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Deepwater discoveryScientists have found the first fully warm-blooded fishthe opah.A2
coming yourway
Plus: Poordees —More than 40 percent of honeybee hives died over theyear. That's not the surprising news.A3
By Scott Hammers For the first time
Cuhgfuss —Action on NSA spying, trade and Iran.A2
By Abby Spegman
cost-of-living increases for emcalling the extra money "a solid ployees and a lower end fund balIn a budget year when educators step towards the right direction." ance than originally planned. and lawmakers agreed schools The Legislature approved $7.255 The budget committee voted on weren't getting enough, some good billion for K-12 schools for the 2015- the budget 'Ittesday; next it heads news came Thursday in the form 17 biennium but included a trigger to the school board. of the strong economic forecast that would send 40 percent of new Thursday's strong report does litthat will send about $105 million revenue to schools if the economy tletooffsetlosses districts acrossthe more to Oregon's K-12 schools. showed improvement in the May state are preparing for in the form Bend-La Pine Schools gave economic forecast.School leaders of higher retitement ooet. The state initial approval to a 2015-16 bud- statewide had said they needed at Supreme Court last month ruled get earlier this week that would least $7.5billion over the twoyears. some of the 2013 cuts to the Public cut teachers and raise class sizes. Bend-La P i ne's p r oposed Employees Retirement Systemwere Thursday's report means the dis- $151 million general fund bud- unconstitutional, and higher costs trict can revisit those cuts, accord- get called for cutting about four are expected to arrive in2017. ing to Brad Henry, chief opera- teachers, which would raise the SeeRevenue/A6 wrote in an email to The Bulletin,
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2016 —ABC newsmanis found to havedonated to the Clinton Foundation. Plus, Jeb Bush's definitive answer on invading Iraq.A4 All AgaS —The challenge of raising a babywhile doing time in prison.E1
tions and financial officer.
'Petiquette' —Knowthe
PIUS —Retiring with a pet.E3
since 2007, Oregon taxpayers could be receiving a "kicker" income tax rebate from the state.
Thursday, the state Office of Economic Analysis released its
latestprojections of tax collections, which cited strong economic
growth in predicting it's "highly likely" the state will end the two-year
budget cycle on June 30 with $473 million more than was forecast two
years ago. SeeKicker/A6
student-teacher ratio by about one
"This will allowus to direct more student in kindergarten through dollarsto our classrooms,"Henry second grade. It included lower
do's and don'ts, and the laws, on pets in public.E5
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Vietnam turns to old rival —Lls-
for weapons
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Bloomberg News
HANOI — Vietnam's
The Bulletin
The oldest structure in Deschutes County marked the end of an
arduous journey by wagon from the Willamette Valley to Central Oregon.
— The Agriculture
By Mary ClareJalonick
The Hindman barn
Department has de-
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON
and the Camp Polk
veloped a new government certification and labeling for foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients.
Meadow Preserve it sits on are about 5 miles
northeast of Sisters. It was built in the ear-
ly 1870s when High
USDA's move
Desert settlers were
traveling east across
comes as some consumer groups push for mandatory labeling of the genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. The certification
the Cascade Mountains
in search of gold or a suitable tract of land to Kelly Madden, a member of the Deschutes County Historic
military is going shopping.
Landmarks Commis-
Anxious about a more
sion, presented a timeline of events at the
assertive China on its doorstepand frictions over territory in the South Chi-
na Sea, officials in Hanoi recently hosted a group of foreigndefense contractors looking to sell the Communist nation everything
from radarsystems to night vision technology and aircraft.
The military's top officerswere notpresent because of the sensitivity
of hobnobbing with U.S. defense companies eight
is the first of its kind,
wouldbe voluntary — and companies would have to pay for it. If approved, the foods would be able to carry a"USDA Process Verified" label along with a
Andy Tullis/Ttte Bulletin
Deschutes Land Trust volunteer naturalist Kelly Madden, dressed in pioneer clothing, leads a "history walk"
historically significant through the historically significant Camp Polk Cemetery northeast of Sisters on Thursday morning. Below, a Camp Polk area during gravestone (with cause of death). Another in this cemetery is marked "cowboy kicked byhorse." a guided tour Thursday. The event was part of a series of opportunities to celebrate Historic Preservation Month in May. The 151-acre
meadow is part of the Deschutes Land Trust, which organized the event with the land-
marks commission. SeeHistory/A4
Historicalevents
Several more historical tours andevents will take place throughout DeschutesCounty this month. Tours of historic downtown Bendare held every Saturday and Sunday starting at10 a.m. at theBendVisitor Center.
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claim that they are
free of GMOs. Agriculture
•
Secretary Tom Vil-
sack outlined the new certification in a May 1 letter to
COMINGSATURDAY What's happening in Central Oregon for the rest of Historic Preservation Month?
USDA employees, saying it was being done at the request of a "leading global company," which he
days beforecelebrations
for the 40th anniversary of the defeat of America and its allies. But the meeting
shows how Vietnam's leaders are looking past ideology to practical realities. "There are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests,"
Alexander Vuving, a security analyst at the AsiaPacific Center for Security
Studies in Hawaii, said. Squeezed by slower U.S. military spending, defense firms are looking to South-
Sources: Oregon Department of Revenue; Oregon Office of Economic Analysis
soon tobe areal label
By Ted Shornck
raise cattle.
By John Boudreau
'Refund estimates based on 2013 tsx returns, a kicker amount of$473 million and forecast for tax liability.
'Certified' GMO-free
And a Web exclusiveThis is no sci-fi convention: Arms control advocates are rallying to prevent the very real development of killer robots. bentlbnlletin.cnm/extrns
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Anyone who filed a2014 Oregon personal income tax return would receive a refund this year because actual incometax collected by the state exceededthe final revenueforecast for the biennium. * Income Ref n nd
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Mystery ofchemicalexposureinIraq clears, abit By C.J. Chivers
theyhad been exposed to them. The military acknowledged the Since fall, the United States exposures after years of secrecy military has acknowledged that — and of denying medical trackU.S. soldiers found thousands ing and official recognition to of abandoned chemicalweap- victims — after an investigation ons in Iraq, and that hundreds by The New York Times. New York Times News Service
of troops notified the military
medical system they believed
Even then, the affliction of the members of the 2nd Platoon
copy of the letter was obtained by The Associated Press. A USDA spokes-
of the 811th Ordnance Compa- IR this state ny had quietly remained one of • Court overturns $85 million award the unsolved mysteries of the for sickened Oregonsoldiers, B2 Iraq War, and a parable of what
man confirmed Vilsack sent the letter
several of the victims describe
cation program. Vilsack said in the letter
the sickened soldiers have com-
as thecorrosive effects of the plained of health effects that government's secrecy on troop they say may be linked to hanwelfare and public trust. dling leakingbarrels. Since the incident, several of SeeChemical/A6
but declined to comment on the certifithe certification "will
be announced soon." SeeGMOs /A4
east Asian nations for
new markets, capitalizing on their concerns about China's outlays on longrange planes, ships and submarines. SeeVietnam /A6
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