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Dugan considers applying to be Redmond’s top cop Person By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin
Former Deschutes County District Attorney Mike Dugan is likely going to apply for the Redmond police chief opening. The position came open after Ron Roberts resigned late last year to take the same position in
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Olympia, Wash. Since January, Dave Tarbet has held the position on an interim basis. Redmond’s department has about 50 employees. Dugan has about 35 years of experience as an attorney, more than two decades of that time in the county’s district attorney’s
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office. Becoming chief of police in Redmond would represent a shift from managing a team of lawyers to running a police force, but Dugan believes his management skills would translate. “It’s law enforcement, and I’ve been in law enforcement
for my entire career,” Dugan said. “It’s also local. It’s within the community of law enforcement that I’ve been a part of for 32 years.” The city is conducting the search by itself and expects to fill the position by spring. See Dugan / A6
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DA: ‘A number of steps’ must be taken before arrest is possible By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty confirmed Friday night that Bend resident Bret Lee Biedscheid is the “person of interest” described by the Bend Police Department in its investigation of a hit-and-run accident that killed a Bend man more than three weeks ago. Flaherty declined to discuss the investigation further, however, stating merely that there “are a number of steps that need to be taken” before an arrest is made. “We’re not rushing to judgment,” he said. On Feb. 1, Bend Police executed search warrants authorizing them to search a 2008 GMC Sierra and a home on Southwest Hollygrape Street owned by Bret Lee Biedscheid, 37, and Ellyn Craven Biedscheid, 34. Judge Michael Sullivan has signed an order sealing the findings of the warrant issued for the search of the home, which the couple bought in October 2006. Calls to the Biedscheid home were not returned Friday. Neither were calls to Portland lawyer Stephen Houze, identified by state records as their attorney. No one answered the door when reporters visited the Biedscheid home Friday. The crash, on the evening of Jan. 26, killed 48year-old Anthony “Tony” Martin, of Bend. Martin was struck by a southbound driver as he pushed his bicycle across Third Street a short distance north of Revere Avenue. The driver did not stop. Martin died at the scene. Police previously said they had identified a “person of interest” in the case, but had been unable to interview that person. See Hit-and-run / A6
By Nick Grube and Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin
On Jan. 11, 2010, Bend City Attorney Mary Winters sent a fourpage letter to Deschutes National Forest Supervisor John Allen about a money dispute. The U.S. Forest Service, which wanted to build an $8.3 million, 46,300-square-foot administration building on Deschutes Market Road, was negotiating to annex the property into the city and hook it up to the municipal sewer system. As part of the deal, the city was asking the Forest Service to pay more than $1.5 million for traffic improvements and various fees, including system development charges, or SDCs. The charges, which everyone building a new home or business must pay, help offset growth-related impacts on local infrastructure, like streets, sewers and water systems. The Forest Service refused, citing a federal law that bars local and state jurisdictions from taxing the U.S. government or imposing certain land use and building code regulations. This law, said the Forest Service, applies to SDCs, too. Winters, however, disagreed with this interpretation, and in her letter to Allen argued that SDCs are not a tax. She even referenced other cases where the courts have supported that distinction. See Fees / A6
From Wisconsin, signs of union unrest spread By Michael Cooper and Katharine Q. Seelye New York Times News Service
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Michael Mackie carves the figure of a small child out of a block of ice Friday evening while working on a sculpture that will be on display during Bend WinterFest. WinterFest continues in Bend’s Old Mill District today and Sunday. For information on events, prices, times and contact numbers, see calendar listing, Page B3.
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The unrest in Wisconsin this week over Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut the bargaining rights and benefits of public workers is spreading to other states. Already, protests erupted in Inside Ohio this week, where another • Wisconsin newly elected Republican goverDemocrats nor, John Kasich, has been seeknot budging, ing to take away collective barPage A2 gaining rights from unions. In Tennessee, a law that would abolish collective bargaining rights for teachers passed a state Senate committee this week despite teachers’ loud objections. Indiana is weighing several proposals to weaken unions. Public workers in Pennsylvania, who are not facing an attack on their bargaining rights, said Friday that they nonetheless planned to wear red next week to show solidarity with the workers in Wisconsin. See Unrest / A8
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Long a memorial, Auschwitz proposes telling larger story By Michael Kimmelman New York Times News Service
OSWIECIM, Poland — For nearly 60 years, Auschwitz has told its own story, shaped in the aftermath of the Second World War. It now unfolds, unadorned and mostly unexplained, in displays of hair, shoes and other remains of the dead. Past the notorious, mocking gateway, into the brick ranks of the former barracks of the Polish army camp that the Nazis seized and
converted into prisons and death chambers, visitors bear witness via this exhibition. Now those in charge of passing along the legacy insist that Auschwitz needs an update. Its story needs to be retold, in a different way for a different age. Partly the change has to do with the simple passage of time, refurbishing an aging display. Partly it’s about the pressures of tourism, and partly about the changing of generations. The
most-visited site in Poland, for Jews and non-Jews alike, needs to explain itself better, officials here contend. A proposed new exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum here, occupying some of the same barracks or blocks, will retain the piled hair and other remains, which by now have become icons, as inextricable from Auschwitz as the crematoria and railway tracks. See Auschwitz / A6
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“Our role is to show the human acts and decisions that took place in extreme situations here,” says Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.