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ROOSTER ROCK FIRE
Crews hold blaze at 6,134 acres
Kulongoski beats drum for his reset in Bend By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
Get rid of the tax kicker law, reform public employees’ health care and pension benefits, and tie outcomes to funding for Oregon’s schools, colleges and universities. That was the message outgoing Gov. Ted Kulongoski had for Central Oregonians on Friday at the City Club of Central Oregon forum. Kulongoski, who came to the forum directly from the Rooster Rock fire line on Friday, spoke to a packed room at St. Charles Bend about his recommendations for resetting government in an effort to make the state more fiscally viable. “This last recession, which we’ve come to call the Great Recession, actually has changed Gov. Ted reality,” he said. “It is a new real- Kulongoski ity for us.” And we’re not out of the woods just yet, he said. The governor’s recommendations are based on a report prepared by his Reset Cabinet, a group of private-sector and government representatives he appointed last year to seek out ways to cut spending. The group’s recommendations include releasing inmates early, changing the way the state handles union negotiations on state employee salary and benefits, and tying teacher pay to student performance. Talking to the public about these recommendations hasn’t been easy, Kulongoski said. Reactions to changes in public safety, education and state employees’ wages can raise people’s hackles. See Kulongoski / A6
On the Web To read Kulongoski’s reset government report, go to http://governor.oregon.gov/Gov/governor_reset_ cabinet/reset_state_govt.shtml .
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The southeast border of the Rooster Rock Fire smolders Friday afternoon after being contained by fire crews. The 6,134-acre fire is currently 50 percent contained.
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Friday might have been windy, but firefighters managed to keep the Rooster Rock Fire within its fire line and at 6,134 acres through the early evening. “Today operations went extremely well, and they were able to once again hold it within the
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containment lines,” said Heather Fisher, public information officer with the fire. The wildfire, which ignited about six miles south of Sisters on Monday, is now 50 percent contained, she said. Almost 1,000 people are working to contain it — including a night shift of employees scheduled to mop up the charred ground around the fire line Friday night.
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Crews will be walking in a grid from the line to ensure they have an entire area covered, Fisher said. They’ll check to make sure there’s no heat and no smoking roots or logs that could reignite. It’s what firefighters call a “seek and destroy” method, she said, to ensure that every hot spot along the perimeter is out. See Fire / A7
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Vaughn Walker
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SAN FRANCISCO — Back in 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated a buttoned-down Republican lawyer named Vaughn Walker to a San Francisco federal judgeship, provoking one of the fiercest confirmation fights over a Bay Area federal judge in history. San Francisco’s powerful civil rights organizations and Democratic leadership greeted Walker’s nomination with howls of protest. They branded him hostile and “insensitive” to gay and lesbian rights because of his representa-
tion of the U.S. Olympic Committee in a lawsuit against the Gay Olympics over the use of the Olympics brand. The protests continued unabated for two years before Walker was finally confirmed during the first Bush administration. Now, Walker is the toast of the gay community, the author this week of an unprecedented ruling striking down California’s ban on same-sex marriage because it violates the equal rights of gay and lesbian couples. And he is a villain to conservative foes of samesex marriage. See Judge / A7
NEW ORLEANS — Now that BP appears to have vanquished its ruptured well, authorities are turning their attention to gathering evidence from what could amount to a crime scene at the bottom of the Inside sea. • BP turns to The wreckage — including the relief well, failed blowout preventer and the Page A3 blackened, twisted remnants of the drilling platform — may be Exhibit A in the effort to establish who is responsible for the biggest peacetime oil spill in history. And the very companies under investigation will be in charge of recovering the evidence. See Oil / A6
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The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns April 21 in the Gulf of Mexico. Investigators are eager to get a look at wreckage from the rig in their efforts to learn more about what caused the disaster.