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New permits required on area rivers, lakes
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is added into motorized boat registrations, but users of paddlecraft longer than 10 feet need to buy a separate permit. Only one person in a boat has to have permit, said Rick Boatner, invasive species wildlife integrity coordinator with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. See Permits / A6
STAYING SAFE ON THE DESCHUTES Visit The Bulletin’s online river safety guide for information on where to go, how to avoid hazards and how to prepare for your Deschutes adventure. Go to www.bendbulletin.com/riversafety.
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boaters have to make sure they have an aquatic invasive species permit when they head toward the water. The permits, which cost $5 plus a $2 service fee, fund a program that aims to prevent the spread of invasive species like quagga mussels, Eurasian watermilfoil and New Zealand mud snails. The fee
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ASBURY PARK, N.J. — Here is a fun fact for those in the political polling orthodoxy who liken Scott Rasmussen to a conjurer of Republican-friendly numbers: He works above a paranormal bookstore crowded with Ouija boards and psychics on the Jersey Shore. Here’s the fact they find less amusing: From his unlikely outpost, Rasmussen has become a driving force in American politics. As cash-strapped newspapers and television networks struggle to meet the growing demand for polls, Rasmussen, 54, is supplying reams of cheap, automated surveys that will measure — and maybe move — opinion, especially as primary season gives way to the November midterm elections. See Pollster / A3
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Higher water and sewer rates are set to go into effect for Bend residents on July 1, part of the city’s effort to pay for $125 million in upgrades to both systems over the next five years. At Wednesday’s Bend City Council meeting, councilors approved a 8.75 percent increase for sewer rates and a 7.1 percent increase for water rates, an increase of just under $5 for the typical household. Councilors were split, with Mark Capell, Jodie Barram, Tom Greene and Jeff Eager voting for the increases, and Oran Teater, Jim Clinton and Mayor Kathie Eckman voting against. Paul Rheault, Bend’s director of public works, said the city has a busy construction schedule over the next few years, including an expanded wastewater treatment plant, a sewer interceptor line in southeast Bend, and a water treatment plant connected to a new 11-mile pipe to the city’s surface water intake at Bridge Creek west of Bend. See Fees / A6
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Melanie Nelson, 32, of Bend, paddles her kayak with her canine co-captain, Dizzy, on Friday afternoon on the Deschutes River near McKay Park.
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ATHENS — Sophia Constantinidou works as a teacher in a private school in Athens. She also has a more lucrative job: remaining unmarried. The 52-year-old gets $496 a month from the Greek government, part of her late mother’s state pension. Under the current system, Constantinidou qualifies to receive the payment for life as the only surviving child of a deceased civil servant, provided she doesn’t tie the knot. “It’s not that I didn’t want to get married,” Constantinidou, whose mother died 20 years ago, said in an interview. “But after I turned 40, I realized I wouldn’t be getting married and that thankfully I had this.” As the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and bond investors scrutinize debt-ridden Greece, they need look no further than the pension system for a prime example of how the country is living beyond its means. Greek pensioners on average live on 96 percent of the salary they had when they worked, more than twice the proportion of earnings as Germans, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). See Pensions / A3
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By Tim Johnson McClatchy-Tribune News Service
SELLS, Ariz. — Like any young man on the Tohono O’odham Indian reservation on the border with Mexico, Clayton Antone can reel off the going rate for smuggling a load of marijuana into the United States. “You get $2,000 for a 45-minute drive,” Antone said. The Mexican and Canadian shiny pickup trucks and late-model SUVs outside the homes of unemployed Indians on the reservation suggest that some have acted on the math. Traffickers in Mexico and Canada increasingly are using Indian reservations along the borders as conduits for bringing marijuana, Ecstasy and other illicit drugs into the U.S. The drug gangs take advantage of weak and underfunded tribal police forces and the remoteness of tribal lands, and they find that high unemployment rates and resentment of federal law enforcement agencies make some young Native Americans ready allies. Drug seizures on the tribal lands have risen sharply. In 2005, law enforcement agents made 292 seizures totaling 67 tons of marijuana. By 2009, they tallied 1,066 seizures totaling more than 159 tons. Cocaine also is moving in. On June 11, the U.S. attorney for Arizona indicted nine Tohono people on trafficking charges, ending a five-month probe in which undercover agents made 39 buys totaling more than 250 grams of cocaine. See Traffic / A3
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A bumper sticker warning against drug use is on an outdoor bulletin board on the Tohono O’odham Indian reservation along the Arizona border with Mexico.
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