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Local business leaders should know by tonight if flights from Redmond to Los Angeles will become a reality or slip out of reach. Economic development officials exceeded $301,000 Thursday afternoon in their effort to raise $350,000 in prepaid tickets and secure a daily flight from
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Redmond to Los Angeles through American Airlines. The fund drive stood at $253,000 late Wednesday. The deadline is 5 p.m. today to meet the goal, through what's known as an airline travel bank. Smaller, or "nonhub" airports, can recruit new flights by selling tickets in advance to show an airline there's adequate demand. Redmond hasn't had air service to
Los Angeles since Horizon Air ended its flights in August 2010. American Airlines is committed to starting service from Redmond Airport to Los Angeles International Airport in June, if area businesses show enough demand for the flight, according to Roger Lee, executive director of Economic Development for Central Oregon. SeeAirport/A6
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The sequester may turn out to be a good thing, at least when it comes to some Pentagon programs. It is forcing the military services to make hard choices
ANALYSIS they have avoided even thinking about while the money freely flowed to the Defense Department. The United States was at war and whatever programs the services called necessary got funded, with few questions and little oversight. Pentagon spending on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars totaled about $1.3 trillion, while an additional $5.2 trillion paid for Defense's "base budget." In 2001, the base budget was supposed to support two wars, but the George W. Bush White House set
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Jerry Scdoris, at back, takes off from the Sunrise Lodge at Mount Bachelor on a six-mile tour Monday morning with his sled-dog team, along with passengers Eleanor Schneider, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., andher friend, Glenna Dimmig, of Bend. Scdoris, of Alfalfa, is a professional musher and co-owner of Oregon Trail of Dreams, which provides hourlong or all-day dog-sled excursions. Look for more on sled-dog touring — and the people and animals involved in it — on Saturday, when The Bulletin will publish a special photo page.
Jesuits havehadtensetimes with theVatican By Frances D'Emilio
order had been pope. Previous popes have punished V ATICAN CITY — W h i l e t h e Jesuit theologians for being too proVatican has picked the highly disgressive in preaching and teaching. ciplinedJesuitsas advance men for The last pontiff, Benedict XVI, sent a planning papal pilgrimages and to polite but firm letter inviting the orrun its worldwide broadcasting net- der'sworldwide members to pledge work, the notion of a Jesuit pope is "total adhesion" to Catholic docstill being absorbed in the Holy See. trine, including on divorce, homoBeforePope Francis,no one from sexuality and liberation theology. the nearly 500-year-old missionary So,justwhatistheSocietyof Jesus,
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without having a business plan, the project's leader toldmembers of Congress Thursday "This is probably the largest telecom project in our history," said Sam Ginn, chairman of the board for the First Responder Network Authority. "It is going to be a massive, complex and challenging mission." After communications failures during the attacks on Sept. 11, the 9/11 Commission recommended the creation of the network, known as FirstNet. Last year, Congress passed legislation creating the government entity that will develop and build FirstNet, and allocated $7 billion in proceeds from broadband spectrum auctions to pay for it. Even though the project is only months old and has only gotten as far as assembling a board of directors, Rep. Greg Walden, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, convened Thursday's oversight hearing to get an early update on
progress and problems. Just because Congress passed the law authorizing FirstNet doesn't mean its involvement has ended, he said. "I am a firm believer that the work of Congress begins, not ends, when a bill is enacted into law," he said. FirstNet must cover everysquare meter ofthe country and penetrate into urban skyscrapers, Ginn sa>d. "We are starting from a blank sheet of paper. We have no milestones to measure our performance," he said. SeeFirstNet/A6
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priations for the fighting, a practice followed when President Barack Obama took office. Still, the base budget rose about $10 billion or more mostyears from 2002 to 2012. Billions of dollars were wasted on unsuccessful procurement programs and other overruns for ships, aircraft and other weapons systems, and space vehicles. See Defense/A4
The father of a 7-year-old suspended from his school in Maryland's Anne Arundel County for nibbling his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun filed a formal appeal Thursday, asking that the second-grader's school records be wiped clean of the offense. "The chewed pastry was not capable
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of harming anybody, even if thrown," says the appeal, addressed to Anne Arundel Superintendent Kevin Maxwell and Park Elementary School Principal Sandy Blondell. "It could not fire any missile whatsoever." The case, which is attracting national attention, came 11 weeks after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which left
20 children and six staff members dead. In the massacre's aftermath, sensitivitieshave been heightened about security and guns, even imaginary ones. In recentweeks, children have been suspended from school for pointing their fingers like guns and, in one case, for talking about shooting a Hello Kitty gun that blows bubbles. In several cases, the offenses were described in harsh
terms — one as a "terroristic threat" — and officials agreed, after appeals, to clearstudents'permanent records. In the Anne Arundel case, the son of William "B.J." Welch was suspended March 1 for two days after chewing his breakfast bar, akin to a Pop-Tart, and yelling, "Look Imade a gun," according to the appeaL See Guns/A4
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