Bulletin Daily Paper 05-12-15

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TUESDAY May12,2015

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bendbulletin.com TODAY'S READERBOARD Executive File —with a Kickstarter boost, Bendcompany produces water bottles that collapse andexpand for maximum portability.CB

e mon ir o i s u e as cos more an

Construction on theCascade Lakes WelcomeStation is coming along, with anexpected finish date set for this fall.B1

"Everything's all there and

• City on hookfor $186Kfor lawyers(so far) and $343Kfortanksastrucewith Butlernears

taken care of," Butler general

By Beau Eastes

aviation-service provider. "The

The Bulletin

Information station-

IN SALEM

After racking up almost $200,000 in legal fees, the city of Redmond's yearlong dispute with Butler Aircraft appears to be nearing an end. Bothparties sayan agree-

ment that would keep Butler at the Redmond Airport for at

said he was directing city staff to negotiatea one-yearagree-

manager Kurt Newton said

ment with Butler, which pro-

about his company's application to remain the airport's

vides aviation services to the airport such as fueling and me-

only thing they're still trying to least the nextyear is close, a hash out is the lease agreement deal that would end Butler and (with KC Aero). That's up to KC Aero's multimillion-dollar the attorneys." lawsuits filed against the city in After last Tuesday's special February. (KC Aero subleases its City Council meeting, Redfacilities at the airport to Butler) mond Mayor George Endicott

Conflict brews on marijuana committee

chanical support. Last month,

By Taylor W.Anderson

the city extended its deadline for Butler to stop aviation

The Bulletin

servicesfrom May 26 to June 30, the first thaw in what had

tive committee in charge

SALEM — The legislaof regulating recreational marijuana before it becomes legal for adults July 1 has become splintered and is at risk of dissolving over changesto • Legislature the state's considers medical changes to marijuana clean fuels system. p rogram, Law m a k-

become a highly litigious battle between the two parties.

SeeAirport/A6

Curd appeal —Landscaping, decor help you put your home's best foot forward.D1

B1 • State

Plus: Time to till?Should you till your garden?D1

Senate votes to ban saleot e-cigs to minors,B3 • Govemor signs bill expanding

OSU AD resigns —oregon State University Athletic Director Bob DeCarolis announces he is stepping down.C1

ers on the

Joint Committee on

Implementing Measure 91 are split

over how much power city and

ernments background h ks BS banning medical marijuana dispensaries and processing sites with-

And a Wed exclusiveWest Point namesbarracks for an African-American graduate who was shunned. bentibunetin.cem/extras

in their boundaries

Some Democrats said during a hearing Monday

EDITOR'SCHOICE

that offering that power to

local governments would

Candidates steer clear of the term 'middleclass'

put patients in areas that

are hostile to marijuana at risk of losing access to their medicine, while other Democrats and all

Republicans said local governments needed control over the businesses. See Pot/A5

By Amy Chozick

Data is no longer a dlg wold in schools

New York Times News Service

Hillary Clinton calls

them "everyday Americans."Scott Walker prefers

"hardworking taxpayers." Rand Paul says he speaks for "people who work for the people who own businesses." Bernie Sanders

Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin

Two great horned owlets huddle together in their nest in Drake Park as a rainstorm passes through Bend early Monday afternoon. The owlets are believed to be two to four weeks away

talks about "ordinary

from fledging (flying away from the nest). Want to learn more about great horned owls? Visit

Americans." The once ubiquitous

www.dfw.state.or.us/species/birds/owls.asp.

term "middle class" has

By Motoko Rich

gone conspicuously missing from the 2016 campaign trail, as candidates and their strategists grasp for new terms for an un-

New York Times News Service

MEN O M O N E E FALLS, Wis. — In this small sub-

phrase, long synonymous

Western drought not confined to California

with the American dream, now evokes anxiety, an

By Alison Vekshin

attention, and rightly so," said

Bloomberg News

Roger Pulwarty, director of the

The record drought plaguing California isn't limited by lines on amap. Arid conditions caused by dwindling rainfall

National Integrated Drought Information System at the ¹

settled economic era. The

uncertain future and a lifestyle that is increasingly out of reach. The move away from "middle class" is the rhetorical result of a critical

shift: Afterthreedecades of income gains favoring the highest earners and job growth being concentrated at the bottom of the pay

and snowpack are stretching

across the West. In Washington's Yakima Valley, popular for growing wine grapes andbeer hops, officials were scheduled to cut

most of the West, dry conditions are expectedto persist." Climate change has led to longerand more frequentw ater shortages inrecentyears. Nine of the 10 warmest years since 1880 have been since 2000, ac-

for three weeks starting Mon-

cordingto NASA, diminishing

a precarious place to be. A social stratum that

day. At Lake Mead, east of Las Vegas, a 130-foot white band

mountain snowpacks — includ-

oncesignified asecure,as-

lines canyon walls as water sinks to the lowest since the

pirational lifestyle, with a

house in the suburbs, children set to attend college,

reservoir was filled in 1937.

"Californiahas gotten the

ingin California and Nevada's Sierra Nevada range — that supply most of the water in the Western U.S.

SeeDrought/A6

escapes the rigorous deunder bathroom sinks, while the high school cafeteria supervisor tracks parent and student surveys of lunchroom food preferences. Administrators record

ic Administration. "Across

off water to about 1,700 farmers

no one inthe Menomonee Falls School District mands of data. Custodians monitor dirt

tional Oceanic and Atmospher-

scale, the middle has for millions of families become

urb outside Milwaukee,

monthly tallies of student

disciplinary actions, and teachers post scatter plot diagrams of quiz scores on classroom walls. Even kindergartners use brightly colored Sam Hcdgson l Bloomberg News file photo

The Hoover Dam stands in Nevada, where outside of California, drought conditions are at their worst. That state is followed by Ore-

gon and Washington, said Kelly Redmond, a regional climatologist at the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno.

dots on charts to show

how many letters or short words they can recognize. See Data/A5

retirement savings in the

bank and, maybe, an occasional trip to Disneyland now connotes fears about

falling behind, sociologists, economists and political scientists say. See Middle class/A4

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