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Crawfest Day 2 of the 20-band music fest; listing onB2
Flea market Deschutes Dash Summerfest At Tumalo Feed Co.; listing onB2
Multisport benefit race; listing onB2
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Tour desChutes Multidistance cycling race; listing onB2
bendbulletin.com TODAY'S READERBOARD
MIRROR POND
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Tribes —The sequester is hitting especially hard in Indian
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By Rachael Rees NeW rabbi —Temple Beth Tikvah welcomes aleaderwho feels a"connection between spirituality and nature."D1
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Mt. Bachelor's 10-year expansion project is underway. Preparations for a new chairlift on the southeast side of the mountain have
By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
A title company asked to verify the claims of a family that purports to own the land beneath Mirror Pond said this week it cannot do so. For the last year, officials have said the land beneath the pond belongs to the heirs of Clyde McKay, who moved to Bend in 1911 and shaped development of the town. According to the family story, McKay kept theland under the Deschutes River, when property along the river was divided into lots. However, the story has proved difficult to substantiate the more people look into it. A search of Deschutes County Assessor's records turned up no evidence that the McKay family owns or pays taxes on land under the Deschutes River. The Bend Park & Recreation District and the city of Bend have not obtained deeds or otherdocuments toback up the McKay family's ownership claims. See Land/A5
begun. KOtek —State House Speaker says session was aboost for the housing market and higher education.C6
Chinese dogs —pet owners in Beiiing fear agovernment crackdown on large canines.A6
And a Web exclusiveWomen in Israel's parliament find that the simplest things
can be political land mines. bendbulletin.com/extras
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Are robots coming for workers?
Crews have startedconstruction on the initial trails of the downhill mountain bike park, and remodeling continues on the former guest services building in the West Village area. The building renovations, valued at more than $1.1 million, are expected to be finished in time for the upcoming season. After about four years of planning and environmental analysis, Mt. Bachelor, owned by Utah-based Powdr Corp., received approval to start construction in April. While snow remained on the ground, treeswere cleared to create a snowcat trail to the eventual loading area of the new lift, said Andy Goggins, director of marketing and communications. And in the next couple of weeks, he said, tree clearing to prepare for the new chairlift is expected to start. "A lot of the logging work hasn't begun yet," Goggins said. "We're working with the Forest Service to mark the run boundaries. After that, we will know more details on timing and the next steps." SeeBachelor/A5
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park, expected to open inSeptember, on AS Andy Tuths l The Bulletin
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young people from wealthy families — but can't seem to deliver to poor and middleclass kids. That is the alternatively optimistic and bleak picture of the domestic labor market sketched by economists Frank Levy of MIT and Richard Murnane of Harvard, who conducted a detailed study of what jobs have been lost to automation in recent years and which jobs are likely to be lost as technology keeps advancing. SeeRobots /A4
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technology displacing huge swaths of the workforce, thereremain huge classes of jobs that robots (and low-wage foreign workers) still can't replace in the United States, and won't replace any time soon. To land the best of those jobs, w orkers need sophisticated vocabularies, advanced problem-solving abilities and other high-value skills that the U.S. economy does a good job of bestowing on
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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder, who has been criticized for the Justice Department's aggressive tactics in secretly obtaining phone logs and emails of reporters as part of
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leak investigations, on Friday announced new guidelines that would significantly narrow the circumstances under which journalists' records could be obtained. A White House spokesman said President Barack Obama supported the Justice
inside • Leaker Edward Snowden seeks asylum in Russia,A2 Department's changes as well as its call, at the end of a report on the revisions, to more often find ways to deal with leaks of classified
information that fall short of criminal investigations. Under Obama, prosecutors have filed charges in seven leakrelated cases to date, compared with three such cases under all previous presidents combined. SeeJustice/A4
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Pond survey results set to be released By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
Bend Park and Recreation officials expect to share on Tuesday the results of an on-
line survey aimed at gauging public opinion on the future of Mirror Pond. Access to the online questionnaire closed Friday. The results are expected to be aired publicly at a joint meeting of the Bend City Council and the Bend Park 8c Recreation District Board of Directors. A late surge in participation pushed the number of completed questionnaires to more than 1,200, according to Jim Figurski, a consultant hired by the park district to help determine what to do about siltation in Mirror Pond. As recently as June 25 — about three weeks after the online questionnaire was activated — just 210 people had participated. SeeSurvey/A5
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