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BEND-LA PINE

School board considers bond for 2012

Exploring Dudley’s history 16 years in the NBA, Yale education, diabetes ... a former Democrat?

By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

By Nick Budnick

The Bend-La Pine Schools is considering asking voters to approve another bond in November 2012, as the district finishes up construction projects paid for by its 2006 bond. On Tuesday, the school board met and discussed the progress currently being made to finish work from the $119 million bond passed in November 2006. That bond paid for three new elementary schools and more than 50 other renovations, additions and other small-scale projects in schools around Bend and La Pine. The bond is scheduled to be paid off by 2027. The last big construction project, a renovation and addition of Three Rivers School in Sunriver, is expected to be completed by the end of January. Just a dozen small projects, like reducing the height of the chimney at Highland Magnet School at Kenwood and upgrading the boardroom in the administration building, remain. Those will likely be completed throughout the school year and during summer 2011. Once those are finished, the district will take a look at what additions and renovations are still needed in the district. See Bend-La Pine / A5

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SALEM — In January 1999, tempers flared when members of the National Basketball Association gathered to talk about a bitter labor dispute with league ownership. Two star players, Charles Barkley of the Houston Rockets and Charles Oakley of the Toronto Raptors, got into a physical altercation, with Oakley reportedly slapping and taunting Barkley while Barkley threw a punch. The two were quickly separated, and the man who served as the “voice of reason,” helping return the players’ attention to the matter at hand, was Chris Dudley, according to his friend Chris Dudley and former agent, Dan Fegan. It’s not the kind of story you hear about most candidates, but the 45-year-old Republican, Dudley — now in a race with Democrat John Kitzhaber to be Oregon’s next governor — doesn’t have the kind of record you hear about from most candidates. The Yale-educated Dudley overcame diabetes and a lack of strong offensive skills to spend 16 years in the NBA, becoming treasurer of the NBA Players Association. He started a foundation and summer camp to help children with diabetes, and spent three years and a half years in the wealth management business, helping advise the affluent on how to preserve and build their net worth. See Dudley / A4

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HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL

Correction In a story headlined “Health care battle now on three fronts,” which appeared Sunday, Oct. 24, on Page A1, Dr. Jeff Absalon’s name was misspelled. The Bulletin regrets the error.

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MON-SAT

Saudi-Yemeni border inviting for criminals, refugees By Robert F. Worth

Horoscopes Local

By David Kocieniewski

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to make it a point every October to drive down from Redmond to view the fall col-

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ana Hayden and her two daughters Ella, 6, and Maya, 14, walk their dog, Jack, past

ors in the park. Today is forecast to reach a high of 51 degrees with a chance of snow in the

IRAQ: Former Saddam Hussein aide sentenced to death, Page A3

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a patch of snow in Drake Park on Tuesday afternoon. Dana Hayden said they try

Nursing mothers call for tax break

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ON THE SAUDI-YEMENI BORDER — The five Yemeni men, all of them rail-thin, clutched their knees as they sat staring across the sand at the narrow road, which separates the Arab world’s poorest country from

its richest. “They’re waiting for us to move on,” said the Saudi border guard with a weary smile, as he sat watching from the front seat of a gleaming SUV. “Waiting so they can try to cross.” This remote 1,100-mile frontier, once a casual crossing point for Bed-

ouins and goats, has become an emblem of the increasingly global threats emanating from Yemen: fighters from al-Qaida, Shiite insurgents, drugs and arms smuggling and, well under the world’s radar, one of the largest flows of economic refugees on earth. See Yemen / A4

Gun lobby limits ATF headway By Sari Horwitz and James V. Grimaldi The Washington Post

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Trucks filled with boxes of gunsales records pull up almost daily to a one-story brick building nestled in the hills outside this blue-collar town. Inside, workers armed with Scotch tape and

magnifying glasses huddle over their desks, trying to decipher pieces of paper to trace the paths of guns used in crimes. The National Tracing Center is the only place in the nation authorized to trace gun sales. Here, researchers with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives make phone calls and

pore over handwritten records to track down gun owners. In contrast with such state-ofthe-art, 21st-century crime-fighting techniques as DNA matching and digital fingerprint analysis, gun tracing is an antiquated, laborious process done mostly by hand. See Guns / A5

New York Times News Service

Denture wearers will get a tax break on the cost of adhesives to keep their false teeth in place. So will acne sufferers who buy pimple creams. People whose children have severe allergies might even be allowed the break for replacing grass with artificial turf since it could be considered a medical expense. But nursing mothers will not be allowed to use their tax-sheltered health care accounts to pay for breast pumps and other supplies. That is because the Internal Revenue Service has ruled that breast-feeding does not have enough health benefits to quality as a form of medical care. The new regulations, stemming from the health care overhaul, take effect in January for flexible spending accounts, which allow millions of Americans to set aside part of their pretax earnings to pay for unreimbursed medical expenses. See Tax break / A5

A cache of firearms at the Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Ricky Carioti The Washington Post


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