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MADRAS SOLDIER HONORED, AND PROGNOSIS IS MUCH IMPROVED Army Sgt. Ryan Craig, 23, of Madras, was awarded a Purple Heart Friday at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where he is recovering after being shot in the head in Afghanistan. Craig’s mother, Jennifer Miller, was at his side for the ceremony, as she’s been since he arrived at the hospital. See story, Page C1.
A new Legislature, and locals are set to lobby on vital issues By Lauren Dake
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There’s a lot at stake this legislative session. Everything ranging from education to social services to natural resources will be given a hard look as the state tries to close a $3.5 billion gap between costs and projected revenue. As the region’s lawmakers prepare to head to Salem for Monday’s inauguration, local officials are prioritizing what they would like to see happen before the scheduled end of the session in June.
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• What to watch for in the 2011 Legislature. Economic Development for Central Oregon, is focused on a state transportation rule he says is “the kiss of death” to development. Bend’s former mayor, Kathie Eckman, said, “It’s hung up almost every small city that’s tried to do any growth planning at all.” It’s at the top of the priority pile for Central Oregon government officials: the state’s transportation planning
rule. The rule requires identified funds for road improvements before allowing more businesses near busy roads. First adopted in IN THE the 1990s, the rule was LEGISLATURE meant to minimize traffic congestion. But community officials said it’s too difficult to pay for road improvements before the nearby land has been developed. In Bend, it slowed the city’s progress in developing Juniper Ridge. See Legislature / A6
Ducks: Countdown to Monday’s BCS national title game
Future auto technology aims to block the inebriated
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With online travel sites battling with some airlines, where does that leave travelers shopping for flights online? The simple answer is that they’re going to have to do more digging. American removed its flight listings from Orbitz.com last month, when the companies could not agree on a new contract, and Delta withdrew its fares from CheapoAir.com, OneTravel.com and Bookit.com. More recently, Expedia.com dropped American flight listings. Delta has also notified Airfare. com, CheapAir.com, Vegas.com, AirGorilla.com and Globester. com that it will no longer allow its fares to be included on their websites in the United States and Canada after Friday. The moves represent a standoff over the fees that airlines must pay to list their flights with online travel agencies. And at least one major fare distributor, Sabre, which runs a computer system that allows travel agents to see flight and fare information, joined the fray Wednesday. See Airlines / A6
The technology developed in the past decade to sniff out terrorist bombs eventually may be used to combat another scourge: drunk drivers. Researchers funded by auto manufacturers and federal safety regulators are working on sensory devices — to be installed as standard equipment on all new vehicles — that would keep a vehicle from starting if the driver has had too much to drink. “We’re five to seven years away from being able to integrate this into cars,” said Robert Strassburger, vice president for safety for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a trade group for the world’s major auto companies. The new technology would not require that the driver blow into a tube, like the interlock devices some states require after drunkendriving convictions. Instead, either a passive set of sensors permanently installed in the vehicles or touch-sensitive contact points on a key fob or starter button would immediately register the level of alcohol in the bloodstream. See Driving / A7
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University of Oregon head coach Chip Kelly walks to his car following a media day event Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Today: Could Kenjon Barner be the Ducks’ extra edge? Notes from Arizona, D1. Coming Sunday: A special section wrapped around Sports previews the game. On the Web: visit www.bendbulletin.com/ducks.
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Under siege in Somalia, a doctor gets an apology
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — For Oregon linebacker Spencer Paysinger, Monday’s BCS National Championship Game against Auburn cannot come soon enough. “Everything you could possibly ask has been asked,” Paysinger said, smiling. “If we could play this game this afternoon, or even tomorrow, that
would be a dream.” In a hotel conference room whose entrance was lined, appropriately, with towering cactuses, players from both teams endured media day on Friday, answering more of the same questions they have addressed for the past month. The National Championship Trophy, a dazzling crystal football, sat on a stage in the front and center of the room. Coaches
and some of the more high-profile players answered questions from podiums spread along the sides of the room. Other players sat at their own small tables as reporters and television cameras came and went. Auburn players filled the conference room first, answering questions for an hour. Then came Oregon’s turn. “You see some faces that have been on TV, it’s kind of crazy,”
Paysinger said, referring to a couple of prominent ESPN college football reporters. “Everybody’s asking questions, trying to get the inside scoop on the keys to stopping (Auburn quarterback) Cam Newton, or what we’re going to do with him. It’s kind of overwhelming. You never want to give away too much. (Auburn is) probably reading press clippings.” See BCS / A7
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — On May 5, just after sunup, 750 militants surrounded Hawa Abdi’s hospital. Mama Hawa, as she is known, heard gunshots, looked out the window and saw she was vastly outnumbered. “Why are you running this hospital?” the gunmen demanded. “You are old. And you are a woman!” They did not seem to care that Mama Hawa, 63, was one of the only trained doctors for miles around, and that the clinic, school and feeding program she built on her land supported nearly 100,000 people, most of them refugees from the fighting and poverty that has afflicted this nation. See Somalia / A7