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Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty has issued another subpoena in his inquiry into the release of county personnel records to The Bulletin, ordering Deschutes County assistant legal counsel Chris Bell to appear before a grand jury next week. The subpoena instructs Bell to appear Wednesday and to bring all documents concerning all
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public records requests made by The Bulletin to the county since 2002, as well as documentation of county protocols and policies with respect to records requests. Bell said he had a discussion with Flaherty on Friday in which the district attorney indicated Bell should bring only documents concerning the request of records kept by the county’s legal department. See Subpoena / A6
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Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty has subpoenaed nine county employees in an inquiry into the release of records.
Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty told county commissioners Thursday he’d like to move his staff into a new office, citing both space and security concerns. Flaherty addressed Commissioners Alan Unger and Tony DeBone during one of the commissioners’ quarterly meetings with county department heads.
Commissioner Tammy Baney was in Washington, D.C., on county business Thursday. The District Attorney’s Office has offices on the first and third floors of the Deschutes County Courthouse, which sits just north of the red brick Deschutes County Justice Center on Northwest Bond Street in Bend. Deschutes County Circuit Court is held in the justice center. See Office / A6
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Ex-lover says Bray often beat, reviled her
By Robert Pear New York Times News Service
By Sheila G. Miller
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Workers at a circuit-board factory here just saw their health insurance premiums rise 20 percent. At Buddy Zaremba’s print shop nearby, the increase was 37 percent. And for engineers at the Woodland Design Group, they rose 43 percent. The new federal health care law may eventually “bend the cost curve” downward, as proponents argue. But for now, at many workplaces here, the rising cost of health care is prompting insurance premiums to skyrocket while coverage is shrinking. As Congress continues to debate the new health care law, health insurance costs are still rising, particularly for small businesses. Republicans are seizing on the trend as evidence that the new law includes expensive features that are driving up premiums. But the insurance industry says premiums are rising primarily because of the underlying cost of care and a growing demand for it. Across the country, premiums have more than doubled in the past decade, with smaller companies particularly hard hit in recent years, federal officials say. See Premiums / A3
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huck Sterni’s sled dogs pull his sled to start a 150-mile race Friday morning at Wanoga Sno-park.
Sterni, who said the race was his longest to date, was scheduled to do 50 miles a day through Sunday with mandatory rests at Three Creeks and Edison Sno-parks. Sterni’s goal, he said, is to
qualify for the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Gates asserts new level of biting candor By Thom Shanker
need to protect troops. In recent speeches, he has rebuked miliWASHINGTON — This is the tary leaders, too, for clinging to season when defense secretar- ancient war-fighting concepts ies typically sit for hours, hat in — and, by ancient, he means before Sept. 11, 2001. hand, before congressional committees to A N A L Y S I S And he cited the painful experiences still plead for more monunfolding in Afghaney, and then journey to the military academies to give istan and Iraq to warn of grave perfunctory speeches about pa- risks if the military intervenes in the Muslim world, this time triotism before young cadets. But this year, Defense Secre- in Libya, using tones far more tary Robert Gates has not fol- grim than others in the Obama Cabinet. lowed the script. Even for a particularly outHe criticized members of the House of Representatives this spoken defense secretary, this week for spending money on Gates, unleashed, has reached Humvees that the Army does a new level of candor. Perhaps not want instead of buying sur- he feels liberated by the fact that veillance systems commanders he is retiring soon and leaving New York Times News Service
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Buddy Zaremba, of RAM Printing, a company that saw a 37 percent health insurance premium rise, in Manchester, N.H.
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will have to grapple Washington, a city, with two wars and he has said, “where so brisk budget-cutting many people are lost battles that for the in thought because first time promise to it’s such unfamiliar involve the Pentagon. territory.” It is a military that has Gates’ independence been at war for a reis a reminder that if he markable 10 years, and leaves this year — as he Defense with an all-volunteer has insisted he will — it Secretary force. For these and will kick off a search Robert Gates other reasons it is in that will be one of the the middle of profound defining decisions of the Obama administration. Will debates, including how technolthe president choose someone ogy is changing the very nature as outspoken, and whose bipar- of war. If his public comments of retisan pedigree allows him to criticize the conduct of combat cent months are any measure, and makes him acceptable to the he seems worried about how this will go when he steps down. opposing party? The next defense secretary See Gates / A3
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The request for the restraining order filed in December against the Bend man indicted Friday on rape and sodomy charges accuses him of beating and e mo t io n a l l y abusing a 27year-old California woman. Thomas Harry Bray, 37, Thomas was charged Harry Bray, a Monday with Bend anestwo counts thesiologist each of rape and part-time and sodomy, instructor along with at COCC, strangulation was indicted and fourth-de- Friday on rape gree assault. and sodomy According to charges. the Oregon Judicial Information Network, he was indicted Friday by a grand jury. Bray is a licensed anesthesiologist who most recently was employed as a parttime instructor at Central Oregon Community College, teaching one class of anatomy and function in the winter term. He is currently on administrative leave. But just 2½ months ago, Bray was ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from a California woman, as well as her home, job and Long Beach City College. The restraining order, which prohibits Bray from possessing firearms, is valid until June 13. Suma Mathai, an attorney with the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice, said restraining orders can be granted using a variety of evidence. “It’s whatever evidence that’s admissible in the California code,” she said. “Anything can get admitted. It could be testimony, it could be police reports, medical records, witness statements, photos of bruises. ... Some cases go based on testimony of the party or parties because there isn’t a whole lot of other evidence.” See Rape / A6
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