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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Vincent Pina finally saw a couple of utility trucks coming down his street Thursday and started to wave in anticipation. But they just cruised past his house and kept on going. He hung his head in resignation. "The thing that gets me the most is that there is no flood damage. I don't have any branches down. I have no wires down," saidthe Long Islander, who put a handpainted sign out front that read: "Still No Power." So why, he wondered, was it taking so long to get electricity? A week and a half after Superstorm Sandy slammed the coast and inflicted tens of billions of dollars in damage, hundreds of thousands of customers in New York and New Jersey are still waiting for the electricity to come back on, and lots of cold and tired people are losing patience. Some are demanding investigations of utilities they say aren't working fast enough. An angry New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined the calls for an investigation Thursday, ripping the utilities as unprepared and badly managed. "Privately I have
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Friends of Oregon Badlands Wilderness members Dan Shoop, from left, Holly Anderson and Bob Grochow, all of Bend, Etzel Stripp, of Redmond, and executive director David Eddleston (far right) work on trail signs in the Badlands on Wednesday.
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mall project by small project, over the past five years the Friends of the Oregon Badlands Wilderness have tidied up the wilderness area east of Bend. "We've done a p proximately 9,000 volunteer hours," said David Eddleston, executive director for the Bend-based group. Projects include removing trash, clearing fallen trees from trails and installing signs. Volunteers have pulled invasive weeds and planted native vegetation, and removed more than 10 miles of old barbed wire fence. "We do a lot of trail maintenance and trail patrol," he said. The Badlands have about 40 miles of trails weaving through old juniper an d v o lcanic r o ck formations. While proud of the accomplish-
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SALEM — House Republicans chose Rep. Mike McLane, of Powell Butte, on Thursday as their leader for the upcoming legislative session. The move came after a closed-door meeting that lasted all afternoon. McLane, 47, will be the only House ReI publican east of the Cascades in a leadership position. "It certainly
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ments of the group, which is seeking to become a nonprofit, Eddleston said there is still plenty more to do in the Badlands. That includes about 15 more miles of fence to remove and putting up m ore boundary m a r kers. T h e fence is a remnant from when the land was mainly used for grazing. The group predates the Bad-
lands Wilderness itself. The group started in 2007 and the wilderness was not designated by Congress until 2009. The wilderness covers 29,000 acres of mainly flat, sandy ground about 16 miles from Bend. Recreation i n t h e Ba d l ands includes hiking, horseback riding and hunting, said Gavin Hoban, wilderness specialist for the Bureau of Land Management in Prineville. The Friends of the Oregon Badlands Wilderness has made the Badlands a more welcoming place to recreate by erasing vandalism
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" They've hauled ou t . . . l o t s and lots of debris that has been dumped," he said. The volunteersalso report new problems and potential projects around th e w i l derness, Hoban said, helping the agency manage the land. See Badlands/A5
"We've done approximately 9,000 volunteer hours. ... We do a lot of trail maintenance and trail patrol."
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Sculptors usean unusualm edium: guns By Sudarsan Raghavan The Washington Post
MAPUTO, MozambiqueWhenever GoncaloMabunda looks at his sculptures, he wonders if any of his materials killed his uncle, a government soldier who was shot to death during Mozambique's 15-year civil war. The sculptures are made from the rifles that fueled the conflict. "Portions of my family, my neighbors, they all died in the war," said Mabunda, 37, glancing at a sculpture made out of a rusting AK-47 and a helmet that hangs on his wall.
"How many people were killed with these weapons? This might be the one that killed some of my relatives." Mabunda is one of dozens of artists in this southern African capital who are transforming weapons into sculptures, playing a role in preventing a resurrection of violence and instability in Mozambique. The sculptures have attracted international attention, with pieces shown in galleries in New York, Osaka, London and other cities. See Sculpture/A4
In Congress, pressure ison to reacha budget deal By Jonathan Weisman
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voice at the table SALEM when folks discuss what legislation will move," McLane said. The CentralOregon delegation, he said, will "continue to work as a team" on key priorities, such as advocating for the necessary funding to turn Oregon State University-Cascades Campus into a four-year university. Two sesslons ago, McLane was crunching numbers and was known as the "budget guy." In the February 2012 abbreviated session he successfully lobbied for a bill preserving a tax exemption for Facebook's data center in Prineville. The bill garnered attention across the state. Another bill McLane sponsored, which pushed for drawing more water out of the Columbia River, was at the center of a debate between the two parties. See McLane/A5
An artist in Mozambique works on a sculpture made from weapons that were Used in that country's civil war. Carlos Lituto For The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Senior lawmakers said Thursday that they were moving quickly to take advantage of the postelection political atmosphere to try to strike an agreement that would avert a fiscal crisis early next year when trillions of dollars in tax increases and automatic spending cuts begin to go into force. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he had begun circulating a draft plan to overhaul the tax code and entitlements, had met with 25 senators from both parties and "been on the phone nonstop since the election." Sen. Olympia Snowe, RMaine, who will retire at the end of the year, made it clear that she intended to press for a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff and get serious on the deficit, lame duck or not.
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