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MEASURE 73
A CROSS-COUNTRY THREE-PEAT FOR SUMMIT
Stiffer DUII sentences: How to pay for them?
The Summit High School girls cross-country team sprinted to win its third consecutive Class 5A state title Saturday in Eugene, easily besting runner-up Mountain View and other schools. From left: Ashley Maton, Makenna Tague, Sara Fristoe, Tess Nelson, Megan Fristoe, Brit Oliphant and Kira Kelly. For full prep cross-country coverage, see Sports, Page D1.
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Reducing the herd
By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
BLM’s roundup of 360 wild horses south of Burns is intended to preserve public land — but emotions are running high
Finding a way to pay for stiffer penalties for repeat drunken drivers and sex offenders approved by voters in Tuesday’s election will be among the issues on the table when newly elected legislators and Gov. John Kitzhaber take their posts in January. Measure 73 passed by a solid margin — just shy of 57 percent of voters voted yes, and it passed in 34 of 36 counties. It imposes minimum sentences of 90 days in jail for drivers convicted of driving under the influence three times in 10 years, and 25 years in prison for a second conviction for one of four felony sex crimes. As with past voter-approved ballot measures dealing with minimum mandatory sentences, Measure 73 did not provide a mechanism to pay for the cost of putting more people behind bars for longer periods of time. Estimates prepared by state officials put the cost of Measure 73 at between $12.8 million and $16 million for the first two years, expanding to $18.1 million to $29.1 million each year by year five. With the state already facing an estimated $3.2 billion budget shortfall over the next two years, Measure 73 will require the Legislature and the state Department of Corrections to figure out how to house an estimated 300 to 600 new inmates. See Measure 73 / A6
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As USDA cautions against obesity, it pushes dairy sales Photos by Rob Kerr / The Bulletin
By Michael Moss
Observers wait at sunrise Friday before heading to a trap site where BLM contractors are gathering wild horses from the Warm Springs herd in Harney County. The roundup started Tuesday and is scheduled to last into this week, with the goal of gathering about 360 horses. The horses are being corralled in sorting pens (above, on Friday afternoon); after all the horses in the herd have been gathered, 96 of them, selected for their age, sex and other characteristics, like coloring — will be returned to the range.
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Domino’s Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worsttasting pies. Then help arrived from an organization called Thinkstock Dairy Management. It teamed up with Domino’s to develop a new line of pizzas with 40 percent more cheese, and proceeded to devise and pay for a $12 million marketing campaign. Consumers devoured the cheesier pizza, and sales soared by double digits. But as healthy as this pizza has been for Domino’s profits, one slice contains as much as two-thirds of a day’s maximum recommended amount of saturated fat, which has been linked to heart disease and is high in calories. And Dairy Management, which has made cheese its cause, is not a private consultant. It is a creation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture — the same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive that discourages over-consumption of some of the very foods Dairy Management is vigorously promoting. See Dairy / A7
By Kate Ramsayer • The Bulletin BURNS —
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he appaloosa mustang, brown with a white, freckled rump, caught the eye of 16-year-old Katie Westbury. “Mom, I want that one,� Westbury said. She and her mother, Tracey Westbury, admired the wild horses that were rounded up and corralled at a temporary facility south of Burns last week. There were buckskins, blue and red roans, pintos and a jet black stallion that reminded Tracey Westbury of a black mustang she had adopted from the same herd. Nearby, Laura Leigh, an animal welfare ac-
tivist, wanted to go to the far side of the pen to document foals separated from their mothers. Bureau of Land Management officials said no and kept visitors against a fence and away from the animals. As the BLM rounds up the Warm Springs herd of wild horses south of Burns this week, it has an attentive audience. Opponents of wild-horse gathers, who want to stop the roundups they see as cruel and unnecessary, came to watch the operation Friday, as did mustang owners who are passionate about the animals and just wanted to watch the gathers for themselves.
“We’re trying to make it transparent as we can,� said Mark Wilkening, spokesman for the BLM out of the Vale District. The agency is required by law to keep the size of herds under certain levels to keep the habitat and animals healthy, he said. The BLM is responsible for managing about 38,400 wild horses and burros on rangelands across the West. In 2010, it is scheduled to gather 12,000 horses — including about 360 from the Warm Springs herd — sending those that aren’t adopted to long-term pastures in the Midwest. See Wild horses / A4
“We’re trying to make (the roundup as) transparent as we can.� — Mark Wilkening, spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management
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OBAMA: In Asia but with eyes on U.S. job growth, president unveils billions in trade deals with India, Page A2