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Stroke therapy —Research is raising new doubts about a popular form of treatment that aims to snatch a blood clot from a patient's brain and restore vital blood flow before
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Tren s aremixe or Juniper Go Course Interim chief By Leslie Pugmire Hole The Bulletin
Winter has been a mixed blessing for Juniper Golf Course this year. The number of rounds played at the Redmond municipal course plummeted during a record cold snap in
January, but a serious marketing effort brought more than 30 events to its clubhouse in December alone. "This business is so weather-dependent," said Steve Bratcher, Juniper general
manager. "Early January was so cold the ice and snow
would just not melt, then it warmed up and we hit our greens number." That kind of roller coaster ride is familiar to managers of the 60-year-old course, which over the decades has suffered fire, eviction and, most recently,fiscalwoes severe enough
to require a city bailout. "The last numbers I saw showed Juniper was holding its own," said Redmond Mayor George Endicott. "If that trend continues we'll eventually get to the point we won't have to help them." SeeJuniper /A4
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Gun rights —Support for background checks is
By Ben Botkin
gathering bipartisan steam.
The Bulletin
Also: A profile on Harry Reid, a gun-owning Democratic leader
Tom Anderson, the interim Deschutes County administrator, wants to drop the "interim" part of his title. Anderson, temporary chief executive since Oct. 29, said he plans to apply for the permanent position. Anderson's interest in the job will give county officials an internal candidate who has worked for the county since 1998. The County Commission announced Wednesday it has started seeking applicants for the job, which has been without a permanent administrator since the commission fired Dave Kanner in August 2011. Kanner was paid just under $157,000 annually at the time. "It's all been very interesting work and a wide variety of tasks and something that I feel that I have done an adequate job and would like to continue," Anderson said Thursday. Anderson started working for the county as a senior management analyst and operations manager in community development before his promotion to community development director in 2005. This is the county's third attempt to fill the top job since then. It failed to find viable candidates in a first pool of applicants in March 2012. On the second try, two candidates got offers in fall 2012. One withdrew and the other failedto reach an agreement with the county. See County/A4
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In Salem —Gunowners rally at the Oregon Capitol.B3
In businessnews —A brighter future for U.S. trade, but more bad news for the Postal Service.C6
And aWedexclusiveThe most powerful man inChina has a secret Internet admirer. Is the Great Firewall of China
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And Captain Jonny's no average joe. The former commercial fisherman has traveled the country by bus for 17 years, selling fish that he buys in bulk from large coastal seafood processors. "I'm a sailor on the highway," he said Friday.
By Randy Tucker Cox Newspapers
DAYTON, Ohio — Smokers hoping to breathe a little easier under health care reform, which prohibits insurers from discriminating based on health conditions, might get choked up when they discover the tobacco penalties included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The federal law, which prevents health insurers from rejecting people with pre-existing conditions, still allows insurers to charge higher premiums based on risk factors such as age, location and family composition and tobacco use. And tobacco use carries the heaviest penalties, allowing insurers to charge premium rates as much as 50 percent higher for smokers than non-smokers under the law. "Why smoking?" asked Nathaniel Kesting, a 33year-old Bellbrook, Ohio, student. "If you smoke,
somebody's always trying to tax you. I don't know much about the health care law, but I thought it was supposed to be affordable. Isn't that the name of it? Why do they want to tax smokers and nobody else'? I think there's a little bit of discrimination there." SeeSmokers/A5
His "Red Dog" bus, parked temporarily on a lot near the Bend Walmart on U.S. Highway 97, is a former Montana school bus that holds around one and a half tons of fish (before, he drove an old Portland transit bus). Captain Jonny plans to sell fish in 5- and 10-pound quantities in Bend for a week before hitting the Photos by Joe Kline/The Bulletin
road again.
Supporters maketbe casefor a secret dronecourt By Scott Shane New York Times News Service
Since 1978, a secret court in Washington has approved national security eavesdropping on U.S. soil — operations that for decades had been conducted based on presidential authority alone. Now, in response to broad dissatisfaction with the hidden bureaucracy directing lethal drone strikes, there is an inter-
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est in applying the model of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court — created by Congress so that surveillance had to be justified to a federal judge — to the targeted killing of suspected terrorists, or at least of American suspects. "We've gonefrom people scoffing at this to it becoming a fit subject for polite conversation," said Robert Chesney, a law professor atthe Univer-
sity of Texas. He said court approval for adding names to a counterterrorism kill list — at least for U.S. citizens abroad — "is no longer beyond the realm of political possibility." A drone court would face constitutional, political and practical obstacles, and might well prove unworkable, according to several legal scholars and terrorism experts. But with the war in Afghanistan
Court approval for adding names to a counterterrorism kill list — at least for U.S. citizens abroad - "is no longer beyoncf the realm of political possibility." — Robert Chesney, University of Texas law professor winding down, al-Qaida fragmenting into hard-to-read offshoots and the 2001 terrorist attacks receding into the past, they said, it is time to consider
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