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The Oregon School Boards Association will file a request with the state Supreme Court asking to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a bill that altered the Public Employees Retirement System. Senate Bill 822 is being challenged by the PERS Coalition, a group of major state labor
chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the American FederationofTeachers and the International Association of Firefighters. The focus of their suit is on the bill's changes to the cost-of-living adjustment payable to PERS recipients and elimination of the tax remedy benefit for
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out-of-state benefit recipients who do not pay Oregon state income taxes. Both of these changes reduce the amount of benefits received by PERS recipients, thus lowering the amount of money dedicated to the program. The OSBA will oppose the challenge to these provisions in an attempt to uphold SB 822. The OSBA did not support
SB 822 in the Legislature on the grounds it did not do enough to reform PERS and reduce the cost of the program. The PERS system is currently estimated to have an unfunded liability of $14 billion. In a statement to members, OSBA President Betsy Miller- Jones explained the OSBA decision to intervene to protect the bill. SeePERS/A4
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from left, Marty Farrell, Paul Webb and Dale Kee, set up wooden forms Thursday afternoon in preparation to pour concrete along the eastbound lane of Reed Market Road at Teakwood Drive on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON — At the Pentagon and CIA, they are known as "countermeasures," the jargony adaptation of Newton's Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The U.S. Army in Iraq jammed cellphones to counter deadly roadside
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The first stage of the Reed Market Road project is expected to be completed at the end of the vid Abbas. "At that point we'll transition from stage one to stage two." The first stage, which shut the road down from S.E. Newberry Drive to S.E. Shadowood Drive, involved construction of bike lanes and sidewalks and a landscaped stormwater swell. That portion of the road is expected to be open in early September. Concrete was used during the section's road construction after the city had a lifecycle cost analysisdone,which determined concretewould need less maintenance and upkeep over the span of30
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years, Abbas said. Stage two, which is expected to begin in early September, will shut the road down
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from S.E. Shadowood Dr. to S.E. Orion Dr. Stage two is expected to be complete by mid-November. The three-stage project is funded by a $30 million 2011 bond measure approved by Bend voters.
First stagesof ReedMarket Roadconstruction nearcompletion The first stage of the first phase of the city of Bend's reconstruction of Reed Market Road was scheduled to be finished today, with crews finishing up sectionQ, Newberry Drive to the west side of Shadowood Drive. Section 0, Shadowood Drive to the west side of Orion Drive, is scheduled to begin next week and be finished Nov. 15. Section0, Orion Drive to Camelot Place, is slated to begin in February.
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gence agency. (He won't say which one or share the email the agency sent him because he's so concerned about it.) His latest gadget, to be sent to customers Sept. 20, is a metallized fabric case that he says shields a cellphone from electronic poaching by the government, byphone companies, by whomever. SeePrivacy/A4
The Jefferson County Emergency Medical Services chief died Wednesday due to complications from a crash involving a Prineville man with multiple driving violations, including license suspensions. Heckathorn D ona l d "Don" Heckathorn, of Madras was 64. The crash occurred on U.S. Highway 97 on Aug. 8. Heckathorn was riding his 2012 black Harley Davidson north on the highway atabout 3 p.m. A 1996 white Cadillac sedan driven by Gerald Scott Green, 36, allegedly failed to stop at a stop sign on Dover Lane and drove into Heckathorn's path. Heckathorn's motorcycle collided with the passenger sidefrontfender. Gr een was not injured in the crash. An air ambulance lifted Heckathorn from the site and took him to St. Charles Bend. His lungs had collapsed, he had head damage, multiple broken bones and he had bruised his heart, according to his son Marc Heckathorn, a captain in the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. SeeChief /A4
month. "We're looking to wrap up right around the holiday (Labor Day)," said project manager Da-
Osama bin Laden switched to carrier pigeons al-Qaida communications. And Adam Harvey revved up his assembly line to foil — or at least critique — the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' phone recordsinthe name of counterterrorism. Harvey is an artist and privacy advocate in New York. His "privacy protection" creations, which include "anti-drone garments" that he says thwart thermal imaging cameras, have attracted the attention of guerrilla fashionistas and at least one intelli-
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WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times eachyear since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secretdocuments. Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. emails and telephone calls. SeeNSA/A4
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