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Federal grant may mean more flights out of Redmond
Audit: State overpaid jobless by $32.6M
By Erik Hidle The Bulletin
By Lauren Dake
A $500,000 federal grant awarded to the Redmond Airport has the region's largest airport preparing to board flights for Los Angeles. The competitive U.S. Department of Transportation grant will assist the city in developing new flights from the airport. A study conducted earlier this year by aviation consultants Mead & Hunt found high demand in Redmond for flights to Los Angeles, a destination the airport hasn't serviced since 2010. "It was offered by Horizon (airlines), and as I understand it did quite well," said airport director Kim Dickie. "But they pulled the flight in 2010 when they changed their business (plan)." Now the airport hopes to entice an airline to return service to Los Angeles, or perhaps to nearby John Wayne Airport in Orange County. "The $500,000 is to help (a prospective) airline with startup costs and provide them with a revenue guarantee," Dickie said. "That would help supplement them for a time if they are not operating in the black:' See Airport I A6
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SALEM -A state audit released Wednesday showed the Employment Department overpaid $32.6 million in unemployment benefits, some of which will likely not be recovered. "It's money that is actually paid by businesses in Oregon toward unemployment, so it's very important the money is well spent," said Gary Blackmer, .llml. director of the secretary of state's audit division. The overpayments are only IN 1 percent of the $2 .3 billion paid out by the agency last year, and agency SALEM officials said fixes have already been made to decrease the number of overpayments for the next fiscal year. The audit was what the state calls an "information technology audit," which examines the software controlling the state's major expenditures to ensure it is functioning accurately. Of the amount overpaid, it took longer than six months to discover that $23 million had been misspent. About $6 million, the audit found, would likely never be recovered. "During this Great Recession, unemployment benefits have been a lifeline to so many Oregonians," Secretary of State Kate Brown said in a statement. "Still, it's important for the Employment Department to minimize overpayments and to set up sound procedures for collecting that money to protect taxpayers and businesses." See Audit I A6
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Thousands line up in hope of gaining U.S. work permit
Montana tribe divided on tapping oil-rich land
By AmyTaxin The Associa ted Press
By Jack Healy New York Times News Service
BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION, Mont. - The mountains along the eastern edge of Glacier National Park rise from the prairie like dinosaur teeth, their silvery ridges and teardrop fields of snow forming the doorway to one of America's most pristine places. Yes, there is beauty here on the Blackfeet reservation, but there is also oil, locked away in the tight shale thousands of feet underground. And tribal leaders have decided to tap their land's buried wealth. The move has divided the tribe while igniting a debate over the promise and perils of hydraulic fracturing, or tracking, in a place where grizzlies roam into backyards and many residents see the land as something living and sacred. All through the billiardgreen mesas leading up to the mountains are signs of the boom. Well pads and water tanks dot the rolling hills. Tractor-trailers loaded with chemicals and drilling machinery kick up contrails of dust along the reservation's winding gravel roads. S ee Oii i A6
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icki O'Halloran, left, and Sarah Gribionkin, both of Bend, run along the shoulder of U.S. Highway 20 west of Sisters on Wednesday morning.
O'Halloran started running on Aug. 1 north of Portland and plans to cover 11.3 miles each day until she reaches the Oregon-California border. She was
in a car accident in which she was texting while driving, and is running to call attention to the issue. Gribionkin, a friend of O'Halloran's, is training for a half marathon and was accompanying her on the day's run. O'Halloran is looking for sponsors for her and her crew, and donations to the TXT L8R campaign. For more information, visit the Facebook page www.facebook.com/RunOregonTxtL8r.
As U.S. sounds alarm, Hezbollah operates with few limits in Europe By Nicholas Kulish New Y ork Times N ews Service
BERLIN - As American officials sound the alarm over what they call a resurgent threat from the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, thousands of its members and supporter s operate with few restrictions in Europe, raising money that is funneled to the group's leadership in Lebanon.
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Washington and Jerusa lem insist that Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed terrorist organization with bloody hands, and that it is currently working closely with Tehran to train, arm and finance the Syria n military's lethal repression of the uprising there. Yet, the European Union continues to treat it foremost as a Lebanese political and social movement.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. - Nathaly Uribe has all the papers she needs to get a work permit - something the 17-year-old daughter of a construction worker only dreamed of growing up as an illegal immigrant in the United States. The high school senior said she hopes a federal program beginning Wednesday that defers deportation for illegal immigrants will make it easier to get a decent job and help pay for college. "This is my country. It's where my roots are," said Uribe, who moved from Chile when she was a toddler and lives in Glen Burnie, Md. "It feels great to know that the country that I call home is finally accepting me." Thousands of young illegal immigrants lined up Wednesday hoping for the right to work legally in America without being deported. The Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals could expand the rights of more than 1 million young illegal immigrants by giving them work permits, though they would not obtain legal residency here or a path to citizenship. See Immigrants I A5
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As Israel heightens fears of a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear sites, intelligence analysts warn that Iran an d Hezbollah would respond with attacks of their own on targets abroad. Israeli a nd American officials have attributed the Bulgarian bus bombing last month that killed six people, including five Israeli tourists, to Hezbollah and
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Iran, saying it was part of a clandestine offensive that has included plots in Tha iland, India, Cyprus and elsewhere. While the group is believed to operate all over the Continent, Germany is a center of activity, with 950 members and supporters last year, up from 900 in 20 lO, according to official reports. See Hezbollah I A6
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