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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
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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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