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• Deschutes among the healthiest counties in Oregon; CrookandJefferson lag behind
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local brewers and ranchers, who use spent grain from the brewing process to feed
New data on smoking rates, obesity, poverty and other health factors highlight the large health gap among Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a Princeton, N.J.-based health care research organization,
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released its fifth annual county health rankings late last month. The rankings detail a variety of health
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Central Oregon's rankings for 2013 largely mirror past years: Deschutes
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County ranked near the top — healthiest — in Or-
and Jefferson County came in at the very bottom
for the fifth straight year.
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Health officials in Crook
and Jefferson counties said economic and social factors have played into their
low rankings.
COUNTY HEALTH RANKINGS2010-14 Rankings included 33 of Oregorfs 36 counties. Sherman, Gilliam and Wheeler counties were not included.
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FDA announced potential changes under the Food Safety Modernization Act that would require
Deschutes County has consistently ranked amongthe top five Oregon counties for overall health factors, according to data published annually by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. But Crook andJefferson counties have hovered among the bottom five, due to high child poverty and adult smoking rates, as well as economic conditions and other factors.
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To see howCentral Oregonand other areas performed in theannual Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health rankings, read the full reports at countyhealthrankings.org.
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dumb." A showdown with that senator's panel is expectednextweek, andthe
Republican chairman of a House oversight subcommittee saidthat it, too, would
investigate the program. An Associated Press
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By Manny Fernandez and Eric Schmitt
financed through a foreign bank. The project, which
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lasted more than two years
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and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba's stranglehold
KILLEEN, Texas — The troubled Iraq War veteran who
Hood would have undergone no security screening and passed through no metal de-
ing rampage at the base, it remainedeasy forasoldier and even a visitor to bring in a
The base's rules prohibit sol-
are doing so and state the rea-
diers from storing weapons in their vehicles, require firearms
son. The carrying of privately owned weapons on Army in-
tectors to enter the base, people
firearm.
to be kept in certain storage
stallations is prohibited unless
areas and mandate that all per- authorizedby the senior comsonnel who bring a privately mander. Violators face judicial owned firearm onto the base
or administrative penalties.
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to build a Cuban audience, mostly young people. Then, the plan was to push them
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