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two sides can come to an agreement in time to put a measure on the November The Bend C it y C o uncil a g reed ballot. "I think it's more likely we would get Wednesday night that the lodging and tourism industries are too divided on a the increasepassed in November," said proposed 2 percentage point hotel tax Mayor Pro Tem Jodie Barram. increase to put the issue to voters on A proposal from hotel operators on the May ballot. the board of Visit Bend, the city's offiSome councilors said they hope the cial tourism promotion agency, would The Bulletin
increase the city hotel tax rate from 9 percent to 11 percent. That would raise an additional $590,000 for tourism marketing and $250,000 for the city general fund in the first year, according to an estimate from Visit Bend. Most of the additional tax revenue would pay for a marketing campaign to attract more visitors from Northern California
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Tulane University officials were preparing to send statistics to U.S. News 8 World Report for its annual graduate school rankings when they noticed something peculiar in early December: sharp drops in admissions test scores and applications to their business school. Their curiosity became alarm and then embarrassment, as the New Orleans university discovered and disclosed that the business school's admissions figures from previous years had been falsified. Soon afterward, Bucknell University in Pennsylvania announced that for several years it had reported inflated SAT scores for incoming students. These and similar revelations in the past year have come from Claremont McKenna College in California, Emory University in Atlanta and George Washington University in the District. In each case, the
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A magnitude 9 earthquake off the Oregon Coast would l eave coastal towns devastated, the Willamette Valley in ruins and Central Oregon in position to help with the recovery, according to a draft report compiled for state
lawmakers. The Oregon Resilience Plan, nearly 300 pages, outlines whether the state is preparedfor a massive earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone, a 600-mile-long, offshore fault where one plate of the Earth's crust is slipping under another, and what the aftermath
would be like. For more than 300 years the fault has been dormant; it could be due for an earthquake of the same scale as the huge 2011 quake that hit Japan. An earthquake of that magnitude could cause $32 billion in economic losses and leave as many as 10,000 people dead, with the damage and death toll focused along the coast and in the Valley. SeeQuake/A5
On the Web To see thefulldraftOregon Resilience Plan go onlinetohttp://j.mp/YUYWIX.
tion Wednesday, although there was no clear consensus on how to rescue the financially strapped agency. The cost-cutting measure, which would save the Postal Service $2 billion annually, would go into effect in August, U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced. Under the new plan, mail to post office boxes would still be delivered on Saturdays, as would packages, but delivery to streetaddresses would only occur on weekdays. The Postal Service generates the bulk of its revenue from selling postage and other services. With more people opting for email instead of firstclass mail, the Postal Service has been losing large amounts of money steadily for years. In 2012, the Postal Service was $15.6 billion in the red, and it continues to lose $36 million a day. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-ore., said the Republican-controlled House of Representatives "ignored their responsibility" when it did not pass a bipartisan postal reform bill approved by the Senate in Apri12012. That bill included provisions protecting rural post offices from closure and would have placed a two-year moratorium on abolishing Saturday delivery. "The U.S. Postal Service is an essential part of the fabric of life in Oregon, especially for seniors, small businesses and small towns," Merkley said in a statement. SeePostal /A5
20140lympia will be costliest, with or without snow By Kathy Lally The Washington Post
acknowledged that they had submitted incorrect test scores or overstated the high school rankings of their incoming freshmen. At a time of intense competition for high-achieving students, the episodes have renewed debate about the validity of the U.S. News rankings, which for three decades have been a kind of bible for parents and stu-
SOCHI, Russia — The Winter Olympics is just one year away, opening Feb. 7, 2014, so perhaps there's still time for the press people to figure out how to deal with journalists, for hotels to provide WiFi and for the organizers to turn
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rain into snow. Yes, it rained here this week — hard — and not just on the subtropical coast where enclosed ice rinks are frozen nicely, but up in the mountains 30 miles away. Oh, and the very top peak above the Roza Khutorresortwas closed for fear of avalanche.
Skiers and snowboarders coming down from lower elevations, at 4,900and 3,700 feet,wore raincoats over their parkas. Thirty-two degrees, and pouring. Maybe this is the Olympics where they'll run th e h alfpipe holding umbrellas. Whether it will snow has been
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an underlying concern of the Olympics, but one that has been brought firmly under government control because President Vladimir Putin, who loves to ski in Sochi, has decided these Games will show the real, modern, vibrant Russia to the world, snow included. SeeOlympics/A5
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