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Bend council candidates sound off on city issues By Nick Grube The Bulletin
Bend City Council candidates drew upon their own experiences and backgrounds to answer questions posed during a League of Women Voters of Deschutes County candidate forum at City Hall on Monday. Whether speaking about enforcing leash laws, the municipal transit system or the city’s proposal to upgrade its aging Bridge Creek water system, the candidates cited anecdotes from their employ-
ment histories and personal lives in discussing their approaches. But throughout the evening, the candidates agreed that perhaps the two largest areas of concern for the city over the next four years are in economic development and dealing with Bend’s six-year, $17 million general fund deficit. See Council / A4
ELECTION
DISTRICT 54
Conger leads in fundraising with $260K
POSITION 5
“What we’re doing is not sustainable right now. We need to get back to our community values.” — Ronald Boozell
POSITION 7
“What we have to do over the next six years is find more efficiencies so that $17 million (deficit) is not there.” — Mark Capell
BEND-LA PINE
“We’re not “We “I think positioned 99 really at the city percent level to aid want to businesses focus on of the wanting attracting time free to move enterprise more to Bend is the way and spend industry to go.” money and here.” set up shop — Scott here.” — Chuck Ramsay Arnold — Mark Moseley
‘A no-brainer’ fundraiser
Budget woes limit parents’ access to teachers Conferences with educators cut to preserve instructional days By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
Bend-La Pine Schools has eliminated parentteacher conferences at its high schools this year, citing lost instructional days as the culprit. Due to continued “There are other budget constraints, five ways that parents days were eliminated from the 2010-11 school can connect with year, and district of- teachers and stay ficials decided to get rid of parent-teacher up on student conferences instead of progress.” another day of studentteacher interaction. — Katie Legace, High school adminis- principal, Mountain trators say teachers will View High School work harder to keep in touch with parents, and note fewer parents attend conferences at the high school level. Bend High Principal H.D. Weddel said he would like the conferences to continue, but student time in the classroom is more important. “When you (weigh) the two out, you always go to the side of time with the kids,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that we have to make decisions like this.” District spokeswoman Julianne Repman said the conferences were eliminated to give students an additional class day. See Bend-La Pine / A5
By Nick Budnick The Bulletin
SALEM — As Bend closes in on choosing a state representative in the November election, Republican challenger Jason Conger continues to outraise the Democratic incumbent, Judy Stiegler, and unaffiliated candidate Mike Kozak. In the House District 54 race, as of Monday, Conger’s reported contributions raised since last September totaled about $261,000, while Stiegler’s totaled $117,000. Kozak, who did not enter the race until June, reported about $17,000. The new totals are significant because they more accurately reflect the current state of campaign fundraising in Oregon. See Funding / A4
ELECTION
Top five contributors
Jason Conger
Mike Kozak
Judy Stiegler
$1,804 Computer Property Management $1,271.60 Barbara Myers Jones $1,000 (several tied: Jim Rathbone, Les Alford, Michael Kozak, David Regnier, Baney Corp., Kozak Co.) Total to date: $17,000 $37,821.33 House Democrats’ Future PAC $17,863.30 Oregon Education Association $5,000 American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees $2,850 American Federation of Teachers $2,500 (tie: United Food and Commercial Workers Local 55, Central Oregon Labor Council) Total to date: $117,000
Source: Oregon Secretary of State elections website, ORESTAR
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$25,606 House Republicans’ Promote Oregon Leadership Political Action Committee $25,000 Oregon Victory PAC $25,000 Oregon Beverage PAC $15,000 Oregon Reagan PAC $11,000 Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association PAC Total to date: $261,000
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ormer NFL star Drew Bledsoe, 38, right, chips onto the ninth green at the Bend Golf and Country Club during a Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon fundraiser Monday. Watching Bledsoe’s shot is his friend
Eric Carmichael of Bend. The event raised $6,000, money that will help fund the organization’s programs. “Big Brothers and Big Sisters deserves our support,” Bledsoe said. “And to get to play golf and do that — it’s a no-brainer.”
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Vol. 107, No. 278, 42 pages, 7 sections
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — When it hit the streets here last week, the latest issue of ReLeaf, a pullout supplement to The Colorado Springs Independent devoted to medical marijuana, landed with a satisfying thud. Forty-eight pages in all, it was stuffed with advertisements for businesses with names like Mile High Mike’s, Happy Buddha and the Healthy Connections. A full-page ad in ReLeaf costs about $1,100, making the publication a cash cow for The Independent, which has used its bounty from medical marijuana ads this year to hire one new reporter and promote three staff members to full time. The paper has also added a column called CannaBiz that follows news from across the country; its author is the new marijuana beat writer. What would happen in the many communities now allowing medical marijuana had been a subject of much hand-wringing. But few predicted this: that it would be a boon for local newspapers looking for ways to cope with the effects of the recession and the flight of advertising — especially classified listings — to websites like Craigslist. See Ads / A5
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