

YARUMAL, Colombia — Tucked away on a steep street in this rough-hewn mountain town, an old woman found herself diapering her middle-age children. At frighteningly young ages, in their 40s, four of Laura Cuartas’ children began forgetting and falling apart, assaulted by what people here have long called La Bobera, the foolishness. It is a condition attributed, in hushed rumors, to everything from touching a mysterious tree to the revenge of a wronged priest. It is Alzheimer’s disease, and at 82, Cuartas, a grave, gray woman with a raisin of a face, takes care of three of her children undone by dementia. One son, Dario, now 55, bab-

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Blanca Nelly Betancur bathes her husband, Carlos Alberto Villegas, in Medellin, Columbia. The family is participating in a potentially groundbreaking assault on Alzheimer’s to see if giving treatment before dementia starts can lead to preventing Alzheimer’s altogether.