Bulletin Daily Paper 09/07/10

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Clerk choice Bend group works to reclaim first firetruck spotlights “Just to be able to have it back and to sit in the high court’s seats ourselves would mean so much to us.” polarization original firetruck. Bend’s firetruck began its service in 1919. “Before we formed the society, all of our historical items were scattered, and we were in danger of losing them,” said Cindy Kettering, deputy fire marshal and member of the Bend Fire Department’s Historical Society. “Our goal is to reclaim our history and make sure those items stay around.” See Firetruck / A5

By Megan Kehoe The Bulletin

By Adam Liptak New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Each year, 36 young lawyers obtain the most coveted credential in U.S. law: a Supreme Court clerkship. Clerking for a justice is a glittering capstone on a resume that almost always includes outstanding grades at a top law school, service on a law review and a prestigious clerkship with a federal appeals court judge. Justice Clarence Thomas apparently has one additional requirement. Inside Without ex• Supreme ception, the 84 Court to rule clerks he has on protesting chosen over president’s his two despeeches, cades on the court all first Page A4 trained with an appeals court judge appointed by a Republican president. That unbroken ideological commitment is just the most extreme example of a recent and seldom examined form of political polarization on the Supreme Court. These days the more conservative justices are much more likely than were their predecessors to hire clerks who worked for judges appointed by Republicans. And the more liberal justices are more likely than in the past to hire from judges appointed by Democrats.

Bend’s first firetruck may be headed home. The Bend Fire Department Historical Society is looking to bring the truck from Washington state, but first it needs to raise $20,000 to arrange a swap. The historical society wants to purchase a 1918 AmericanLaFrance fire engine — the same year and model as Bend’s firetruck. The historical soci-

— Capt. Mike Baxter, Bend Fire Department

ety would buy the engine to trade it with the Poulsbo Fire Department in Washington — the current owner of Bend’s

Bend’s first firetruck — a 1918 American-LaFrance — is seen on display at the Poulsbo Fire Department in Washington. Submitted photo from the Bend Fire Department’s Historical Society

LABOR DAY

Politicians attend Bend union picnic By Cindy Powers

“We support unions, and unions are politics.”

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Dallas Brown showed up at a union-organized labor day picnic in Bend because he knew his grandmother would have wanted him to. Brown, a Democratic candidate for Deschutes County Commissioner, said he marked the event off his calendar Sunday when his grandmother died unexpectedly after complications from surgery. Then he realized that, as a union member for 35 years and the one who instilled in him an “enthusiasm for labor,” his grandma would have been disappointed if he didn’t show up.

— Roger Hanson, former president United Paperworkers International Union Brown, who is running against Republican Tony DeBone for Position 1 on the commission, was among a handful of Democratic officeholders and hopefuls who spoke at the picnic Monday, put on by the Central Oregon Labor Council. See Picnic / A5

4 clerks per year Each justice typically hires four clerks a year. Since Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. joined the court in 2005, Justice Antonin Scalia has not hired any clerks who had worked for a judge appointed by a Democratic president, and Justice Samuel Alito Jr. has hired only two. At the other end of the ideological spectrum, only four of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s clerks on the Roberts court came from judges appointed by Republicans. See Clerks / A4

Greg Delgado, center right, board member of Jobs With Justice, talks about labor issues with Shelly Glover of Terrebonne, Gerardo Zuniga and Nathaniel Glover at the Labor Day Uni=on Picnic at Pioneer Park in Bend on Monday.

Photos by Jeff Wick / The Bulletin

Dallas Brown, Deschutes County Commissioner candidate, shakes hands with supporters and picnickers at the Labor Day Union Picnic.

Louisianans seek advice from spill-affected Alaskans

SPOTTED OWL

Despite 20 years of federal protection, bird is declining

By Theresa Vargas The Washington Post

CORDOVA, Alaska — He’d just met her, but Evan Beedle wanted Rosina Philippe to know how his life changed after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, how pieces of his identity slipped away, one word at a time. Husband. Father. Fishermen. Philippe and about a dozen other Louisianans traveled more than 4,400 miles last month to talk to Alaskans such as Beedle. They expected advice. Less anticipated was how often it came with confessions.

By Les Blumenthal McClatchy-Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON — Twenty years after northern spotted owls were protected under the Endangered Species Act, their numbers continue to decline, and scientists aren’t certain whether the birds will survive even though logging was banned on much of the oldgrowth forest in the Pacific Northwest where they live in order to save them. The owl remains an iconic symbol in a region where once loggers in steel-spiked, hightopped caulk boots felled 200-

‘How do you move on?’ As Philippe and Evans stood talking in a parking lot, here he told her how after the spill his wife left him, how she took their child with her, how he went from being a man who never doubted he’d be a fisherman to one who grudgingly created a life away from the waters where he grew up. See Alaska / A4

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John Renner prepares for a trip out into in Prince William Sound on a stormy evening in Cordova, Alaska. Renner, who used to catch herring, observed the fish closely after the 1989 oil spill.

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Vol. 107, No. 250, 42 pages, 7 sections

INDEX Abby

E2

Business

B1-6

Calendar

E3

Classified

G1-6

Consumer

Comics

E4-5

Crossword E5, G2

Local

Editorial

Movies

Community E1-6

A2

C4

Horoscope

E5 C1-6 E3

Obituaries

C5

Technology

B3

Oregon

C3

TV listings

E2

Weather

C6

Sports

D1-6

“Nothing we do seems to work for the spotted owl.” — Eric Forsman, biologist, U.S. Forest Service year-old or even older trees and loaded them on trucks that compression-braked down twisty mountain roads to mills redolent with the smell of fresh sawdust and smoke from burning timber scraps. See Spotted owl / A5

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